Intro; Preface; Contents; About the Editors; Algorithms; A Framework for Solution to Nurse Assignment Problem in Health Care with Variable Demand; 1 Introduction; 2 Review Work; 2.1 Heuristic Search; 3 Research Scope; 4 Proposed Work; 4.1 Framework; 4.2 Description of Proposed Nurse Assignment Methods; 5 Experimental Results and Discussion; 5.1 Performance Evaluation of Home Care Nursing Service; 5.2 Results of Hospital Care Nursing Service in Emergency Scheduling; 5.3 Results of Combined GA for Regular Scheduling; 6 Conclusion; References

A Novel Bio-inspired Algorithm for Increasing Throughput in Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) by Mitigating Inter-WBAN Interference1 Introduction; 2 Related Work; 3 WBAN Design Model; 3.1 System Model; 3.2 Optimization Problem Formulation; 4 Problem Solving Based on Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) Technique; 4.1 Notation; 4.2 PSO Based Spectrum Allocation Algorithm; 5 Simulation Results; 6 Conclusion; References; Cloud Computing; Paving the Way for Autonomic Clouds: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions; 1 Introduction; 2 Review of Existing Approaches in the Literature

2.1 Metaheuristic-Based Approaches2.2 Machine Learning Based Approaches; 2.3 Market-Based Approaches; 2.4 Cryptography-Based Approaches; 2.5 Hybrid Approaches; 2.6 Miscellaneous Approaches; 3 Discussion; 4 Future Directions; 5 Conclusion; References; Toward Efficient Autonomic Management of Clouds: A CDS-Based Hierarchical Approach; 1 Introduction; 2 Motivation; 3 Related Work; 4 Proposed Framework; 4.1 Preliminaries; 4.2 Details of the Proposed Framework; 5 Results and Discussion; 6 Conclusion; References; Delta Authorization Concept for Dynamic Access Control Model in Cloud Environment

1 Introduction2 Background Details; 2.1 Authentication; 2.2 Authorization; 2.3 Context-Based Authorization; 3 Proposed Model; 3.1 Session Data Management in Different Authorization Model; 3.2 Structuring the Different Context Conditions; 4 Implementation Details; 4.1 Different Phases; 5 Comparison; 5.1 Time for Reaction; 5.2 Message Overhead; 5.3 Session Management; 6 Conclusion; References; Wireless Sensor Networks; Two-Hop-Based Geographic Opportunistic Routing in WSNs; 1 Introduction; 2 Literature Survey; 3 Background; 4 System Model and Problem Definition

4.1 Definitions of Node's Neighbor and Its Relationships4.2 Terminology: One-Hop and Two-Hop Receivers; 4.3 Definition of Forwarding Area; 5 Mathematical Model; 6 Proposed Algorithm; 7 Simulation Setup; 8 Performance Analysis; 9 Conclusions; References; Data Gathering from Path-Constrained Mobile Sensors Using Data MULE; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Contribution; 2 Related Works; 3 Problem Statement and Complexity Analysis; 4 Algorithm to Find Minimum Data Mules and Their Paths; 4.1 Example of Execution of Algorithm DGPCMS; 4.2 Analysis; 5 Conclusions; References