BibTeX for a paper by David Kotz at Dartmouth College.
For more information about this paper, visit this web page:
https://kotz.cs.dartmouth.edu/research/bredin-demand-tr/index.html

@TechReport{bredin:demand-tr,
  author =        {Jonathan Bredin and David Kotz and Daniela Rus},
  title =         {{Utility Driven Mobile-Agent Scheduling}},
  institution =   {Dartmouth Computer Science},
  year =          1998,
  month =         {May},
  number =        {PCS-TR98-331},
  copyright =     {the authors},
  URL =           {https://kotz.cs.dartmouth.edu/research/bredin-demand-tr/index.html},
  note =          {Revised October 3, 1998},
  abstract =      {Mobile agents are programs capable of migrating from one host machine to another. We propose that mobile agents purchase resource access rights from host machines thereby establishing a market for computational resources and giving agents a metric to evenly distribute themselves throughout the network. Market participation requires quantitative information about resource consumption to define demand and calculate utility. \par  We create a formal utility model to derive user-demand functions, allowing agents to efficiently plan expenditure and deal with price fluctuations. By quantifying demand and utility, resource owners can precisely set a value for a good. We simulate our model in a mobile agent scheduling environment and show how mobile agents may use server prices to distribute themselves evenly throughout a network.},
}