Mobility is perhaps the most important market and technological trend within information and communication technology. With the advent of new mobile infrastructures providing high bandwidth and constant connection to the network from virtually everywhere, the way people use information resources for work and leisure is being radically transformed.

The rapid developments in information technology, particularly communication and collaboration technologies, are substantially changing the landscape of organizational computing. Workers in any business area are becoming increasingly mobile. Workers in more and more areas will be required to act flexibly within the constraints of the business processes of the company (or companies) they are currently working for. At the same time they will often want to use the same information technology to support their private tasks.

Over the last years, a new breed of information systems has appeared to address this emerging situation, referred to as mobile information systems. Specific applications are also being characterized as, among others, m-Commerce, m-Learning, and m-Business.

This book contains the proceedings of the second IFIP TC8 Working Conference on Mobile Information Systems which was held in December 2005 in Leeds, UK and sponsored by the International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP).

Mobile Information Systems II aims to:

· Clarify differences and similarities between the development of mobile and more traditional information systems.

· Investigate the organizational impact of mobile information systems.

· Investigate the 'e to m shift' , for example in m-Commerce relative to e-Commerce.

· Investigate mobile commerce applications combined with theadvantages of mobile communications technologies, the drivers of which have been identified as ubiquity, accessibility, security, convenience, localization, instant connectivity, and personalization.

· Evaluate existing and newly developed approaches for the analysis, design, implementation, and evolution of mobile information systems.

· Investigate technical issues and the constraints they impose on mobile information systems functionalities and design.

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Take Risks into Consideration while Job Dispatching.- Support of Smart Work Processes in Context Rich Environments.- The Difference is in Messaging.- Understanding the User Within the Innovation Spiral.- The European Mobile Data Service Dilemma.- On the Development of an Open Platform for M-Government Services.- A Methodology for Designing and Managing Context-Aware Workflows.- An Extensible Technique for Content Adaptation in Web-Based Information Systems.- Distributed Context Monitoring for Continuous Mobile Services.- Mobile-Web Services VIA Programmable Proxies.- Creating and Performing Scenarios.- Hotdesking.- Development of Location-Aware Applications.- Decoupling Design Concerns in Location-Aware Services.- Deployment and Use of Mobile Information Systems.- The Knowledge and the System.- Architecture for Multi-Channel Enterprise Resource Planning System.- Towards Mobile Information Systems.- A Multi-Actor, Multi-Criteria Approach for Technology Selection When Designing Mobile Information Systems.- Mobile Systems Development.- A System for Mobile and Wireless Advertising.- Privacy Challenges for Location Aware Technologies.- Seeking Answers to the Advanced Mobile Services Paradox.