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. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.
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Vokřínek, J., Bíba, J., Hodík, J., Vybíhal, J., & Pěchouček, M. (2007). Competitive contract net protocol. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 4362 LNCS, pp. 656–668). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69507-3_57
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