@inproceedings{bredin:market,
    author = {Jonathan Bredin and David Kotz and Daniela Rus},
    title = {Market-based Resource Control for Mobile Agents},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Autonomous
Agents},
    year = {1998},
    month = {May},
    pages = {197--204},
    publisher = {ACM Press},
    copyright = {ACM},
    group = {dfk, agents, coabs, actcomm, cmc},
    vitatype = {05},
    acceptpercent = {34},
    earlier = {bredin:market-tr},
    url = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/bredin:market.ps.gz},
    urlpdf = {http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~dfk/papers/bredin:market.pdf},
    keyword = {mobile agents, electronic commerce, market-based control, dfk},
    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.}
}