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The problem of balancing supply and demand is not a new problem for multi-agent systems (MAS). Achieving a balance between the demand for jobs of a certain kind and the supply of agents to perform these jobs is critical to system performance and stability. An insufficient number of agents forces jobs to accumulate over time, preventing the system from benefiting from the parallel nature of the networked MAS. On the other hand an excessive number of agents slow the system down with unnecessary processing and communications overhead. This problem is amplified if the agent system is running over a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), since such networks may be composed of lightweight devices that are restricted in terms of processing power, memory, available bandwidth and battery power.