This is very similar to the proxy bidding system used by eBay, where the winner pays the second highest bid plus a bidding increment (e.g., 10%).

Pete and Lucy could use their agents to carry out all these tasks thanks not to the World Wide Web of today but rather the Semantic Web that it will evolve into tomorrow.

For example, when an Ethernet adapter is dynamically added to a partition, the following agents are invoked to configure the adapter and network: pci_bus.agent, pci.agent, and net.agent.