The reproductive interests of males and females usually differ, resulting in sexual conflict. Recent studies in which experimental selection trials were carried out under conditions of either 'high' or 'low' sexual conflict show that conflict can promote speciation and reduce female reproductive success.

To build a rich-media service grid for automatically managing the life-cycle activities of services, it is entailed to have an automatic resource management system to provide a cost-bounded capacity guarantee illusion to services over distributed heterogeneous resources. In this paper, we describe our preliminary experience in the design and implementation of the ARMS (Automatic Resource Manage...