International Journal of Ad hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Computing ...

ISSN : 0976 ? 1764 (Online); 0976 ? 2205 (Print)
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Scope & Topics

International Journal of Ad hoc, sensor & Ubiquitous Computing (IJASUC) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of Ad Hoc & Ubiquitous computing. Current information age is witnessing a dramatic use of digital and electronic devices in the workplace and beyond. Ubiquitous Computing presents a rather arduous requirementof robustness, reliability and availability to the end user. Ad hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous computing has received a significant and sustained research interest in terms of designing and deploying large scale and high performance computational applications in real life.

Topic of Interest

Authors are solicited to contribute to this journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the following areas, but are not limited to

Ad Hoc Computing

* Ad Hoc Networks of Autonomous Intelligent Systems
* Addressing and location management
* Architectures, protocols, and algorithms
* Data management issues
* Distributed technology
* Mobile ad hoc learning
* Mobile and wireless ad hoc networks
* Mobile agents for ad hoc networking
* Network design and planning
* Novel Architectures for Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
* Performance Analysis and Simulation of Protocols
* Power-aware and energy-efficient designs
* Quality of service
* Resource allocation
* Security and privacy
* Self-configuring and self-healing schemes
* Services and applications
* Wireless & Mobile network Security
* Wireless sensor network

Sensor Networks

* Architectures, protocols and algorithms
* Data allocation and information
* Deployments and implementations
* Embedded, network-oriented operating systems
* Energy optimization
* Hardware aspects of sensor design
* Location management and placement
* MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks
* Middleware and software tools
* Modeling and Performance evaluation
* Radio Issues with other wireless/mobile systems
* Resource allocation, services, QoS and fault tolerance
* Scalability of wireless sensor networks
* Security and dependability issues
* Sensor circuits and devices
* Software, applications and programming
* Under water sensors and systems
* Visualization of sensor data
* Work models

Ubiquitous Computing

* Architectural structure, design decisions and philosophies
* Autonomic management of ubiquitous systems
* Context and location awareness, context based and implicit computing
* Distributed Computing
* Ubicomp Human-computer Interaction for devices
* Intelligent devices and environments
* Internet Computing and Applications
* Interoperability and large scale deployment
* Middleware services and agent technologies
* Personalized & special field applications
* Security Issues and Applications
* Service discovery mechanisms and protocols
* Software infrastructures
* System support infrastructures and services
* Ubiquitous systems and trust
* User interfaces and interaction models
* Virtualization over networks of devices
* Wearable computers and technologies
* Wireless networking and mobile, pervasive and ubiquitous computing
* Wireless/mobile service management and delivery
* Mobile Computing
* Network Protocols & Wireless Communication

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers for this journal through E-mail : ijasucjournal@airccse.org or ijasucjournal@yahoo.com. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this Journal.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline : 20 January, 2013
Acceptance notification : 20 February, 2013
Final manuscript due : 23 February, 2013
Publication date : determined by the Editor-in-Chief

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Avis to buy Zipcar as slow economy boosts car-share business

(Reuters) - Car rental company Avis Budget Group Inc will buy Zipcar Inc for about $500 million, surpassing larger rivals Hertz Global Holdings Inc and Enterprise Holdings Inc to become the No.1 player in the fast-growing U.S. car-sharing market.

The offer of $12.25 per share in cash represents a premium of 49 percent to Zipcar's Monday close. Zipcar's shares were up 48.8 percent at $12.26 on the Nasdaq on Wednesday morning.

"We see car sharing as highly complementary to traditional car rental, with rapid growth potential and representing a scalable opportunity for us as a combined company," Avis Chief Executive Ronald Nelson said.

Zipcar controls about 75 percent of the $400 million car-sharing industry in the United States. The total market is projected to reach $10 billion over the next several years, Nelson said on a conference call with analysts.

Higher demand for car sharing in the face of rising gasoline prices has also attracted traditional car rental companies such as Hertz and Enterprise.

Zipcar's business is at least five times larger than Hertz's and Enterprise's car-sharing businesses, Needham & Co analyst Kerry Rice said.

The deal will position Avis as the market leader in car-sharing services in the United States, he added.

