Market-Based Resource Control for Mobile Agents

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 fixedpricing and dynamic-pricing policies for resources. We focus on and analyze the sealed-bid second-price auction as a mechanism for dynamic pricing.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: AGENTS
• Authors: Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, Daniela Rus
• Keywords: AGENTS 1998, Electronic Cash, Mobile Agents, Sealed-bid Second-price Auction, Security Privacy