Publications related to Reciprocal altruism

Gamifying knowledge sharing in humanitarian organisations: a design science journey

Denis Gillet, Isabelle Barbara Marie-Hélène Cardia, Samuel Bendahan, Adrian Christian Holzer

Humanitarian organisations provide invaluable work to improve the lives of individuals impacted by natural and anthropogenic hazards. While humanitarian organisations are highly knowledge intensive, they often fail to manage knowledge effectively. Providin ...

2020

Neighbor predation linked to natural competence fosters the transfer of large genomic regions in Vibrio cholerae

Melanie Blokesch, Nicolas Jean Philippe Guex, Christian Iseli, Sandrine Stutzmann, Candice Stoudmann, Noémie Matthey

Natural competence for transformation is a primary mode of horizontal gene transfer. Competent bacteria are able to absorb free DNA from their surroundings and exchange this DNA against pieces of their own genome when sufficiently homologous. However, the ...

2019

Anytime Heuristic for Weighted Matching Through Altruism-Inspired Behavior

Boi Faltings, Aris Filos Ratsikas, Panayiotis Danassis

We present a novel anytime heuristic (ALMA), inspired by the human principle of altruism, for solving the assignment problem. ALMA is decentralized, completely uncoupled, and requires no communication between the participants. We prove an upper bound on th ...

2019

Bartering Books to Beers: a Recommender System for Exchange Platforms

Michele Catasta, Jérémie Rappaz, Maria-Luiza Vladarean

Bartering is a timeless practice that is becoming increasingly popular on the Web. Recommending trades for an online bartering platform shares many similarities with traditional approaches to recommendation, in particular the need to model the preferences ...

2017

On Non-cooperative Genomic Privacy

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Amalio Telenti, Erman Ayday

Over the last few years, the vast progress in genome sequencing has highly increased the availability of genomic data. Today, individuals can obtain their digital genomic sequences at reasonable prices from many online service providers. Individuals can st ...

2015

Interdependent Privacy Games: The Case of Genomics

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert, Amalio Telenti, Erman Ayday

2015

When Others Impinge upon Your Privacy

Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert

Privacy is defined as the right to control, edit, manage, and delete information about oneself and decide when, how, and to what extent this information is communicated to others. Therefore, every person should ideally be empowered to manage and protect hi ...

EPFL2015

A Quantitative Test of Hamilton's Rule for the Evolution of Altruism

Dario Floreano, Laurent Keller, Markus Waibel

The evolution of altruism is a fundamental and enduring puzzle in biology. In a seminal paper Hamilton showed that altruism can be selected for when rb − c>0, where c is the fitness cost to the altruist, b is the fitness benefit to the beneficiary, and r i ...

Public Library of Science2011

On Tracking Freeriders in Gossip Protocols

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Maxime Monod

Peer-to-peer content dissemination applications suffer immensely from freeriders, i.e., nodes that do not provide their fair share. The Tit-for-Tat (TfT) incentives have received much attention as they help make such systems more robust against freeriding. ...

2009

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