Section I. Mobile Commerce Systems and Handheld Devices -- 1. Fundamentals of Mobile Commerce Systems -- 2. Mobile Commerce Applications -- 3. Mobile Handheld Devices -- 4. Essential Mobile-Commerce Technology --

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A 2D barcode validation system for mobile commerce / David Kuo ... [et al.] -- Threshold-based location-aware access control / Roel Peeters, Dave Singelée, Bart Preneel -- Survivability enhancing techniques for RFID Systems / Yanjun Zuo -- Mobile agent based network defense system in enterprise...

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