Incentive scheme for stimulating service provision in Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANET) has been under intensive investigation due to its significance to the operation of MANET. This paper applies distributed algorithmic mechanism design and utilizes Vickrey auction for service allocation in mobile ad hoc networks. We show that our method stimulates service provision and achieves desired system-wi...

Students chose between two allocation options, one that gave the allocator more and another participant still more (the "optimal" choice) and one which gave the allocator less and the other participant still less (the "competitive" choice). In a within-subjects design, students' behavior patterns were significantly correlated across the two rounds of decision-making; however, students allocated...

Centralized approaches have several important drawbacks when employed to solve the resource allocation problem within an agent community. This paper seeks to provide scalable and distributed algorithms to solve this problem, avoiding centralized approach drawbacks. We propose adaptive and “anytime” algorithms which can be applied with any kind of contact network, any range for the utility value...

This paper describes mprof, a tool used to study the dynamic memory allocation behavior of programs. Mprof records the amount of memory that a function allocates, breaks down allocation information by type and size, and displays a program’s dynamic call graph so that functions indirectly responsible for memory allocation are easy to identify. Mprof is a two-phase tool. The monitor phase is link...

In the process of traditional economy transforming into modern economy in china, farmer’s diversification phenomena has arisen and developed and will continue a long time in the future. Accordingly, the general economic type of farmer diversification will effect on the rural source allocation. The land use behavior characteristics of diversification farmer are the aims of the study. Theoretic a...

We investigated how another person's emotions about resource allocation decisions influence observers' resource allocations by influencing the emotions that observers anticipate feeling if they were to act in the same way. Participants were exposed to an exemplar who made a fair or unfair division in an economic game and expressed pride or regret about this decision. Participants then made thei...

Experimental evidence indicates that non-monetary considerations influence subjects’ allocation behavior. We investigate the impact of a multigeneration setup on allocation behavior. We modify the traditional dictator game by introducing 3 generations A, B and C. A takes an arbitrary share of a pie and passes the rest to B. B divides the rest of the pie between her and C. We find that this inte...

Time is one of the more salient constraints on managerial behavior. This constraint may be very taxing in high-velocity environments where managers have to attend to many tasks simultaneously. Earlier work by Radner (1976) proposed models based on notions of the thermostat or “putting out fires” to guide managerial time and effort allocation among tasks. We link these ideas to the issue of the ...

Physically maltreated children are at risk for developing externalizing behavioral problems characterized by reactive aggression. The current experiment tested the relationships between individual differences in a neural index of social information processing, histories of child maltreatment, child negative affect, and aggressive behavior. Fifty boys (17 maltreated) performed an emotion recogni...

Time is one of the more salient constraints on managerial behavior. This constraint may be very taxing in high velocity environments where managers have to attend to many tasks simultaneously. Earlier work by Radner [1976] proposed models based on notions of the thermostat or “putting out fires” to guide managerial time and effort allocation among tasks. We link these ideas to the issue of the ...