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Contract Net task bidding

Recorded year1980

Reid Smith's Contract Net Protocol (December 1980) lets software agents announce tasks, bid for them and hand each job to the best bidder.

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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.