Mobile Agent Based Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing is becoming a revolutionizing computing paradigm. It offers various types of services and applications that are being delivered in the internet cloud. The services aim at providing reliable, fault tolerant dynamic computing environment to the user and offers computing resources as per demand. Skype, Dropbox, and Yahoo mail are some of the cloud services that have major impact in our lives. Several measures are taken to maintain the quality of its service in the cloud and to make IT infrastructure available with low cost. This paper presents various aspects of Cloud Computing, its implementation features, challenges and also explores the potential scope for research. The major section of this paper includes surveys of studies related to the possibilities of integrating Mobile Agents in Cloud Computing, since these technologies appear to be promising and marketable. Thus, the paper focuses on resolving challenges and bolstering services of Cloud Computing by utilizing Mobile Agent technology in various aspects of Cloud Computing

Public-private partnerships for inclusive development role of private corporate sector in provision of healthcare services /

Travelling abroad for medical treatment, also known as healthcare tourism is a growing phenomenon. Medical tourism is a provision of cost effective private medical care by corporate hospitals such as Apollo and Fortis, in partnership with the government, medical and the tourism industry to foreign patients needing elective, diagnostic, cosmetic surgery and alternative therapies who are travelling to India in search of value. The Minister of Finance, in the 10th 2003-2007 budget speech, called for India to become a world class “Global Health Destination” and attracting foreign direct investment as a pathway for economic development. Thus on one hand, India is providing first world quality of medical treatment to foreign patients and on the other hand, is struggling to provide equitable access to primary healthcare and infrastructure for millions living in poverty. The aim of this paper is to critically examine the sustainable and inclusive (pro-poor) development of healthcare services by the private corporate sector, in public-private partnership (PPP) with the government