In: Proceedings of Web Engineering: 4th International Conference, ICWE 2004, Munich, Germany, July 26-30, 2004, pages 142-146. Volume 3140 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science --- Springer-Verlag, July 2004.
Abstract: 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.