Market-based resource control for mobile agents

1 January 1998

proceedings article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

p. 197-204
https://doi.org/10.1145/280765.280801

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.

Keywords

ELECTRONIC CASH
DYNAMIC-PRICING POLICY
DYNAMIC PRICING
MOBILE AGENTS
SEALED-BID SECOND-PRICE AUCTION
RESOURCE MANAGER
DISCONNECTED NETWORK
MOBILE AGENT
MARKET-BASED RESOURCE CONTROL
BANKING SYSTEM
VIRTUAL WORLDS
HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION
SECOND PRICE AUCTION
INTELLIGENT AGENTS

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