Under the pressure of work's devaluation and state's retrenchment, men women in Spain manage their extended family resources a struggle to provide for dependents. These have become main axis inequality Spain's financialized economy. Drawing on fieldwork Madrid, I show that understand themselves terms this responsibility, internalizing capitalist pressures social reproduction as matter. This sel...

In nature, communities that revolve around altruistic cooperation exist: for example, a bee colony, where individual bees retrieve nectar for the communal hive rather than scouting selfishly for their own survival. Although cooperation can certainly be implemented into an artificial life simulation, from an evolutionary standpoint a more interesting question is raised: can the interactions of a...

Many interactions between network users rely on trust, which is becoming particularly important given the security breaches in the Internet today. These problems are further exacerbated by the dynamics in wireless mobile networks. In this paper, we address the issue of trust advisory and its establishment in mobile networks, with application to ad hoc networks, including delay tolerant (DTNs).W...

Rights © 2015 Lingfei Yu and Pengfei Liu. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Routing in mobile social networks is a challenging task due to the characteristic of intermittent connectivity, especially when the nodes be...

In this paper we consider the problem of scheduling on computing platforms composed of several independent organizations, known as the Multi-Organization Scheduling Problem (MOSP). Each organization provides both resources and tasks and follows its own objectives. We are interested in the best way to minimize the makespan on the entire platform when the organizations behave in a selfish way. We...

Government interventions on usage of free speech for communication has been rising of late. The government of Iraq’s ban on the Internet, ban of mobile communications in Hong Kong student protests highlight the same. Applications like Firechat which use mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) to enable off the grid communication between mobile users, have gained popularity in these regions. However, th...

Security is a critical problem when implementing Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and is widely acknowledged. This paper describes the effects of selfish nodes in MANETs. An Ad Hoc Network is a collection of wireless mobile hosts forming a temporary network without the aid of any centralized administration or standard support services. One of the different kinds of misbehavior is node selfishnes...