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Reid G. Smith and the Contract Net Protocol: Negotiation as Agent Coordination

Reid G. Smith's Contract Net Protocol made negotiation a concrete mechanism for allocating tasks among distributed problem solvers, creating a durable pattern for multi-agent coordination.

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