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.
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 ramifications of letting agents loose in an unpredictable world; solutions are also proposed." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.
Software Agents: An Overview - Classic Paper describing the history and various categories of Intelligent Software Agents.
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." Published in Crossroads, the ACM student magazine.