Designing mobile commerce applications

Abstract

Exploring the importance and untangling the complexity of the notion of context.

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Index Terms

• Computer systems organization

  • Architectures

    • Distributed architectures

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

• Networks

  • Network properties

    • Network range

      • Local area networks

      • Wide area networks

• Software and its engineering

  • Software organization and properties

    • Software system structures

      • Distributed systems organizing principles