A Comprehensive Approach for Mobile Shopping

Abstract

One of the major concerns in mobile applications is the processing power and memory. In the meantime when an application uses a lot of processing and memory it tends to reduce the battery life of the device. This is a primary concern for developing advanced algorithmic functions to be able to run inhand held mobile devices. In order to cater to the requirements of the people, the mobile applications are needed in such a way where it consume only a little amount in the device, but capable of using the high tech hardware power runs on the server side environment. Mobile Shopper or ”mShopper” is an application which provides a solution to the problems in the area of retail shopping by adhering to the above mentioned concept. It runs the user interfaces in the mobile device consuming low processing power, but delegates the tedious processing elements including retrieving bulk data, multiagent processing and result formatting to a remote server. The application provides an easy mechanism to do the day to day shopping which uses mobile technology to manage the shopping activities in a distributed, and service oriented environment with the support of multiagent technology. The main focus of the application is to provide easy mobile interaction to the customers in their day to day shopping experience. The system manages all the complexity of the internal overhead including identifying locations, filtering lists, product searching, etc. and provides a convenient User Interface to use simple Input / Output in order to feel a shopping experience beyond traditional means.