@Article{aknine04a,
  author =	 {Samir Aknine and Suzanne Pinson and Melvin
                  F. Shakun},
  title =	 {An Extended Multi-Agent Negotiation Protocol},
  googleid =	 {yggocRpzCfMJ:scholar.google.com/},
  journal =	 {Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems},
  year =	 2004,
  volume =	 8,
  number =	 1,
  pages =	 {5--45},
  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 =     {multiagent negotiation},
  url =		 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/aknine04a.pdf},
  doi =		 {10.1023/B:AGNT.0000009409.19387.f8},
  comment =	 {masrg},
  cluster = 	 {17512655183411677386}
}