Adapting the contract net protocol for publish/subscribe messaging
Document Type
Book chapter
Source Publication
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, HPCS 2013
Publication Date
10-21-2013
First Page
139
Last Page
142
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Keywords
agent, negotiation, Publish/Subscribe, task allocation
Abstract
The contract net protocol (CNP) is widely adopted in agent-based systems for task allocation in a distributed environment. Conventional CNP requires only simple messaging services such as direct addressing and broadcasting. Publish/subscribe (P/S) is a highly flexible middleware-based messaging service for distributed applications. Previous experiments on incorporating P/S into agent-based systems for task allocation have shown interesting ways to adapt the conventional CNP with potential performance advantages. The paper first reviews some previous adaptations to CNP in generic terms without any application details. It then introduces a new further step to the adaptations to obtain fully distributed bid selection in the task selection process.
DOI
10.1109/HPCSim.2013.6641404
Publisher Statement
Copyright © 2013 IEEE. Access to external full text or publisher's version may require subscription.
Additional Information
ISBN of the source publication: 9781479908356
Full-text Version
Publisher’s Version
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Yeung, W. L. (2013). Adapting the contract net protocol for publish/subscribe messaging. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation, HPCS 2013 (pp.139-142). Helsinki: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. doi: 10.1109/HPCSim.2013.6641404