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Contract net protocol can be implemented by exploiting the Web Service technologies. However, the lack of a process model in contract net protocol to capture the interactions between the bidder and manager agents makes it difficult to analyze the feasibility of the resulting contracts. We proposed a framework to execute contract net protocol based on Web Services technologies and a Petri net model to analyze the contract net negotiation results.
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Hsieh, FS. (2004). Modeling and Analysis of Contract Net Protocol. In: Koch, N., Fraternali, P., Wirsing, M. (eds) Web Engineering. ICWE 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27834-4_18
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