Market-based Resource Control for Mobile Agents

Dartmouth Technical Report PCS-TR97-326

	Jonathan Bredin
	David Kotz
	Daniela Rus

Date: November 1997

URL (compressed postscript): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-326.ps.Z> (136KB)

URL (PDF): <http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-326.pdf> (224KB)

Abstract:
 Mobile agents are programs that can migrate from machine to machine in
 a heterogeneous, partially disconnected network. As mobile agents move
 across a network, they consume resources.  We discuss a system for
 controlling the activities of mobile agents that uses electronic cash,
 a banking system, and a set of resource managers.  We describe
 protocols for transactions between agents.  We present fixed-pricing
 and dynamic-pricing policies for resources.  We focus on and analyze
 the sealed-bid second-price auction as a mechanism for dynamic
 pricing.

Note:
 A revised version appeared in the conference Autonomous Agents '98.
 See <a href="/~dfk/papers/bredin:market.html">here</a>. See
 <a href="http://agent.cs.dartmouth.edu/papers/#market">related papers.</a>