An implementation of the contract net protocol based on marginal cost calculations
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...More recently, such a formal model was introduced which gives rise to a negotiation protocol that provably leads to desirable task allocations among agents [60, 62, 64]....
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...The committal search may also involve iteratively renegotiating some parts of the solution that have already been agreed on, but have become less desirable in light of the newer agreements regarding other parts of the solution [60]....
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...This is the setting of many real world problems, including several where computational agents are used [66, 68, 67, 60, 62, 56]....
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...This situation often occurs among computational agents, where the value of a good (or task contract [66, 68, 67, 60, 62, 56]) can only be determined via carrying out a costly computation—e....
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...Sources and Further Reading The abstract model of agents presented here is based on that given in [25, Chapter 13], and also makes use of some ideas from [61, 60]....
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...To rectify some of its shortcoming, a number of extensions to the basic protocol have been proposed, for example [128]....
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...Economics-based mechanisms have been utilized in mas to address problems of resource allocation (the central theme of economic research) [102, 128, 71]....
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...6 Transportation systems have been extensively used as examples for DPS systems (e.g., [ 41 ])....
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...1 Introduction The contract net protocol (CNP) (Smith 1980; Smith & Davis 1981; Davis & Smith 1988) for decentralized task allocation is one of the important paradigms developed in distributed artificial intelligence (DAI)....
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...The messages received during the operation of the bidder, awarder or award taker are handled on the next cycle of the local control loop....
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"An implementation of the contract n..." refers background in this paper
...The contract net protocol (CNP) (Smith 1980; Smith & Davis 1981; Davis & Smith 1988) for decentralized task allocation is one of the important paradigms developed in distributed artificial intelligence (DAI)....
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