Document Type

Conference Paper

Publication Date

5-1-1999

Publication Title

Proceedings of the Workshop “Mobile Agents in the Context of Competition and Cooperation (MAC3)” at Autonomous Agents '99

Department

Department of Computer Science

Abstract

Mobile-agent systems have gained popularity in use because they ease the application design process by giving software engineers greater flexibility. Although the value of any network is dependent on both the number of users and the number of sites participating in the network, there is little motivation for systems to donate resources to arbitrary agents. We propose to remedy the problem by imposing an economic market on mobile-agent systems where agents purchase resources from host sites and sell services to users and other agents. Host sites accumulate revenues, which are distributed to users to be used to launch more agents. We argue for the use of markets to regulate mobile-agent systems and discuss open issues in implementing market-based mobile-agent systems.

Original Citation

Jonathan Bredin, David Kotz, and Daniela Rus. Economic Markets as a Means of Open Mobile-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the Workshop “Mobile Agents in the Context of Competition and Cooperation (MAC3)” at Autonomous Agents '99, May 1999.

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