@TechReport{Dartmouth:TR97-326,
  author = {Jonathan Bredin and David Kotz and Daniela Rus},
  title = {{Market-based Resource Control for Mobile Agents}},
  institution = {Dartmouth College, Computer Science},
  address = {Hanover, NH},
  number = {PCS-TR97-326},
  year = {1997},
  month = {November},
  URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-326.ps.Z},
  comment = {
    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>
  },
  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.
  }
}