Ubiquitous and Pervasive Commerce

Ubiquitous Computing for Electronic Business.- Supply Chain Management Standards in Ubiquitous Commerce.- Optimizing Business Processes by Automatic Data Acquisition: RFID Technology and Beyond.- RFID in Movable Asset Management.- Ubiquitous Services: Extending Customer Relationship Management.- The Business Value of Ubiquitous Computing Technologies.- Ubiquitous Computing, Customer Tracking and Price Discrimination.- The Design of Pervasive Retail Experiences.- Legal Challenges to Ubiquitous Commerce.- Thoughts on Retail System Design to Support Polimorphic Actions Among Clerks: That ll Be $20 But if you Buy two, I ll Knock off 10%.- Privacy Protection and RFID.- The Code of Fair Information Practices.- The ISTAG Maria Scenario.- Index.

Search Ubiquitous and pervasive commerce : new frontiers for electronic business (Computer Communications and Networks) Roussos G., Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., Secaucus, NJ, 2005. 194 pp. Type: Book Date Reviewed: Mar 28 2006 Ubiquitous computing (UC) applications can now be found in places other than science fiction books. As they are intended to be invisible, we need to look for them more carefully. The emergence of techniques for the ubiquitous and pervasive computing paradigm signifies a new wave in computing, one where technology loses its imminent visibility and blends with objects, locations, and even humans. Still in its inception, this movement is gaining momentum in different application areas. The commerce area, however, appears to have gone further than others. This volume presents a methodological overview of the new frontiers for e-business, discussing its past, present, and possible futures. When we look at e-business historically-- from 1951, when for the first time software was used to conduct business (by J. Lyons and Co., an example from the first chapter of the book), through the development of bar codes, to the current implementation of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags placed in products--we become aware of the amount of work and ideas that have been implemented or abandoned. In addition to the introductory part, the book has three other parts: "Technology," "Business," and "Society," with a total of 11 chapters that complement each other greatly. The "Technology" part of the book focuses on the supply chain management standards in ubiquitous commerce and on a couple of applications of RFID technology. The "Business" part discusses such topics as UC approaches to extending customer relationship management, customer tracking, price discrimination, and the design of pervasive retail experiences. The "Society" part focuses on the legal and societal challenges of the use of UC in commerce, as it will impose significant changes in the