Abstract
Many mobile agent applications require the agents being constantly present on the network. We address the problem of fair agent distribution as a multi-agent game where agents gain the most revenue from hosts that were long not visited. We show that in the perfect information case there exist a Nash equilibrium.We also consider several local strategies where gaining information is associated with additional cost. At the end of the paper we provide simulation results and a comparison of several global and local strategies.
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Sugar, R., Imre, S. (2002). Mobile Agent Distribution in a Game-Theoretic Approach. In: Karmouch, A., Magedanz, T., Delgado, J. (eds) Mobile Agents for Telecommunication Applications. MATA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2521. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36086-7_15
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