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The Linkcell Construct and Location-Aware Query Processing for Location-Referent Transactions in Mobile Business

The Linkcell Construct and Location-Aware Query Processing for Location-Referent Transactions in Mobile Business
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Author(s): James E. Wyse (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Copyright: 2009
Pages: 12
Source title: Handbook of Research on Innovations in Database Technologies and Applications: Current and Future Trends
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Viviana E. Ferraggine (UNICEN, Argentina), Jorge Horacio Doorn (UNICEN, Argentina)and Laura C. Rivero (UNICEN, Argentina)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-242-8.ch027

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Abstract

The technologies that enable the transactions and interactions of mobile business are now as ubiquitous as any business-applicable technology that has emerged in recent decades. There is also an exploding base of literature with mobile business as its subject. The variety and volume of literature present a challenge to defining mobile business (m-business) in a way that differentiates it from other forms of technology-enabled business activity. For purposes here, m-business is held to be an extension of electronic business wherein transactions occur through communication channels that permit a high degree of mobility by at least one of the transactional parties. Within m- business, the distinct sub-area of locationbased mobile business (l- business) has recently emerged and is rapidly expanding (Frost & Sullivan, 2006). In l-business, the technologies that support m-business transactions are extended to incorporate location-aware capabilities. A system is ‘location aware’ when it senses a transactional party’s geographical position and then uses that positional information to perform one or more of the CRUD (create, retrieve, update, delete) functions of data management in support of a mobile user’s transactional activities (Butz, Baus, and Kruger, 2000). In their discussion of “location awareness”, Yuan and Zhang (2003) suggest that it “is a new dimension for value creation” applicable to an extensive variety of areas in which mobility is a salient characteristic: travel and tourism, commercial transportation, insurance risk/recovery management, emergency response, and many others.

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