Economic Markets as a Means of Open Mobile-Agent Systems

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1999
Accession Number
ADA440603

Entities

People

  • Daniela L. Rus
  • David Kotz
  • Jonathan Bredin

Organizations

  • Dartmouth College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Commerce
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Congestion
  • Contracts
  • Denial Of Service Attack
  • Economic Systems
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Money
  • Motivation
  • Resource Management
  • Standards

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Economics
  • Inertial Navigation Systems.