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IAT '05 Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
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IEEE Transactions on Computers
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CIA '08 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Cooperative Information Agents XII
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The 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 2
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The proposed Competitive Contract Net Protocol has been designed to facilitate a flexible cooperation in competitive multi-agent environments and to support automated or semi-automated negotiations in competitive domains. The protocol is based on FIPA standards. The protocol covers not only the phase of contracting the commitments, but also allows for a decommitment negotiation and contract termination. Thus, it consists of three phases: (i) a contracting phase, where conditions of agreement are concluded, (ii) an optional decommitment phase, where contract may be breached, and (iii) a contract termination phase, where the compliance with the concluded contract conditions is evaluated. Both the decommitment and non-compliance are bounded with penalties which measurably ensure a compliance with the commitments, but also allow an opportunistic behaviour of the agents at some price.