[AISWorld] TOC- International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications 2(2) and CFP

[Ada Scupola]

The contents of the latest issue of:
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> International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA)
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> Official Publication of the Information Resources Management Association
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> Volume 2, Issue 2, April-June 2010
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> Published: Quarterly in Print and Electronically
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> ISSN: 1941-627X EISSN: 1941-6288
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> Published by IGI Publishing, Hershey-New York, USA
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> www.igi-global.com/ijesma
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> Editor-in-Chief: Ada Scupola, Roskilde University, Denmark
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> Special Issue on Mobile Government
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> GUEST EDITORIAL PREFACE
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> Ibrahim Kushchu, Mobile Government Consortium International, UK
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> To read the preface, please consult this issue of IJESMA in your library.
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> PAPER ONE
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> Enhancing Complaint and Problem Management: Design and Evaluation of 
> an M-Service Using Pictures and Positioning
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> Gustaf Juell-Skielse, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
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> M-government is an emergent area for mobile applications, where 
> citizens and organizations can interact with government and municipal 
> agencies through mobile devices. One promising area for m-government 
> is complaint and problem management, where mobile applications using 
> the integrated functions of a cellular telephone can offer citizens 
> convenient ways of rapidly reporting problems. The problems reported 
> can then be effectively managed by the municipality using 
> state-of-the-art workflow techniques. Furthermore, the municipality 
> can inform citizens and companies of problems already reported or 
> addressed, which can be visualized through interactive maps. In this 
> study, a municipal e-service for complaint and problem management is 
> transformed into an m-service and put into operation in a Swedish 
> municipality. The experiences from developing the m-service comprise 
> of a suggested design and several identified challenges. Suggestions 
> for future research include the application of new technologies for 
> positioning and the adaptation of the m-service to new cellular 
> telephone models.
 > > > To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
> > http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=42988
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> > PAPER TWO
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> > M-Government for Education: Assessing Students' Preferences for 
> Mobile > Campus Services
> > Diana Ishmatova, Waseda University, Japan Yuri Fedotov, St. 
> Petersburg > State University, Russia
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>  The main challenges of studying user preferences are related to user 
> > uncertainty related to a lack of previous experience with 
> m-Government > services. This paper investigates user preferences for 
> potential > mobile campus services. It was conducted as a pilot survey 
> with the > goal to develop and test a measurement approach for 
> revealing > preferences for services that users haven't yet 
> experienced. The > dataset used in this paper is taken from a 
> contingent ranking survey > carried out in February 2008, involving 
> purposive sampling of third > year university students pursuing a 
> bachelor's degree at the Graduate > School of Management, St. 
> Petersburg State University. Numerical > estimations reflecting the 
> importance of services and content features > were derived using 
> ASPID-methodology (Analysis and Synthesis of > Parameters under 
> Information Deficiency), the main advantage of which > lies in its 
> ability to work accurately with different types of uncertain  
> information on weight-coefficients.
To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
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> > http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=42989
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> > PAPER THREE
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> > The Role of Choice in the Development of an M-Government Strategy in 
> > Turkey
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> > Ronan de Kervenoael, Sabanci University, Turkey and Aston 
> University, > UK N. Cakici, Gediz University, Turkey Duygu Guner, 
> Bahcesehir > University, Turkey
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> > Enhanced data services through mobile phones are expected to be soon 
> > fully transactional, interactive and embedded with other mobile > 
> consumption practices. While private services will continue to take > 
> the lead in the mobile data revolution, others such as government and 
> > NGOs are becoming more prominent m-players. This paper adopts a > 
> qualitative case study approach interpreting micro-level municipality 
> > officers' mobility concept, ICT histories and choice practices for > 
> m-government services in Turkey. The findings highlight that in-situs 
> > ICT choice strategies are non-homogenous, sometimes conflicting with 
> > each other, and that current strategies have not yet justified the > 
> necessity for municipality officers to engage and fully commit to > 
> m-government efforts. Furthermore, beyond m-government initiatives' > 
> success or failure, the mechanisms related to public administration > 
> mobile technical capacity building and knowledge transfer are 
> identified  to be directly related to m-government engagement likelihood. 

> To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
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> > http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=42990
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> > PAPER FOUR
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> > Evolution of Electronic and Mobile Business and Services: Government 
> > Support for E/M-Payment Systems
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> > Carl Adams, University of Portsmouth, UK Simon Mouatt, Southampton > 
> Solent University, UK
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> > Mobile business and services are playing an increasingly significant 
> > role in economic activity for nations. However, one of the > 
> prerequisites for successful electronic business activity is to have > 
> practical and acceptable mechanisms to conduct electronic > 
> transactions. In this paper, the authors identify weaknesses in the > 
> mobile and electronic payments markets, namely hyper-competition that  
> results in too much variation and lack of standards.
The paper gains insights from previous works on the government and > 
money nexus. The relationship between governments and money has > 
continued to evolve. The current global and electronic environment now > 
presents fresh challenges for the state, as payments extend across > 
national jurisdictions and deal with new types of services and > 
transactions. The paper provides the basis for developing theory to > 
fully capture and recognise the development of mobility in an > 
electronic and global market space and by identifying practical ways > 
governments can support the evolving mobile payments industry.
> > > To obtain a copy of the entire article, click on the link below.
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> > http://www.igi-global.com/Bookstore/Article.aspx?TitleId=42991
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> > For full copies of the above articles, check for this issue of the > 
> International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications (IJESMA) > 
> in your institution's library. This journal is also included in the > 
> IGI Global aggregated "InfoSci-Journals" database:
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www.infosci-journals.com.

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> > CALL FOR PAPERS
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> > Mission of IJESMA:
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> > The International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications > 
> (IJESMA) promotes and publishes state-of-the art research regarding > 
> different issues in the production management, delivery and > 
> consumption of e-services, self services, and mobile communication > 
> including business-to-business, business-to-consumer, > 
> government-to-business, government-to-consumer, and > 
> consumer-to-consumer e-services relevant to the interest of 
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academic educators, researchers, and industry consultants in the field.

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> > Coverage of IJESMA:
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> > Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited 
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> > following:
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> > .         Adoption and diffusion of e-services
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> > .         Business models for mobile services
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> > .         Conceptual foundations and theoretical frameworks of 
> e-services
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> > .         Differences between services and e-services
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> > .         E-banking
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> > .         E-government
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> > .         E-health
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> > .         E-learning
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> > .         E-libraries
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> > .         E-retailing
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> > .         E-services and business models
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> > .         E-services and competences
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> > .         E-services and entrepreneurship
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> > .         E-services and human resource management
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> > .         E-services and innovation
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> > .         E-services and knowledge management
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> > .         E-services and SMEs
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> > .         E-services and strategies
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> > .         E-services in the building industry
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> > .         E-services in the financial industry
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> > .         E-services in virtual worlds
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> > .         Internet-based companies providing e-services
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> > .         Issues related to e-services, self service, and mobile
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> > .         IT enabled self-services
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> > .         Mobile applications
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> > .         Mobile services
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> > .         Service science
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> > .         Telemedicine
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> > .         Transition from industrial to service and e-service economy
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> > .         Web-based portals offering different kind of services
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> > Interested authors should consult the journal's manuscript 
> submission > guidelines at www.igi-global.com/ijesma.
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> > All inquiries and submissions should be sent to:
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> > Editor-in-Chief: Ada Scupola at ada at ruc.dk
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