TOURISM ORIGINAL SCIENTIFIC PAPER E. Christou Vol. 58 No 1/ 2010/ 7-18 Th e development of electronic travel services over the Internet has assisted greatly travel agents to better anticipate to changes in consumers' shopping behaviour as well as to changes resulting from socio-demographic profi les of consumers (Go, Van Rekom, & Teunissen, 1999; Bedard, 2000). For instance, the mounting averag...

This paper presents work-in-progress towards the development of an intelligent mobile agent-based e-marketplace system called InterMarket. InterMarket aims at enabling mobile access and automated trading in e-marketplaces based on integration of mobile agents and intelligent decision-making agents offered as an add-on component to a commercial e-marketplace platform. The paper overviews the pro...

X3D (Extensible 3D) is a standard description language for describing 3D scenes on the web environment and can be used to establish 3DVR e-commerce systems, such as virtual shopping malls. However, due to the CPU and memory limitations of mobile devices, the 3DVR e-commerce systems described by using X3D scene language cannot be used on mobile devices. This limitation delays the growth of 3DVR ...

This study explores factors significantly impact the acceptance of Wireless Internet via Mobile Technology (WIMT) in China. The results indicate that the acceptance of WIMT is related with factors of: perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, social influences, wireless trust environment, and facilitating conditions. It provides diagnostic insight into how different factors influence user in...

E-Commerce in least developing countries (LDCs) is believed to be non-existent because few businesses, especially Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) who are usually the vanguard of the LDCs economy, have adopted E-Commerce and even those that have, none have institutionalized the technology. Using structuration theory as a lens, this study attempts to provide an explanation as to what E-Commer...

Mobile devices and wireless technologies seem destined to make a large and continuing impact on our lives. Mobile devices especially have been widely used in the last few years, and recent developments in wireless technologies have provided some new solutions to connectivity problems. Wireless technologies provide a new channel for implementation of mobile payments systems, the potential of sho...

Mobile phone usage and its adoption have been growing at exponential rates. It is this exponential growth rate that has led many to predict Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) as the next major evolution of Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce). While M-Commerce comes rich with unique features, it is currently lacking in usage when compared to traditional e-commerce. There are many challenges that must be ...

M-commerce (mobile commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services through wireless handheld devices such as cellular telephone and personal digital assistants PDA. Today many people never leave home without their mobile phones. As content delivery over wireless devices becomes faster and scalable, there is wide speculation that m-commerce will surpass wireline e-commerce. M-commerce,...

Electronic commerce is a driving force for IT. Mobile agents provit from this development, and offer substantial advantages for certain electronic commerce applications in return. Yet, a number of criteria should be applied to electronic commerce applications to assess which areas are best suited for mobile agents. A major requirement to build confidence in mobile agent technology is the availa...