Ecosystems - Burden or Bounty?

Mutiny over Bounty?

Bounty Services Ltd advertise commercial products on postnatal wards of hospitals throughout Britain by means of free gifts. Since the " Bounty lady" is apparently well known to nursing staff but may have gone unnoticed by paediatricians and obstetricians an investigation was conducted of the quality of the gifts and the nature of the company. With two exceptions the samples and promotional lea...

This thy bounty.

Diversity or Concentration? Hackers’ Strategy for Working Across Multiple Bug Bounty Programs

Bug bounty programs have been proved effective in attracting external hackers to find and disclose potential flaws in a responsible way. There are many different bug bounty programs, so how do hackers balance diversity and concentration to effectively build their reputation in the vulnerability discovery ecosystem? In this paper, we present a novel methodology to understand how hackers spread t...

Preserving Biodiversity: Species, Ecosystems, or Landscapes?

Efforts to preserve biological diversity must focus increasingly at the ecosystem level because of the immense number of species, the majority of which are currently unknown. An ecosystem approach is also the only way to conserve processes and habitats (such as forest canopies, belowground habitats, and hyporheic zones) that, with their constituent species, are poorly known. Continued concern w...

Bounty Hunters and Multiagent Task Allocation

We propose a system for multiagent task allocation inspired by the model used by bounty hunters and bail bondsmen. A bondsman posts tasks for agents to complete, along with bounties to be collected by an agent on completion. Multiple agents, taking the role of the bounty hunters, compete to finish tasks and collect their bounties. While a task remains uncompleted, its bounty gradually rises, ma...