The chalcid wasps (Hymenoptera) that develop in fig tree inflorescences (Ficus: Moraceae) have often been used to study alternative reproductive behaviors. However, recent work suggests that such behaviors are more complex than previously thought. We investigated this in Otitesella longicauda...

In this paper, the beginnings of a new approach to the theory of aggregation are developed. The basic idea is that aggregation should involve two things: (a) data over which social preferences are defined should be mapped into a smaller-dimensional space, and (b) there should exist an ordering...

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We deal with an `organization' having m individual agents (the `agents') and one central agent or agency (the `coordinator'), and the problem of allocating a fixed supply of n commodities among the agents. The coordinator wishes to distribute the commodities in such a way as to maximize an...