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Contract Net Protocol
Foundational task-announcement, bid, and award protocol for multi-agent systems.
Definition
The Contract Net Protocol is a 1980-vintage but still widely used pattern in which a manager announces a task, agents submit bids, and the manager awards the contract. It is the conceptual ancestor of most modern swarm allocators and remains useful for clearly traceable, audit-friendly assignment in CCA-class systems.
Reference attributes
- Origin
- Smith, 1980
- Phases
- Announce, bid, award, confirm
Related terms
#allocation#multi-agent