Designing an adaptation management framework for mobile payment

Abstract

With the advent of mobile networks and mobile devices,mobile payment has been attractive to many ecommerce users. However, due to mobility of users, payment services and mobile devices must be adapted to the new environment. In this paper, a personal assistant agent is presented for automatic and intelligent payment and a model is implemented for inference and making appropriate decisions. To evaluate the suggested framework, context data were collected from content providers and a mobile network operator. The obtained results confirm the efficiency of the method. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.