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A Task-Swap Negotiation Protocol Based on the Contract Net Paradigm Matteo Golfarelli, Dario Maio, Stefano Rizzi DEIS, CSITE - Università di Bologna Viale Risorgimento, 2 40136 Bologna, Italy Abstract In this paper we propose a market-like negotiation protocol which extends the well- known Contract Net Protocol to cope with domains where