2009-07-30

[Tccc] New Wiley book on Mobile Services now available

New book on Mobile Services (John Wiley & Sons, 2009) now available:

"THE FABRIC OF MOBILE SERVICES: SOFTWARE PARADIGMS AND BUSINESS DEMANDS"
S.Loeb, B.Falchuk, E.Panagos
John Wiley & Sons, 2009
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470277998.html

(also see: Amazon - http://bit.ly/V4Nxr )

Successful mobile services are located in many application realms. This book
makes a detailed analysis of the nature of mobile services in several
specific and highly topical verticals: mobile marketing, telematics, and
healthcare. It also examines underlying business and software paradigms of
mobile services. In addition, it provides the reader with a solid
understanding of 'who is doing what' in mobile services by covering advanced
new research in mobility, location-based services, mobile design patterns,
simplification, and multimodal interfaces.

* Delivers practical know-how and trade-offs for designing software
applications that reside on mobile devices.
* Provides insights into social networking services, user generated content
services, personalized location-based services and highly targeted context
aware (location aware) advertising.
* System Integrators/designers can strengthen their technical knowledge and
understand the future market trends for mobile software technology and
infrastructure in different mobile verticals (Telematics, Healthcare).
* Covers technical details about location-based services and other advanced
topics, including the business of mobile services.
* Discusses software and architecture impacts of: Publish/Subscribe systems,
mobile Grid and Agent-based paradigms, and Event-driven architecture.

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction.
1.1 Introduction.
1.2 Ubiquitous Computing and Next Generation Mobile Services.
1.3 The Mobile Web.
1.4 Emerging Mobile Services Environments - Network View.
1.5 The Mobile Device Environment.
1.6. Putting it all Together in an Example.
1.7 The Fabric of Mobile Services.
1.8 The Focus of This Book.

Chapter 2: The Business of Mobile Services.
2.1 The Ecosystem and the Value Chain.
2.2 Between Two Worlds.
2.3 Innovative Business Models.
2.4 Case Study: Personalized Navigation Devices.
2.5 Summary.

Chapter 3: Mobile User Location as a Services Enabler.
3.1 Introduction.
3.2 LBSs - The Killer Enabler.
3.3 Positioning Technology.
3.4 LBS Architectures and Middleware.
3.5 Search, Context, and Social Filtering.
3.6 Summary.

Chapter 4: Simplicity and User Experience.
4.1 New Services and User Experience.
4.2 User Centered Simplicity and Experience.
4.3 Methodologies for Simplicity and User Experience.
4.4 Case Studies: Simplifying Paradigms.
4.5 Summary.

Chapter 5: The Always-on Infrastructure Challenge.
5.1 Always-on Service Properties.
5.2 Architecting for Always-on Mobile Services.
5.3. Business Impact of Always on.
5.4. Data Management.
5.5. Summary.

Chapter 6: Underpinnings of Mobile Opportunism.
6.1 Managing Complexity and Opportunities.
6.2 Technologies supporting Opportunism.
6.3 Design of Opportunistic Systems - Examples.
6.4 Relevant Standards.
6.5 Summary.

Chapter 7: Design Patterns for Mobile Services.
7.2 Architectural patterns.
7.3 User Interface Design.
7.4 Distribution and resource management.
7.5 Event Notification.
7.6 Use Case: Voice-based Content Management.
7.7 Summary.

Chapter 8: Advanced Services of Today and Tomorrow.
8.1 Emerging Mobile Application Areas.
8.2 Advanced and Emerging Mobile Technologies and Services.
8.3 Getting Personal - What it Takes and Why it's Important.
8.4 Summary.

Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks.

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