%T Market-based Resource Control for Mobile Agents
%A Jonathan Bredin
%A David Kotz
%A Daniela Rus
%R Technical Report PCS-TR97-326
%I Dartmouth College, Computer Science
%C Hanover, NH
%D November 1997
%U http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR97-326.ps.Z
%X
 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.
%Z
 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>