Computational Markets to Regulate Mobile-Agent Systems

Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 235-263

  Bredin, Jonathan ^a   Kotz, David ^a   Rus, Daniela ^a   Maheswaran, Rajiv T ^b   Imer, Cagri ^b   Basar, Tamer ^b  

^a Dartmouth Department of Computer Science_Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Market based control; Mobile agents; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

MARKET-BASED CONTROL; MOBILE AGENTS;

ALGORITHMS; AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COSTS; PUBLIC POLICY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STANDARDIZATION;

MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0347132459     PISSN: 13872532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022923422570     Document Type: Article

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