The Contract Net Protocol: High-Level Communication and Control in a Distributed Problem Solver

1980 · IEEE Transactions on Computers · 3,711 citations · 3 from inside this corpus

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What cites it, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Software agents: an overview	1996	1,591
Formalising Trust as a Computational Concept	1994	1,446
An Introduction to Multi-Agent Systems	2010	1,383

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Topics

Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation	Computer Science
Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge	Computer Science
Mobile Agent-Based Network Management	Computer Science

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