As the number of mobile device users increases rapidly and exceeds that of PC users by a large margin, conducting business and services over these mobile devices, also known as mobile commerce is becoming very attractive and is expected to drive the future development of electronic commerce....

Advanced Topics in Database Research strives to provide comprehensive coverage of the managerial and organizational issues of database technology....

The unified modeling language (UML) has been adopted by the Object Management Group for use in developing object-oriented software systems, and has gained wide acceptance in industry....

This book is intended for researchers and practitioners who seek to understand the latest trends and development in information modeling....