Scalability and robustness of a network resource allocation system using market-based agents

Abstract

agent, communications network, market, resource allocation, scalability, robustness,

Evolutionary Market Agents for Resource Allocation in Decentralised Systems

“…A number of distributed auction mechanisms have also been proposed [9][10][11][12], which do not rely on one central auctioneer. These reduce the fragility associated with reliance upon a single point, provide more scalability and allow for dynamic composition of auctions.…”

Evolutionary market agents and heterogeneous service providers: Achieving desired resource allocations

“…A number of distributed auction mechanisms have also been proposed [9], [10], [11], [12], which reduce the fragility associated with reliance upon a single node, provide more scalability and allow for dynamic composition of auctions. However, similarly to the vulnerabilities of the Internet's domain name system [13], failure at certain points in the network may well cripple wider functionality, at best.…”

An Auction-Based System for Workforce Resource Allocation

“…2 Once BA1 receives a response back from the seller agents, it then selects a winning engineer which can serve its purpose (winnerDetermination). 3 Finally, a message is sent from BA1 to both SA2 and SA3 to notify the seller agents about the outcome of the buyer agent's selection (notifySeller ). This process continues for each buyer agent, one at a time, until no buyer agent has any more job demands to submit for that particular day.…”

“…It is our belief that auctions can be used as an alternative to optimisation methods for solving such problems. Auctions have been successfully investigated in a number of areas where some of these include resource allocation in communications networks ( [2] and [3]) as well as task allocation mechanisms for limited-capacity suppliers [1], amongst other work. We decided to investigate the use of auctions for two reasons.…”