December 2003 - Vol. 46 No. 12

Features

Opinion Editorial pointers Dec 1 2003

Much was expected from mobile commerce by now. The move from mortar to modem was to be the prelude to the next step of conducting business(es) wirelessly. What happened?…

Diane Crawford

Architecture and Hardware

News News track Dec 1 2003

News Track

South Korea’s three leading telecom firms, major credit card companies, and several banks have combined efforts to enable Koreans to pay for goods and services by…

CACM Staff

Computing Applications

Opinion Forum Dec 1 2003

Forum

I found Erickson’s and Siau’s article "E-ducation" (Sept. 2003) an eloquent but alas typical example of the inadequacy of many technological…

Diane Crawford

Computing Applications

News Nominees for elections and report of the ACM nominating committee Dec 1 2003

Nominees For Elections and Report of the ACM Nominating Committee

In accordance with the Constitution and Bylaws of the ACM, the Nominating Committee hereby submits the following slate of nominees for ACM’s officers. In addition…

ACM Nominating Committee

Computing Applications

Opinion Digital village Dec 1 2003

Malware Month

August 2003: SoBig, W32/Blaster, and the malware month of the millennium.

Hal Berghel

Computing Applications

Opinion Security watch Dec 1 2003

Standards Insecurity

Standards can provide an important component in the computer security environment but they should not be relied on blindly.

Rebecca T. Mercuri

Computing Applications

Opinion Viewpoint Dec 1 2003

Enforce Pola on Processes to Control Viruses

Applying the Principle of Least Authority on processes, instead of just on people, limits damage from viruses and worms.

Alan H. Karp

Computing Applications

Practice Mobile commerce opportunities and challenges Dec 1 2003

Introduction

Through the late 20th and early 21st centuries, technologists, vendors, and users alike have been searching for the next great wave in computing. The 1980s could…

Andrew Urbaczewski, Joseph S. Valacich, and Leonard M. Jessup

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Mobile commerce opportunities and challenges Dec 1 2003

Mobile Commerce: What It Is and What It Could Be

Just a few years ago, many pundits proclaimed that m-commerce had arrived, and would shortly provide unprecedented commercial functionality to the masses [2, 5]. Cell…

Thomas F. Stafford and Mark L. Gillenson

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Mobile commerce opportunities and challenges Dec 1 2003

Understanding Mobile Handheld Device use and Adoption

Without device adoption, there is no mobile commerce.

Suprateek Sarker and John D. Wells

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Mobile commerce opportunities and challenges Dec 1 2003

Mobile Commerce at Crossroads

Lessons learned from an international study of users of mobile handheld devices and services.

Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa, Karl Reiner Lang, Yoko Takeda, and Virpi Kristiina Tuunainen

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Mobile commerce opportunities and challenges Dec 1 2003

Information Requirement Elicitation in Mobile Commerce

Using an interactive approach to facilitate information searching for mobile users.

Jun Sun

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Mobile commerce opportunities and challenges Dec 1 2003

Interface Design For Mobile Commerce

Understanding the unique characteristics of m-commerce to enhance and improve the user interface.

Young Eun Lee and Izak Benbasat

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Mobile commerce opportunities and challenges Dec 1 2003

-Understanding Usability in Mobile Commerce

Ramifications for wireless design: 'e' ≠ 'm'.

Viswanath Venkatesh, V. Ramesh, and Anne P. Massey

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Mobile commerce opportunities and challenges Dec 1 2003

Designing Mobile Commerce Applications

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

Peter Tarasewich

Architecture and Hardware

Practice Mobile commerce opportunities and challenges Dec 1 2003

Evolution of Mobile Location-Based Services

Utilizing user location as a key determinant of information requirement needs.

Bharat Rao and Louis Minakakis

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Dec 1 2003

Using Data Mining to Profile Tv Viewers

Mining thousands of viewing choices and millions of patterns, advertisers and TV networks identify household characteristics, tastes, and desires to create and deliver…

William E. Spangler, Mordechai Gal-Or, and Jerrold H. May

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Dec 1 2003

Systems Requirements For Organizational Learning

To produce organizational memory, knowledge management systems must transform individual knowledge into organizational knowledge, sometimes grudgingly.

Jim Q. Chen, Ted E. Lee, Ruidong Zhang, and Yue Jeff Zhang

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Dec 1 2003

Mobile Data Communications in China

Despite hundreds of millions of paying mobile subscribers and enormous potential for many more, the key to prosperity is enticing them to pay for extra services like text…

Xu Yan

Architecture and Hardware

Research and Advances Dec 1 2003

A Relationship Perspective on It Outsourcing

A longitudinal study at four companies provides valuable insights about the evolution of IT outsourcing relationships.

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Dec 1 2003

A Method For Developing Dimensional Data Marts

Decision-oriented dimensional data marts are fundamentally different than transaction-oriented relational databases. A distinctive methodology and a different set of…

Tim Chenoweth, David Schuff, and Robert St. Louis

Computing Applications

Research and Advances Dec 1 2003

The Relationship Between Distributed Systems and Open Software Development

The behavior and performance of OSD is best appreciated as a distributed system.

Coskun Bayrak and Chad Davis

Architecture and Hardware

Opinion Inside risks Dec 1 2003

The Devil You Know

Question: What’s worse than buggy software? Answer: Patches and upgrades that make things even worse. This is a dilemma critical to many applications. How should we…

Lauren Weinstein

Computing Applications