Mobile Commerce (M-Commerce) comprises applications and services that are accessible from Internet-enabled mobile devices. It involves new technologies, services, and business models. Whilst it is different from traditional e-Commerce it can also be considered as an extension of the same since, among other reasons, it makes e-Commerce in a modern way available to new application areas and to new customers. Mobile devices, such as phones or PDAs open the door to a great assortment of innovative applications and services. They go wherever you go, enable users to access the Internet at any moment under any circumstances, allowing access to several different services should they be necessary (e.g. looking for a nearby restaurant or gas station while walking down the street with friends and family). These emerging situations also imply avant-garde engineering requirements, as well as fresh development tools and methodologies.

The Internet has become an essential component in all aspects of everyday life regardless of location, the time of the day or environment. Along the same lines, even today, mobile phones and PDAs have become an indispensable part of daily routine as sources of all kinds of information and services and, especially, as a permanently available interface to our surroundings. Under this scenario, the number of mobile services available is constantly increasing and evolving towards manageable and practical applications. Tomorrow, they may very well turn into intelligent assistants capable of anticipating many of our wishes and needs; but, for all these changes to happen, key issues of interoperability, usability, security and privacy still need to be addressed under the special scope of mobile services and commerce.

This book comprises the papers presented at TAMoCo 2009. It covers such diverse areas of mobile commerce as context-aware mobile applications, Web services for mobile applications, mobile technologies in urban systems, mobile technologies for education, and autonomic computing and mobile commerce.

Acknowledgements

The organizers would like to express their gratitude to the authors for submitting their work to TAMoCo 2009 and to the program committee for providing such useful evaluations of the submitted papers. We would also like to thank the invited speakers and all the participants for their presentations and further discussion. We would especially like to thank all those people who collaborated in the event organization. Finally, we also want to thank IOS Press for their understanding and their valuable support in producing these proceedings.

TAMoCo 2009 Editors

Juan Enrique Agudo (University of Extremadura, Spain)

Cherif Branki (University of the West of Scotland, UK)

Brian Cross (University of the West of Scotland, UK)

Gregorio Díaz (University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain)

Frank-Dieter Dorloff (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

Guadalupe Ortiz (University of Extremadura, Spain)

Key Pousttchi (Universität Augsburg, Germany)

Martin Randles (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)

Mercedes Rico (University of Extremadura, Spain)

Héctor Sánchez (University of Extremadura, Spain)

A. Taleb-Bendiab (Liverpool John Moores University, UK)

Frank Teuteberg (University of Osnabrück, Germany)

Rainer Unland (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)