Mcomerce
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications 5 (2006) 229–245 www.elsevier.com/locate/ecra
Transaction management for m-commerce at a mobile terminal
Jari Veijalainen a c
a,*
, Vagan Terziyan b, Henry Tirri
c
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland b Department of Mathematical Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland Received 16 June 2005; received in revised form 27 September 2005; accepted 1 October 2005 Available online 20 March 2006
Abstract Although there has been a lot of discussion of ‘‘transactions’’ in mobile e-commerce (m-commerce), little attention has been paid for distributed transactional properties of the computations facilitating m-commerce. In this paper we first present a requirement analysis for m-commerce transactions, a graph-based transaction model, and a Transaction Manager (TM) architecture for a wireless application that protects m-commerce workflows against communication link, application, or terminal crash. The application interface, modules and log structure, as well as a pilot implementation of this TM for the location-based application are presented. We further discuss other alternatives to design such a TM that together can be called ‘‘Ontological Transaction Monitor’’, which assumes also monitoring constraints related to security and privacy. Ó 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: M-commerce transactions; Terminal crashes; Mobile commerce; Workflows; Personal trusted devices
1. Introduction The main driving force for the rapid acceptance of small mobile devices is the capability to get services and run applications at any time and at any place, especially while on the move [1]. The experience from Japanese market shows that the most important factor is that the terminals are permanently carried around, and thus people can
Transaction management for m-commerce at a mobile terminal
Jari Veijalainen a c
a,*
, Vagan Terziyan b, Henry Tirri
c
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland b Department of Mathematical Information Technology, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Helsinki Institute for Information Technology and Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, Finland Received 16 June 2005; received in revised form 27 September 2005; accepted 1 October 2005 Available online 20 March 2006
Abstract Although there has been a lot of discussion of ‘‘transactions’’ in mobile e-commerce (m-commerce), little attention has been paid for distributed transactional properties of the computations facilitating m-commerce. In this paper we first present a requirement analysis for m-commerce transactions, a graph-based transaction model, and a Transaction Manager (TM) architecture for a wireless application that protects m-commerce workflows against communication link, application, or terminal crash. The application interface, modules and log structure, as well as a pilot implementation of this TM for the location-based application are presented. We further discuss other alternatives to design such a TM that together can be called ‘‘Ontological Transaction Monitor’’, which assumes also monitoring constraints related to security and privacy. Ó 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: M-commerce transactions; Terminal crashes; Mobile commerce; Workflows; Personal trusted devices
1. Introduction The main driving force for the rapid acceptance of small mobile devices is the capability to get services and run applications at any time and at any place, especially while on the move [1]. The experience from Japanese market shows that the most important factor is that the terminals are permanently carried around, and thus people can
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