E-government is a new approach followed by nations in providing better services to people and businesses. It increases the efficiency of departments, reduces the cost, streamlines the processes and thus provides several benefits to all stakeholders involved. In this paper, we describe a case study on the successful implementation of e-government in Dubai using Chan, Lau, & Pan’s (2008) e-govern...

This paper reports on preliminary research into a new type of automated market, namely a quote-driven market. The research aims to develop the necessary market protocols and infrastructure, and to investigate the impact of pre-set parameters on the effectiveness of the market in terms of liquidity, price volatility, throughput and profitability for the market participants. Quote-driven trading ...

A conceptual architecture for ambient assisted living is introduced as a contribution to the development of an ecosystem of products and services supporting active ageing. In order to facilitate understanding and better interrelate concepts, a 3-layered model is adopted: Infrastructure layer, Care and assistance services layer, and AAL ecosystem layer. A holistic perspective of ambient assisted...

Detergents are a viable method for earwax removal. Specifically, bile salts such as cholate and deoxycholate, work well for this function especially when placed in alkaline solution provided by sodium phosphate in the presence of 0.1 M sodium chloride. In vitro studies reveal these agents to quickly penetrate earwax, as visualized by yellowish color of the solution and lack of cohesion of the r...

In this paper, we propose a new protocol for wireless mobile ad hoc networks, which establishes a dynamic wireless mobile infrastructure. The proposed protocol, namely, the virtual base stations (VBS) protocol, mimics and maintains the operation of the conventional "xed infrastructure in cellular networks. In the VBS protocol, a mobile node is elected from a set of nominees to act as a temporar...

Automated health monitoring and maintenance of civil infrastructure systems is an active yet challenging area of research. Identifying appropriate applications for technology to assess the health and safety of structures is an important issue around the world. For example, current infrastructure inspection standards require an inspector to travel to a target structure site and visually assess t...

Today's technology plays a crucial role in the effective use of environmental information. This includes geographic information systems and infrastructures. The purpose of this research is to identify the way in which the Polish spatial data infrastructure (PSDI) supports policies and activities that may have an impact on the environment in relation to one group of users, namely urban planners,...

Corresponding Author: Gopalakrishnan, S. Department of ECE, PSNA College of Engineering and Technology, Dindigul, India Email: [email protected] Abstract: Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a frequent infrastructure less selfcoordinating network, in which each and every mobile node works as a source, destination and a wireless relay. Such pattern of wireless network is produced by dynamic mob...

In this paper we discuss the current status and existing potential of performing efficient and reliable e-commerce in one of the principal trade and transportation hubs of Southeast Asia, namely Hong Kong. We provide an overview of a number of components that are prerequisites for e-commerce. Telecommunications , broadcasting and new digital and interactive services (iTV) form an innovative alt...

Cloud computing is an architecture for facilitating computing service through the internet on requirement and pay per use access to a group of shared resources namely networks, storage, servers, services and applications, without physically acquiring them Cloud DBMS is a distributed database that gives computing as a service. It is sharing of web infrastructure for resources, software and infor...