Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet - Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet: an inventory of currently offered functionality in the information society & a prediction of (near-)future developments. - http://www.hermans.org/agents/index.html
Agent Research Paper Clearing House - This page gives an well organized overview of agent research papers, provided by AgentLink - http://www.agentlink.org/resources/clearing-house-view.html
Software Agents: An Overview - Classic Paper describing the history and various categories of Intelligent Software Agents. - http://www.sce.carleton.ca/netmanage/docs/AgentsOverview/ao.html
Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice - Fundamental Paper in Intelligent Agent Research by M. Wooldridge and N.R. Jennings (PostScript) - http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~nrj/download-files/KE-REVIEW-95.ps
Web Hunting: Design of a Simple Intelligent Web Search Agent - "The goal of this article is to introduce the reader to the basic elements of an intelligent agent, and then apply those elements to a Web search agent to provide the framework for the construction of a simple intelligent Web search agent." Pub - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-4/webhunting.html
Emotionware - "Why emotions might be useful to have, and touch on what would be involved in developing the emotional side of an intelligent agent." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine. - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds3-1/emotware.html
AgentOS: The Agent-based Distributed Operating System for Mobile Networks - "Agent-based communication paradigms have shown enormous potential for operating in unpredictable, metamorphic environments, such as mobile computing networks." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine. - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-2/agentos.html
Protecting the Integrity of Agents: An Exploration into Letting Agents Loose in an Unpredictable World - "Strategies must be developed to protect the integrity of agents. With the use of this new technology in safety-critical applications, better ways of engineering agent-based systems must be devised. In this paper, we discuss these issues and the ram - http://www.acm.org/crossroads/xrds5-4/integrity.html