References

1

Michael L. Best. An ecology of the net: message morphology and evolution in NetNews. Master's thesis, MIT Media Lab, 1996. Machine Understanding Technical Report 96-001.
Ecological metaphors for the dynamics of memes on Usenet.

2

Jon Bosak. XML, Java, and the future of the Web, March 1997.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/sun-info/standards/xml/why/xmlapps.html
A summary of XML with a concentration on adding dynamic behavior to the Web.

3

K. Mani Chandy, Joseph Kiniry, Adam Rifkin, and Daniel Zimmerman. Framework for structured distributed object computing. submitted to Parallel Computing, 1997.
http://www.infospheres.caltech.edu/papers/framework/framework.html
Requirements and architecture of Infospheres, a distributed objects framework.

4

K. Mani Chandy, Adam Rifkin, Paolo A.G. Sivilotti, Jacob Mandelson, Matthew Richardson, Wesley Tanaka, and Luke Weisman. A world-wide distributed system using Java and the Internet. Technical report, Caltech Computer Science, 1996. Caltech CS Technical Report CS-TR-96-0.
http://www.infospheres.caltech.edu/papers/chandy_etal/hpdc.html
Requirements and architecture of Infospheres, a distributed objects framework.

5

Daniel Chang and Danny Lange. Mobile agents: A new paradigm for distributed object computing on the WWW, December 1995. Submitted to OOPSLA '96.
http://www.trl.ibm.co.jp/aglets/ma.html
Mobile agents for distributed computation.

6

dist-obj FAQ and mailing list archives.
http://www.infospheres.caltech.edu/mailing_lists/dist-obj/distobjgroup.html
A community of researchers working on radical distributed object computing.

7

Judith Donath. Inhabiting the virtual city: The design of social environments for electronic communities. PhD thesis, MIT Media Arts and Sciences, 1997.
http://judith.www.media.mit.edu/Thesis/
Issues of representing presence and representing community online.

8

David Gelernter. Mirror Worlds. Oxford University Press, 1991.
Conceptions of complex systems of distributed computation.

9

Colin G. Harrison, David M. Chess, and Aaron Kershenbaum. Mobile agents: Are they a good idea? Technical report, IBM TJ Watson, 1995.
http://www.research.ibm.com/massive/mobag.ps
Presents various arguments for mobile agents: while no one claim is compelling, the collection is persuasive.

10

B. A. Huberman, editor. The Ecology of Computation. Elsevier Science Publishers, 1988.
Collection of papers about applying ecological metaphors to computation.

11

Kevin Kelley. Out of Control. Addison-Wesley, 1994.
Ecological metaphors for complex systems of distributed computation.

12

Danny B. Lange and Daniel T. Chang. IBM Aglets workbench: Programming mobile agents in Java, September 1996.
http://www.trl.ibm.co.jp/aglets/whitepaper.htm
White paper: an overview of the aglets architecture.

13

Andrew Leonard. Bots: The Origin of New Species. Hardwired, 1997.
Stories about the complex interactions of programs on the Internet.

14

MAS 964: Principles of visual interface design, Spring 1997.
http://acg.media.mit.edu/courses/spring97/mas964/
Media Lab course on graphic design in Java.

15

Nelson Minar. Floyd, a global network of communicating agents. 1995.
http://www.santafe.edu/~nelson/ccr/floyd/floyd/floyd.html
A paper describing earlier research in representing presence with distributed agents.

16

Nelson Minar. Computational media for mobile agents. December 1996.
http://nelson.www/people/nelson/research/dc/
Design of a system for using mobile agents to use idle CPU cycles.

17

Tom S. Ray. A proposal to create a network-wide biodiversity reserve for digital organisms. Technical report, ATR, 1995.
http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/~ray/pubs/reserves/reserves.html
A plan for building a networked ecology of evolving programs.

18

Mitchel Resnick. Turtles, Turmites, and Traffic Jams. MIT Press, 1994.
Ecological computing and complicated interactions between multiple software agents.

19

Mirabilis Software. ICQ.
http://www.icq.com/
An Internet chat and presence system.

20

Objectspace Voyager core package version 1.0 technical overview, 1997.
http://www.objectspace.com/voyager/VoyagerTechOview.pdf
Description of the Voyager distributed objects framework.

21

J.E. White. Telescript technology: The foundation for the electronic marketplace, 1996.
http://www.genmagic.com/Telescript/Whitepapers/wp1/whitepaper-1.html
Overview of Telescript infrastructure, a very early mobile agent system.