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The development of mobile applications around a central software platform has been impacting the software industry. Software solutions are collaboratively built within a dynamic market, often requiring adaptation of software development processes. This trend has been broadly studied as Software Ecosystem (SECO) -- in the mobile platform domain, named as Mobile Software Ecosystem (MSECO). In this paper,...
This article identifies how IT organizational performance can be improved in a mobile enterprise through specific management activities within The Mobile IT Conversion Process, The Mobile Use Process and The Competitive Process. Based on a comprehensive model of mobile IT business value creation, we provide a modified model including organizational culture and change management concept and recommendations...
Using the social media services is becoming more and more popular nowadays. For companies and their employees, they communicate with customers and colleagues with the new ways of social media. More and more people tend to use mobile social media service at any time and any place but mobile virus and malware are dramatically increasing in frequency. The mobile social media has become a very popular...
Commercial advertisement dissemination is one of the most promising applications in self-organizing mobile social networks (SMSN). Lightweight incentives are essential to encourage the participation of mobile users, given that only a few users are voluntary due to limited resources in mobiles. However, existing incentives overlook dishonest behaviors of relays in overstating their costs for higher...
With the rapid growth of cloud computing, developing business applications on Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) systems is increasingly popular among industry companies. Various services are developed to support different business requirements on PaaS systems. However, to the best of our knowledge, currently there is no service that provides mobile social messaging services to enable users of their apps...
From an Internet service provider's prospective, the increasing popularity of mobile devices and broadband Internet has created new business challenges: more diverse competitions and more volatile customer behaviors. Therefore, to accurately respond to the changing customer demands, using big data to analyze existing and potential customers has become a trend among businesses in designing marketing...
Contemporary mobile devices have become universal and versatile tools that increasingly are used in sensitive application scenarios. They inevitably carry confidential information such as passwords, encryption keys, mission-critical company data, or location information in combat areas. In order to meet sophisticated security requirements, recent technology focuses on policy-oriented approaches that...
The vast development of mobile technologies has led to a competitive environment between the existing providers of telecommunication services in delivering their best offers to create customer values. Among their customers, postpaid subscribers have a distinguished position due to their exclusive characteristics which require special treatments from respective providers. This study aims to identify...
Infoblu Traffic for Expo is a mobile app for Android and iOS developed by Infoblu. It integrates real-time traffic information directly managed by Infoblu with third-party data: train and airline timetables, car parking etc. Such integration is enabled by the E015 digital ecosystem operating in Italy. This paper presents the innovative characteristics of this mobile app and provides a brief overview...
This paper highlights the importance of mobile business applications in the context of "Smart Rural Areas (SRA)". Therefore important aspects in the area of a mobile strategy, the definition of mobile software ecosystems and the conception of architecture and user interface are elaborated within the paper.
Human Sensor data, Internet of Things and Social media are producing massive amount of data unfeasible to be processed by traditional algorithms, due to the fact that their understanding require high level perceptual and abstraction capabilities. In this paper we provide insights about our experience in developing and applying Serious Games to solve data collection, refinement and processing problems,...
This paper deals with the target country, market and timing factors potentially influencing the transaction costs of a company in its international ventures, which are used as transaction cost proxies, based on “Determinants of Mobile Network Operators' Choice of Cross-Border Entry Modes”. In addition, they are assigned as corresponding hypotheses in order to test their effect on Zain Telecom's entry...
This study investigates airline passenger behavior by analyzing three types of travel data: passenger name record (PNR), share of wallet (SOW) and webtrends. First, PNR archives the airline travel itinerary for individual passenger and a group of passengers traveling together. Usually, passengers and their accompaniers are close to each other, such as families, friends, lovers, colleagues and so on...
The senior project course for engineering students has a vital role in enhancing the “learn by practice” education engineering students in any university. The senior project course is, usually, a two semester course. This short time frame, poses challenges for both students and faculty. Students have to achieve the outcomes of the project to a certain extent and the faculty has to manage, follow up...
Mobile value-added services have drawn the attention of researchers and practitioners recently, due to the rapid development of the mobile telecommunications market. Various mobile-based services and applications have therefore been introduced in order to satisfy mobile phone subscribers' needs. Facing intensive competition, service providers are eager to persuade mobile phone subscribers into using...
This paper presents the reengineering of the Computer Science (CS) curriculum according to market needs. The new ACM-IEEE Computing Curricula 2013 in context of changes is presented. Next, the situation in ICT industry in EU, lack of ICT specialists and methods of acquisition the information about required competences as well as some results are described. The main part of this paper is dedicated...
The concept of the “On-site Factory” consists in the temporary use of fully functioning mobile mini-factories or production cells at the site of consumption. This concept of a Mobile Factory is well suitable for situations in the construction industry with long distances and therefore high logistics costs. The advantage of this concept is not only the proximity to customers, but also the economic...
A mobile app is proposed for collecting data about damaged electrical equipment. I.e. location, description, pictures. This is an essential stage of reliable, coordinated and fast power outage management. The app runs on tablet computers and smart phones, and it is specifically intended for electric utility customers. The essential advantage of relying on end customers with respect to professional...
The introduction of bring your own device (BYOD) policy in the corporate world creates benefits for companies as well as job satisfaction for the employee. However, it also creates challenges in terms of security as new vulnerabilities arise. In particular, these challenges include space isolation, data confidentiality, and policy compliance as well as handling the resource constraints of mobile devices...
Due to advancement of technology and mainly Internet, the concept of marketing and selling of product has reached to a new level. Now-a-days, lots of companies rely on user reviews for launching their product. These reviews play an important role or companies to know how their product has been accepted in the market. But, today, thousands of reviews are generated for a product. Companies have to process...
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