Avis has been relegated to No.3 in the $22 billion U.S. car rental industry, after Hertz secured the No.2 spot with its acquisition of Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group in August.

Avis also bid for Dollar Thrifty in 2010, but later dropped out of the race.

Zipcar, founded more than 10 years ago, pioneered car-sharing services in the United States. Car sharing allows customers to rent cars at an hourly or daily rate and park in convenient reserved spots. Zipcar went public in April 2011 and raised about $174 million.

DEAL DRIVERS

The deal, expected to close in the spring of 2013, will add to Avis's earnings, excluding items, from the second year and is expected to generate between $50 million and $70 million in annual synergies.

Zipcar will operate as a unit of Avis and Scott Griffith will remain the unit's chief.

The company said it expects to fund the transaction primarily with available cash and additional debt. The company had cash and marketable securities of about $554 million as of September 30.

Zipcar has more than 760,000 members, or Zipsters, with a presence in 20 cities in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Citigroup is advising Avis while Morgan Stanley is advising Zipcar on the transaction.

Avis's shares were up 6 percent at $20.91 on the Nasdaq on Wednesday. Hertz shares were up 3 percent on the New York Stock Exchange.

(Reporting by Sagarika Jaisinghani and Tej Sapru in Bangalore; Editing by Supriya Kurane)

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Get Fit and in Shape For 2013 - Hot Beauty Health

by Diana Ajih on January 2, 2013

in health

The new year has arrived and getting the body you?ve always wanted is a common new year?s resolutions for most adults! Reaching this goal is difficult to achieve but if you can stick with it, you?ll do wonders for your health. To get fit and in shape for 2013, I?ve put together a guide filled with exercise & diet tips, healthy recipes, and fitness tools. This guide will help you get into that fitness routine once and for all.

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1. I like to listen to music when I workout and?Powerbeats by Beats by Dre?fits perfectly around my ears and delivers superb sound .

2. Yoga pants are a necessity for me when I?m headed to the gym or working out from home.

3. These Puma cross-trainers ?will help you move in any direction especially if you?re trying to get your Zumba on!

4. Make fitness in 2013 fun with a pedometer. This particular brand motivates you with games, goals, and even charity donations.

5. You?ll need a perfectly-sized workout bag to hold everything you need when heading to the gym.

6. Yogitoes make great yoga mats and this skidless version prevents slipping to enhance your yoga practice.

7. I receive this Bobble water bottle as a gift last summer and it?s amazing. The bottle comes with a filter and it?s 100% recyclable.

8. This Adidas Supernova Racer Bra is a quality sports bra and gives me all the support I need.

9. These resistance cords comes with a workout DVD so now you have no excuse for skipping exercise.

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Only connect: Favourite children's and teen books of 2012

?Once there was a girl / an all-alone girl / in her own little bed / in her own little room / in her own little castle / who didn?t have a dragon for a friend.??

This is going to be the saddest list ever. Nonetheless, here are the books for kids and teens that floated like jetsam past my desk this year....

Disclaimer: other more recent chapter books are embargoed because they are being considered for the CLA Book of the Year for Children and, as such, I cannot comment about them at this time.

1. Lovabye Dragon by Barbara Joosse: a lonely dragon with an overbite? What's not to love? See above.
2. Plant a Kiss by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (she of Duck! Rabbit! fame)
3. Sam et Julia dans la maison des souris by Karina Schaapman: This gem of a book is too beautiful to miss, even if you can't read the text. If you, like me, spent a childhood enraptured by dollhouses (my two favourites were the real-life one in Windsor Castle and the one in Beatrix Potter's The tale of two bad mice), this book is for you.
   
