The nature of computer networks and the manner in which network services are provided are changing dramatically. Network architectures that employ virtual mobile agents to provide services are under development. We describe Price Propagation, which is based on pricing in market economies. It is a decentralized adaptive mechanism for regulating agent behavior, with the goal of allocating computational resources optimally.
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