Treating others fairly and equitably is a basic requirement for moral behaviour, yet in many everyday situations the impulse to be selfish and benefit ourselves at the expense of others remains a powerful motive. This chapter reports five experiments investigating the influence of positive and negative affect on moral decisions involving the allocation of resources to ourselves vs others, using...

Management of QoS in interdomain networks has become a crucial task, either for ASs providing the final services or ASs acting as transit service providers. Indeed, the fully decentralized manner in which interdomain is operated, requires a distributed algorithms for QoS management. However, when designing distributed algorithms for networks, it is usually assumed that the participants collabor...

Countermeasures against node misbehavior and selfishness are mandatory requirements in mobile ad hoc networks. Selfishness that causes lack of node activity cannot be solved by classical security means that aim at verifying the correctness and integrity of an operation. In this paper we outline an original security mechanism (CORE) based on reputation that is used to enforce cooperation among t...

In this paper, a novel protocol for providing both client and server anonymity in peer-to-peer (P2P) based grids is presented. The protocol assumes individual nodes or users to be utility maximizing agents, and relies on an auction mechanism for trading of resources among them. The resources here can refer to data files, storage capacity, or computation power (i.e., CPU cycles) etc. The protoco...

Received Jan 30, 2017 Revised Jun 2, 2017 Accepted Jun 16, 2017 One of the most routing problems in Mobile Ad-hoc Network is the node’s selfishness. Nodes are generally selfish and try to maximize their own benefit; hence these nodes refuse to forward packet on behalf of others to preserve their limited energy resources. This selfishness may lead to a low efficiency of routing. Therefore, it is...

We examine some implications of Kropotkin’s seminal work on mutual aid as a factor evolution to analyze how non-competitive life relations are understood in current biological theories. distinguish two research lines deriving from his work: one them studies intraspecific altruism and selfishness, the other is focused interspecific symbiotic relations. Furthermore, we use example pregnancy vivip...

We investigated lying as a collective-risk social dilemma. Misreporting resulted in increased individual earnings but when total claims reached certain threshold, all group members were at risk of collective sanction, regardless their behavior. Due to selfishness and miscoordination, most individuals earned less than the reservation payoff from honest reporting group. However, preferences for t...