Chicks of the brood parasitic common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) typically monopolize host parental care by evicting all eggs and nestmates from the nest. To assess the benefits of parasitic eviction behaviour throughout the full nestling period, we generated mixed broods of one cuckoo and one great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) to study how hosts divide care between own and parasitic y...

Cuckoo-host interactions provide classical examples of coevolution. Cuckoos place hosts under selection to detect and reject foreign eggs, while host defences result in the evolution of host-egg mimicry in cuckoos. Despite a long history of research, egg pattern mimicry has never been objectively quantified, and so its coevolution with host defences has not been properly assessed. Here, we use ...

Probabilistic data structures are so popular in membership queries, network applications, and so on. Bloom Filter and Cuckoo Filter are two popular space efficient models that incorporate in set membership checking part of many important protocols. They are compact representation of data that use hash functions to randomize a set of items. Being able to store more elements while keeping a reaso...

Cuckoo hashing holds great potential as a high-performance hashing scheme for real applications. Up to this point, the greatest drawback of cuckoo hashing appears to be that there is a polynomially small but practically significant probability that a failure occurs during the insertion of an item, requiring an expensive rehashing of all items in the table. In this paper, we show that this failu...

Recent evidence suggests that blue-green coloration of bird eggshells may be related to female and/or egg phenotypic quality, and that such colour may affect parental effort and therefore the nutritional environment of developing nestlings. Here we suggest that these relationships and the signal function of eggshell coloration would affect the outcome of coevolution between avian brood parasite...

<p><span>Decision making strategies for resources available in macro/micro scales have long been a critical argument. Among existing methods to address such mixed-binary optimization model, Lagrangian relaxation (LR) found universal acceptance by many utilities, offering fast and accurate answer. This paper aims at retrofitting the solution way of LR algorithm dint meta-heuristic cu...

Hash tables are an essential data-structure for numerous networking applications (e.g., connection tracking, rewalls, network address translators). Among these, cuckoo hash tables provide excellent performance by allowing lookups to be processed with very few memory accesses (2 to 3 per lookup). Yet, for large tables, cuckoo hash tables remain memory bound and each memory access impacts perform...

BACKGROUND Antagonistic species often interact via matching of phenotypes, and interactions between brood parasitic common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) and their hosts constitute classic examples. The outcome of a parasitic event is often determined by the match between host and cuckoo eggs, giving rise to potentially strong associations between fitness and egg phenotype. Yet, empirical efforts ai...

The performance analysis of optimization techniques is very important to understand the strengths and weaknesses of each technique. It is not very common to find an optimization technique that performs equally on all optimization problems, and the numbers offered by the most common performance measures, the achieved function value (fitness) and the number of function evaluations, are not repres...