| Mobility is perhaps the most important market and technological trend
within information and communication technology. With the advent of new
mobile infrastructures providing higher bandwidth and constant connection
to the network from virtually everywhere, the way people use information
resources is predicted to be radically transformed. Over the last years, a new
breed of information systems, referred to as mCommerce systems or mobile
information systems, has appeared to address this emerging situation.
In 2000, the IFIP 8.1 WG decided to look into establishing a task group
to look closer at this area, and the idea was adopted and extended by IFIP
TC8 the following year. After the arrangement of several workshop, this task
group has been the driving force behind the arrangement of MOBIS (IFIP
TC 8 Working Conference on Mobile Information systems) held in Oslo,
Norway, 15-17 September 2004.
The objective of the working conference was to provide a forum for
researchers and practitioners interested in planning, analysis, design,
construction, modification, implementation, utilization, evaluation, and
management of mobile information systems to meet, and exchange research
ideas and results. |
