---
title: "The Contract Net: A Formalism for the Control of Distributed Problem Solving"
authors:
  - "Reid G. Smith"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/106"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/0106.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1977
pages: "472--1"
track: "Problem-solving and Search"
keywords:
---

# The Contract Net: A Formalism for the Control of Distributed Problem Solving

Reid G. Smith

*Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 472--1.

## Abstract