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Ubiquitous and Pervasive Commerce

New Frontiers for Electronic Business

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Editors:
  1. George Roussos

    1. Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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  • First book to survey ubiquitous commerce
  • Adopts a holistic approach with contributions from researchers and practitioners with backgrounds in technology, business, law, economics and interaction design
  • All contributors have hands-on experience with ubiquitous commerce systems
  • Refers to true ubiquitous computing applications rather than re-branding the failed mobile commerce models as ubiquitous
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Computer Communications and Networks (CCN)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
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  2. Ubiquitous Computing for Electronic Business

    1. Ubiquitous Computing for Electronic Business

      • George Roussos
      Pages 1-12

  3. Technology

    1. Supply Chain Management Standards in Ubiquitous Commerce

      • George Roussos
      Pages 15-31

    2. Optimizing Business Processes by Automatic Data Acquisition: RFID Technology and Beyond

      • Gregor Hackenbroich, Christof Bornhövd, Stephan Haller, Joachim Schaper
      Pages 33-51

    3. RFID in Movable Asset Management

      • Matthias Lampe, Martin Strassner, Elgar Fleisch
      Pages 53-71

  4. Business

    1. Ubiquitous Services: Extending Customer Relationship Management

      • Anatole Gershman, Andrew Fano
      Pages 75-92

    2. The Business Value of Ubiquitous Computing Technologies

      • Elgar Fleisch, Christian Tellkamp
      Pages 93-113

    3. Ubiquitous Computing, Customer Tracking, and Price Discrimination

      • Alessandro Acquisti
      Pages 115-132

    4. The Design of Pervasive Retail Experiences

      • Panos Kourouthanassis, George Roussos
      Pages 133-153

  5. Society

    1. Legal Challenges to Ubiquitous Commerce

      • Olli Pitkänen
      Pages 157-165

    2. 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%

      • Tony Salvador, Kenneth T. Anderson, John W. Sherry
      Pages 167-176

    3. Privacy Protection and RFID

      • Simson Garfinkel
      Pages 177-188

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 189-194
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About this book

At the core of this book is the interplay between technological and business innovation and social practice. Although the bene?ts of 50 years of rapid advances in digital telecommunications and computing technology have not bene?ted everyone equally, they have nevertheless transformed almost every aspectofthewaywelive.Oneareawheretechnologyhashada clearimpactis in the way we conduct business. The rate of change that brings about mod- nity has been considerably strengthened by technological advances applied to product manufacturing, distribution, ?nancing, and management, which arguably form the substrate for globalization and consumerism. It is thus no surprise that businesses closely monitor advances in techn- ogy and invest considerable resources in exploring possible new applications and market opportunities. Yet, consumers’ acceptance of new ways of buying and selling depends as much on business and technology as on our society’s culture and the culture of the material environment that de?nes our values, sensibilities, and thus our commitments. Moreover, the rate of technological innovation is such that to the c- sumer, technology implementation is fully opaque.Nonetheless, opportunities to carry out commerce in novel ways also introduce risk to established - cial structures, conventions, and institutions. In modernity, risk management is one of the core functions of society and to be successful in this, societies depend on their trust of experts. Experts take risks on behalf of society and are responsible for evaluating the full extent of a particular set of hazards including those associated with a particular technology.

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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” partfocuses on the legal and societal challenges of the use of
UC in commerce, as it will impose significant changes in the way we do business.
In conclusion, this is an easy-to-read volume that will be of use to casual readers,
students, and researchers.
Reviewer: Goran Trajkovski Review #: CR132598
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