A s a preteen/teen in the early to mid-80s, I was an avid subscriber of comic books. My mostpurchased comic book was The Amazing Spiderman, as Spiderman was my favorite superhero. However, being African-American, I was also fond of the African-American super heroes, which at the time included James Rhodes — who served as Iron Man for a stint and Luke Cage (also known as Power Man) from the Powe...

This study investigates the adoption of mobile services across four different service categories. The adoption model underlying the study includes analysis of the motivational, attitudinal, social and resource-related influences on adopters' intention to use mobile services. Overall, the model explains 62-75 percent of the variance in " intention to use ". Two important findings stand out as ve...

Positioning service is one of Wireless Sensor Networks’ (WSNs) fundamental services. The accurate position of the sensor nodes plays a vital role in many applications of WSNs. In this paper, a 3D positioning algorithm is being proposed, using mobile anchor node to assist sensor nodes in order to estimate their positions in a 3D geospatial environment. However, mobile anchor node’s 3D path optim...

Service-Oriented architectures and Service-Oriented Computing are the most recent approaches aiming at facilitating the design and development of applications on distributed systems. The primary goal of this paper is to investigate how the construction of mobile services can benefit from the Service-Oriented paradigm. The paper provides an elucidation of the ServiceOriented architecture. A gene...

Mobile data services in combination with profluent web services are seemingly the path breaking domain in current information research. Effectively, these mobile web services will pave the way for exciting performance and security challenges, the core needto-be-addressed issues. On security front, though a lot of standardized security specifications and implementations exist for web services in...

While mobile handsets have always been heavily used for data communication most notably SMS and basic internet services like email and browsing, they are now beginning to be used increasingly often as platforms for accessing IT resources exposed as web services. However due to the resource constrains of smartphones and the often unreliable wireless connections it remains challenging to link the...

The fast pace of wireless networks and mobile technologies development has created vast opportunities for financial service providers to render their services via the mobile platform. However, the acceptance of financial mobile services, particularly the mobile payment is still marginally adopted. While most of the research efforts focus on the positive determinants that influence such innovati...

The next generation mobile communication system will be a service-driven developed system capable to realize the human-centric mobile convergence services. In this paper, we propose the next generation mobile convergence service business model creation methodology based on our previous research results (e.g., the 2SAP framework) on the next generation mobile services [1], [2]. To achieve this g...