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An Extended Multi-Agent Negotiation Protocol |
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| Authors: | Samir Aknine Suzanne Pinson Melvin F Shakun |
| Affiliation: | (1) LIP6, Université Paris 6, 8, rue du Capitaine Scott, 75015 PARIS Cedex 15, France;(2) LAMSADE, Université Paris Dauphine, Place du Maréchal De Lattre De Tassigny, 75775 Paris 16, France;(3) Leonard, N. Stern School of Business, New York University, 44, West 4th Street, New York, NY 10012-1126, USA |
| Abstract: | This article presents a task allocation protocol that is efficient in time and tolerates crash failures in multi-agent systems. The protocol is an extension of the negotiation protocol defined by Smith and Davis 25, 26] for task allocation. Our extension of the Contract Net Protocol (1) enables an agent to manage several negotiation processes in parallel; (2) optimizes the length of the negotiation processes among agents; (3) reduces the contractors' decommitment situations; (4) enables the detection of failures of an agent participating in a negotiation process and prevents a negotiation process with blocked agents. |
| Keywords: | negotiation protocol contract net protocol multi-agent systems |
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