TAMoCo 2012 - Techniques and Applications for Mobile Commerce (TAMoCo)

Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) comprises applications and services that are accessible from Internet-enabled mobile devices. It involves new technologies, services, and business models. Whilst it is different from traditional e-Commerce it can also be considered as an extension of it since, among other reasons, it makes e-Commerce available, in a modern way, to new application areas and to a new set of customers. Mobile devices, such as smart phones or tablets, open the door to a great assortment of new applications and services. Location and other context information is used to tailor services according to the needs of the user. The number of mobile services available is constantly increasing and evolving towards manageable and practical applications, for private use as well as in an enterprise context.

The goal of TAMOCO is to bring together researchers and practitioners that work in different aspects of mobile services in the context of business applications. This includes the incorporation of web services and cloud-based services, autonomic mobile computing, and the integration and interplay with urban systems and other contexts. Additionally, application areas such as mobile learning and extended enterprise are covered.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

Analysis and Design of mobile web-service based applications
Design and programming techniques for web-service based systems
Applications of emergent self-organization
Autonomic middleware for mobile computing
Mobile learning theories
Games and simulation in mobile learning
Pedagogical and social issues in mobile learning
Collaborative, cooperative and contextual mobile learning
Measurement, control, and evaluation of urban infrastructure by mobile solutions
Integration of mobile solutions in urban infrastructure
Standards and norms for the design and application of mobile technologies and urban services
Languages and methods for mobile based information systems
Concepts and methods for evaluating problems and the usefulness of mobile technologies
Enabling technologies for ubiquitous systems
Security, privacy and legal issues
Tools, technologies and platforms for mobile applications
Implementation of autonomic behavior to support mobile computing and commerce
Governance models of mobile computation