A survey of SMS based Information Systems <s> 2007 <s> Yellow Pages are directories that source information about various commercial organizations like their addresses, phone contact and other details. These are very useful and are used by individual and other business houses. Until recently, the only way to access these yellow pages directory information was to physically look into a huge hard-copy directory, which was not only laborious but also time consuming and required the user to be familiar with the organization of the directory. More recently, there have been IVR based contact centers that have been set up which can be used by the users to query information. While it is easier than browsing through the physical directory, it still has several pitfalls. The time spent on trying to get the information is quite long and at the end of enquiry one is not sure if one will get the information that one is looking for. In this paper, we propose a novel interface which enables accessing the yellow pages directory information on the mobile phone by sending a short message service (SMS). The central idea of the proposed method is to avoid any constraint on the way the user can query the yellow pages directory except that it be in natural English. The system, which uses natural language processing (NLP) techniques, understands the intent of the query and intelligently searches the yellow pages directory to retrieve information. This retrieved information is then sent back to the user in the form of a SMS. <s> BIB001 </s> A survey of SMS based Information Systems <s> 2007 <s> Classroom interactivity has a number of significant benefits: it promotes an active learning environment, provides greater feedback for lecturers, increases student motivation, and enables a learning community (Bishop, Dinkins, & Dominick, 2003; Mazur, 1998; McConnell et al., 2006). On the other hand, interactive activities for large classes (over 100 students) have proven to be quite difficult and, often, inefficient (Freeman & Blayney, 2005). <s> BIB002 </s> A survey of SMS based Information Systems <s> 2007 <s> Introduction SMS Banking is a Mobile technology that allows you to request and receive banking information from your bank on your mobile phone via Short message service (SMS). Individuals or corporate bodies can manage their bank accounts, check their account balances, perform check requests, money transfers, pay some bills, and perform other banking transactions using their mobile phones. There are two methods of SMS widely used in applications; they are the PUSH & PULL (Seylan Bank, n.d.). Push SMS is sending a message from an application (i.e. SMS Server in this case) to the Mobile Phone. It is a one way message. In other words, it's the mobile application (in this case, the SMS banking application) that initiates a message. An example could be a deposit alert, which alerts the user when a deposit is made to his/her account. Pull SMS is sending a request and obtaining a reply. This is a full duplex scenario where a user sends a request to the SMS banking application and the application replies with the information requested. An Example is when a user requests his bank account balance. The Need for SMS Banking The telecommunications industry worldwide has scrambled to bring what is available to networked computers to mobile devices (Schofield, & Kubin, 2002). Presently, the use of electronic banking is considerably high and as more and more users sign up for electronic-banking, the maturity as regards remote banking (i.e. banking outside the banking hall) is on the increase. With electronic banking, users can now conveniently carry out banking transactions, but this convenience cannot be achieved if the user does not have access to the internet, hence, in other words, the user cannot carry out a banking transaction while waiting for a bus, or perhaps while having lunch in a restaurant. With SMS banking, convenience can be achieved 24hrs a day. This is because a user has access to his mobile phone all day, at all times. So, to effectively achieve a truly convenient banking mode, a truly mobile mode of banking has to be explored, hence the need for SMS Banking. How SMS Works SMS stands for Short Message Service; it's a mobile technology that allows for sending and receiving text or even binary messages to and from a mobile phone. The relative ease of use of SMS makes it possible for a user to learn how to send SMS easily. More than 160 billion SMS are exchanged each month in European countries (Mavrakis, 2004). SMS use the GSM special signaling channel instead of the voice channel and is therefore a very reliable media channel. MAVRAKIS, 2004 identifies two types of SMS which can be classified by the origin of the message * Mobile Originated (MO): SMS-MOs' are sent from a mobile phone and could be sent either to another mobile phone (such when a mobile subscriber sends a personal message to another subscriber) or to a computer application that will process the message. * Mobile Terminated (MT): SMS-MTs' are transmitted to a mobile phone. They also could be sent by another mobile phone or generated by a computer application. The SMS processing computer applications usually runs on corporate servers that are connected to the SMS network through specialized connectors and gateways connected to the SMS Centers of mobile operators (Mavrakis, 2004). These servers are assigned short numbers instead of the traditional 10-digits mobile numbers. These numbers, also known as short codes are usually 4 to 6 digits long. These numbers are operator specific. Also, a premium fee (a fee other than the fixed rates for SMS) can be charges on these short codes; in other words, users would pay more for sending SMS to short codes. Data Mining In SMS Banking Due to the large number of users and the large amount of financial transactions expected to be carried out using SMS Banking, there is a need for methodologies of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). … <s> BIB003 </s> A survey of SMS based Information Systems <s> 2007 <s> In this paper details of development and applications of a navigation system known as GPS-GSM Integrator (G 2 I) are presented. G 2 I system consists of two modules namely In Vehicle Module (IVM) and Control Room Module (CRM). The IVM is micro controller based system equipped with Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver and Global System for Mobile communication (GSM) modem. The CRM consists of a Personal Computer (PC) and GSM mobile phone. Relevant software is developed for obtaining position information of vehicle. Drive tests are conducted with G 2 I system (in different modes) for cellular coverage area determination and for developing comprehensive digital reference Geographical Information System (GIS) maps in real time vehicle tracking. During these tests, the Received Signal Strength Indications (RSSI) of the cellular signal at various locations (latitude and longitude) in urban and rural regions are recorded and coverage area classification is done. The developed G 2 I system would be helpful for implementation of Location Based Services (LBS) of Third Generation (3G) communications. <s> BIB004
S8  Developed for natural language question-answer system, it applies effective ranking mechanism for relevance matching of different semantic interpretation with respect to information in RDF repository. S12 BIB001 Proposal of novel interface that enables users to access yellow pages. The central idea of the proposed method is to avoid any constraints on the way the user can query the yellow pages directory information on the mobile by sending a short message services. 2006 S13  The SMS based application for agriculture information system service has been designed for rural people. Users have to send only one SMS to the service center in order to avail any consultancy on crop-specific fertilizers and pesticides or places advance booking for agricultural commodities. S20 BIB002 The paper describes the development and trial of a SMS based classroom interaction system. S22 BIB003 SMS banking system elaborating need of a data mining, knowledge Discovery and Security and Privacy measures in application. S31 BIB004 Development and applications of a navigation system known as GPS-GSM integrator for real time vehicle tracking.