@TechReport{Dartmouth:TR99-345,
  author = {Jonathan Bredin and David Kotz and Daniela Rus},
  title = {{Mobile-Agent Planning in a Market-Oriented Environment}},
  institution = {Dartmouth College, Computer Science},
  address = {Hanover, NH},
  number = {PCS-TR99-345},
  year = {1999},
  month = {May},
  URL = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR99-345.ps.Z},
  comment = {
    See
    <a href="http://agent.cs.dartmouth.edu/papers/#market">related papers.</a>
  },
  abstract = {
    We propose a method for increasing incentives for sites to host
    arbitrary mobile agents in which mobile agents purchase their computing
    needs from host sites.  We present a scalable market-based CPU allocation
    policy and an on-line algorithm that plans a mobile agent's expenditure
    over a multihop ordered itinerary.  The algorithm chooses a set of sites
    at which to execute and computational priorities at each site to minimize
    execution time while preserving a prespecified budget constraint.  We
    present simulation results of our algorithm to show that our allocation
    policy and planning algorithm scale well as more agents are added to the
    system.
  }
}