4. Oh No, Little Dragon! by Jim Averbeck: do I have a dragon thing? Perhaps! Little Dragon loses his fire-breathing ability when playing in the bathtub. Will he get it back? The suspense is killing me!
5. The Unforgotten Coat by Frank Cottrell Boyce: I did make a vague effort to stay current with international book awards news, and as a result read this winner of the Guardian children's fiction prize. An intriguing mix of Polaroids of unknown origin and a story about a mysterious immigrant family who are being pursued by a demon.
6. Howl by Karen Hood-Caddy: This book, and the next one on the list, are my under-appreciated underdogs from the 2012 CLA BOYCA reads. Howl actually appeared on our shortlist last year: this is a nuanced portrait of a young girl learning to cope with grief after the death of her mother, and a whole family's story of coming together to make something meaningful out of loss. Here's a review from Q&Q. ?????????????????
7. Saving Armpit by Natalie Hyde: In a world in which quality middle grade books are often few and far between, this is an overlooked solid Canadian title about a letter-writing campaign undertaken by a group of small-town children in order to save their local post office (and thus the postmaster, coach of their local baseball team). ??
8. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green: again, the hype penetrated my consciousness, and I had to pick this one up. Friends and colleagues disagree over this one: someone pointed out that teens don't talk like they do in this book (fair enough!) and someone else, like me, found this book both hilarious and tragic. For those who grew up with Lurlene McDaniel (oh yes, I went there!), this is how a book about a kid with a terminal illness was meant to be written. Green knocks it out of the park.
9. Grave Mercy: His Fair Assassin, Book 1 by Robin LaFevers: Meet your new Katniss.
10. Monoceros by Suzette Mayr: Technically published as an adult novel, but I am including it here because I feel it has a real audience with teens, especially as a year filled with truly tragic stories of teen suicides due to bullying draws to a close. This book has a passage, narrated by the victim's mother, of such utter beauty that I think it might well be one of my favourite scenes ever. As a truly Canadian story of a teen suicide, told from different perspectives, this is another under-appreciated title. Read a review here.?

Previous favourite children's book lists: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.
Previous favourite teen book lists: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

Source: http://ottawapubliclibrarian.blogspot.com/2013/01/favourite-childrens-and-teen-books-of.html

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juhanbotha59: Male Enhancement Pills: What Options Do You Have ...

With tons of male enhancement pills on the market, with each promising to be the best one to use, you get confused and may need some guidance. At this moment, you are scratching your head and thinking, ?what are the best natural male enhancement pills on the market?? Let us explore the selections offered.

What do you look for in male enhancement?

You can use the pills to enhance your performance in bed or as erectile dysfunction treatment. When hunting for the best way on last longer in bed, you need to look at some factors which include the effectiveness of the product, whether the results have been clinically tested and proven and the components. elements need to be natural so that you do not get side effects. The last thought is the price of the product. Let us look at some of the pills on the market.

VigRX Plus

This product does not contain any synthetic ingredients or bodily hormones, it is fully natural. It is the only product that includes Bioperine which makes it different from other male enhancement pills. The natural substances make it very safe to use as it does not have any side effects.

This at a clinically tested product and has been medically proven to be effective. This suggests you will be able to see visible benefits inside a short time of use of the pill. If it doesn?t work, then you will be given your money back within 67 days.

This product happens with many rewardes relying on the pack that you purchase. You will also be able to purchase this product online from the comfort of your home. You can talk to their customer support any time of the day. These male enhancement pills go for $40.83 for each bottle.

MaleExtra

Male extra is used as a dietary supplement that is used daily. No doubt from 100% natural substances, the product is free from any unwanted side-effects.

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The Retail Challenge: Getting Shoppers' Attention! | Business 2 ...

When we go shopping for anything from food, clothes or cars, we have a lot of choices, at times too many choices. Do we choose a brand that?s familiar to us or do we take a chance with a new one? How do we choose from all these different brands? and what do they do to set themselves a part from the rest?

With the many choices we have as consumers it?s easy to be overwhelmed ? throw in the towel on our decision making process and buy the already known rather than trying something new! But even if we want to try a new product, there are so many out there, we often don?t even know where to begin. Too many of POP materials and communications put out by brand makers talk about the feature of their product and totally forget to talk to the benefits ? in short, what?s in it for the consumer. Benefit-driven communications is the best way to speak to consumers. Is the brand more efficient? Provide time-saving or cost-saving?

In-store merchandising and point-of-sale (POS) mechanisms are crucial to make a connection with the consumer to drive both impulse and trial sales. To capture the consumer?s wandering eye, brands and retailers need to constant create new and innovative point-of-purchase (POP) to grab attention where and when in counts the most: in-store. Without these attention-getting on-shelf or in-store communication pieces, many consumers often overlook new products or specials and consequently buy familiar and already trusted brands.

