BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR97-326
ENTRY:: December 04, 1997
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: Market-based Resource Control for Mobile Agents
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Bredin, Jonathan
AUTHOR:: Kotz, David
AUTHOR:: Rus, Daniela
DATE:: November 1997
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to
       Technical Report Librarian
       Department of Computer Science
       Dartmouth College
       6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
       Hanover, NH 03755-3510
       USA
RETRIEVAL:: Compressed Postscript at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-326.ps.Z
RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-326.pdf
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>
END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR97-326