Analyzing the social behavior of contract net protocol
MAAMAW '96 Proceedings of the 7th European workshop on Modelling autonomous agents in a multi-agent world : agents breaking away: agents breaking away
Unenforced E-Commerce Transactions
IEEE Internet Computing
Environment centered analysis and design of coordination mechanisms
Environment centered analysis and design of coordination mechanisms
The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Solving time-dependent planning problems
IJCAI'89 Proceedings of the 11th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
Atomic commit and negotiation in service oriented computing
COORDINATION'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Coordination Models and Languages
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For the efficient and informative coordination of multiple agents, a time-bounded agent negotiation framework is proposed utilizing time-based commitment scheme. By attaching the commitment duration to agent messages, the traditional Contract Net Protocol is extended to a time-bounded environment, thereby giving rise to a Time-Bounded Negotiation Framework (TBNF). The proposed negotiation framework has a new message type to agree upon the extension of a commitment duration, and a novel commitment concept in the form of Negative Commitment. We interpret the semantics of the messages with the commitment duration, and then formally define and compare the three typical negotiation protocols - nothing-guaranteed protocol, acceptance-guaranteed protocol, and finite-time guarantee protocol - which can be incorporated into TBNF. The Time-Bounded Negotiation Framework should provide a background for efficient and effective agent coordination while accommodating each agent's adaptive negotiation strategy.