Brand Marketers want to make sure that their brand doesn?t get lost in all the in-store option available to consumers. Here?s a quick check list to do just that:

1. Packaging: This is the most important brand POP. It is the piece that will keep on working where ever it is: on-shelf, in-store, in the pantry, in the home. It is all about originality! The brand package needs to carry the brand character, personality and voice and more importantly speak to its benefits.
2. POP: Using unique visual elements and colours that speak to the brand in order to draw attention to the product provides the necessary impact. Creating effective POP on-shelf that speaks to consumers will entice them to make the change. Using mobiles, shelf-talkers, on-shelf coupon generators, on-shelf digital messaging are only a few tactics that are available.
3. End Aisle Displays/ Check Out Displays: Using these in-store tactics are an effective way of making brands stand out. While consumers wait in line or turn the aisle, the ?one brand? shelving strategy definitely gets the desired effect. Couple this impact with the right benefit-driven message and brands will be sure to generate the much sought after impulse purchase.
4. Floor Graphics and Floor Stands: An effective and creative way to drive consumers right to products on-shelf is using floor graphics leading the way! Of course colourful floor stands filled with products are also effective and provide a solid ?real-estate? space, often away from the competitive products.

Effective POP helps snap consumers out of their routine. It engages them at the most critical purchasing moment and affects behavior to drive sales. All brand marketers must be sure to get this part right. It doesn?t matter how great an advertising campaign is? if consumers don?t find the brand on the shelf, the sale is lost. After all isn?t that what it?s all about?

Source: http://www.business2community.com/strategy/the-retail-challenge-getting-shoppers-attention-0365611

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Internet Marketing Rules Blog: Internet Marketing - Niche Marketing ...

On the internet, it?s tough to operate in a large market. You have so many competitors looking to get their message across, that your message may get lost in the clutter. To avoid this, it?s imperative that you do everything in your power to market your products in the right way ? so that you can gain a receptive ear.

But fortunately, there?s a form of marketing that allows you to reach a relatively large group of people, without spending alot of money, or struggle to get their attention. This form of marketing is known as ?niche marketing? Niche marketing is the process of dissecting a large niche, into a size where there?s only a small group of people who are looking for a very specific solution.

If I were you, this is where I would start. You can easily go and find these people a product or service that they are looking for, so that they can achieve their goals, or help to solve a problem that they?re going through. This will require a little bit of research and development, but in truth? it should take you no long than 2 days to gain an understanding of a niche, and what they are looking for at this particular point in time.

It doesn?t matter if you do paid advertising or free marketing ? the bottom line is that if you can?t get a steady stream of new prospects and customers into the door, you?re going to be out of business soon. This isn?t a game or a fantasy? this is reality. You should view your online business as a brick and mortar business. It?s THAT serious.

This is part of the reason why 95% of new online business owners this year will fail. They think that it?s going to be a cake walk to make money online because they get all consumed up in the hype that?s going on. But the fact of the matter is that, ?hype? will only cause you to wind up buying another product? instead of investing that money into productive means of your internet business.

So go into a niche, and be prepared for success. If one niche isn?t successful, don?t give up and quit, enter into another niche. One quick way to see if a niche is going to be responsive or not is if you run a quick PPC campaign. In this campaign, you should test whether or not a high portion of your advertising traffic will sign up to your opt-in newsletter on your squeeze page.

If they do, pursue with the niche. If it fails, test another niche. Now you don?t want to jump from niche to niche ? but you will want to get started in one niche, create frontend and backend products for it, and then let your email autoresponder do the rest of the work for you. After you have that site on autopilot, move on to the next site on your list.

You don?t have to do it this way, but it?s a proven way ? and it?s a good way to start earning some money online in your business. Get started today on building up your business, and you will find that success can be yours. Go for it today, and wind up as one of the 5% of online business owners who actually have success online.

Good luck with marketing your products and services online today.

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Source: http://blog.internetmarketing-rules.com/2012/12/internet-marketing-niche-marketing_31.html

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