Reading List

• Introductory Material
  • Nwana, H. Software Agents: An Overview., Knowledge Engineering Review. vol. 11., no. 3., pp. 1-40. 1996.
  • Wooldridge, M. and Jennings, N. Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice Knowledge Engineering Review. vol. 10., no. 2., pp. 115-152. 1995.
• Agent Designs, Architectures, and Languages
  • Rieken, D. An Architecture of Integrated Agents. In: Bradshaw, J. (Ed.), Software Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/AAAI Press. 1997.
  • Shoham, Y. An Overview of Agent-Oriented Programming. Bradshaw, J. (Ed.), Software Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/AAAI Press. 1997.
  • Finin, T., Labrou, Y., and Mayfield, J. KQML as an Agent Communication Language. In: Bradshaw, J. (Ed.), Software Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/AAAI Press. 1997.
  • Bradshaw, J., Dutfield, S., Benoit, P., and Woolley, J. KAoS: Towards and Industrial Strength Open Agent Architecture. In: Bradshaw, J. (Ed.), Software Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/AAAI Press. 1997.
  • Cohen, P. and Levesque, H. Communicative Actions for Artificial Agents. In: Bradshaw, J. (Ed.), Software Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/AAAI Press. 1997.
  • White, J. Mobile Agents. In: Bradshaw, J. (Ed.), Software Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/AAAI Press. 1997.
  • O'Hare, G. Agent Factory: An Environment for the Fabrication of Multi-Agent Systems. In: O'Hare, G. and Jennings, N. Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence.
  • Russell, S. and Norvig, P.Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. New York: Prentice-Hall. 1995.
• Intelligent Agent Applications
  • Maes, P. Agents that Reduce Work and Information Overload. In: Bradshaw, J. (Ed.), Software Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/AAAI Press. 1997.
  • Genesereth, M. An Agent-based Framework for Interoperability. In: Bradshaw, J. (Ed.), Software Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/AAAI Press. 1997.
  • Knoblock, C., Ambite, J-L. Agents for Information Gathering. In: Bradshaw, J. (Ed.), Software Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/AAAI Press. 1997.
  • Schneiderman, B. Direct Manipulation versus Agents: Paths to Predictable and Comprehensible Interfaces. In: Bradshaw, J. (Ed.), Software Agents. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press/AAAI Press. 1997.
• Additional Information
  • AgentWeb by Tim Finin
  • Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory at Iowa State University