It is a common assumption in evolutionary theory that a parent will distribute its resources evenly between a set of equivalent oospring. However this paper presents a theoretical model in which uneven parental investment between a set of equivalent oospring can be a preferred evolutionary strategy to equal investment in the same set of oospring. This eeect does not depend on different oospring...

Power saving mechanisms in wireless ad hoc network nodes mainly switch off the transmission and reception hardware for a maximal amount of time and turn it on again within a given interval. Many approaches aim to synchronize the state changes of the nodes in the network through distributed beacon generation and introduce mechanisms where nodes synchronously wake up at designated points of time ...

We study experiments of an overlapping generations model where inflation is determined by the monetary policy and by the amount of average saving within each period. We use a new experimental setup that allows us to observe more details of the process of expectation forming and separate this process from the actual saving process. In contrast to experimental findings by Lim, Prescott, Sunder; M...

We propose a new power saving scheme based on a buffer-threshold and timer in wireless packet networks. In a standard sleep mode operation with a binary exponential algorithm, a mobile station (MS) can begin a wake period if it is aware of the existence of its own downlink packets during a listening interval. In a light traffic environment, this conventional standard operation consumes a consid...

This paper presents a checkpointing-recovery scheme for optimistically synchronized parallel computations. The scheme relies on a checkpointing protocol, namely hybrid state saving, embedding both sparse and incremental state saving modes, and on a state recovery procedure embedding both forward and backward recovery modes. This scheme is a generalization of many previous solutions, which can b...

Smart grid is a modern electrical grid technology that improves the efficiency and reliability. The main challenges of smart grids are how to manage different types of front-end intelligent devices such as smart meters and how to process a huge amount of data received from these devices. Cloud computing, a technology that provides computational resources on demands to address these challenges. ...

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizing the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) as a mobile data collector for the ground sensor nodes (SNs) is an energy-efficient technique to prolong the network lifetime. Specifically, since the UAV can sequentially move close to each of the SNs when collecting data from them and thus reduce the link distance for saving the SNs’ transmission energy. In this l...

Local or wide-area heterogeneous workstation clusters are relatively cheap and highly effective, though inherently unstable operating environments for long-running distributed computations. We found this to be the case in early experiments with a prototype of the EcliPSe system, a software toolkit for replicative applications on heterogeneous workstation clusters. Hardware or network failures i...