Interest Group Strategic Responses to Democratic Backsliding

Linkable Democratic Group Signatures

In a variety of group-oriented applications cryptographic primitives like group signatures or ring signatures are valuable methods to achieve anonymity of group members. However, in their classical form, these schemes cannot be deployed for applications that simultaneously require (i) to avoid centralized management authority like group manager and (ii) the signer to be anonymous only against n...

Buying Group Design Considering the Member’s Interest

Enhancing the speed and competition in an exhibition of services and products motivated the companies to provide high-quality products to the customers. One of the effective strategies to reach these goals is to create working groups. These groups can help the companies to improve the quality and exposure of their services along with reducing the costs. This approach is applicable in the health...

Interest-Based Peer-to-Peer Group Management

Peer-to-Peer systems become popular applications but suffer from insufficient resource availability which is caused by free-riders and inefficient lookup algorithms. To address the first cause, a number of recent works have focused on providing appropriate incentive mechanisms to encourage participants to contribute their resources to the P2P systems. To improve the lookup efficiency, locality-...

A Network Approach to Interest Group Politics

Women's strategic responses to violence in Nicaragua.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To describe the responses of women in León, Nicaragua to partner abuse and identify contextual factors associated with the use of certain coping mechanisms and the likelihood of permanent separation. DESIGN Cross sectional population-based survey. SETTING León, Nicaragua. PARTICIPANTS 188 women 15-49 years of age who had experienced physical partner abuse, out of 488 women...