I would say An Agent-Oriented Programming by Yoav Shoham. It certainly set my mind going and made me think about how programs could be organized. I still thin

I would say An Agent-Oriented Programming by Yoav Shoham. It certainly set my mind going and made me think about how programs could be organized. I still think, agents, systems of agents, and mobile agent code has a place in computing. Even though some form of RPC over HTTP won over mobile code, I look at the spinning up of VMs and cannot help but think that agents have a place. Combined with the tuple space stuff from Yale, I still see a powerful way to go forward. 1) 1990 http://cife.stanford.edu/node/599 http://cife.stanford.edu/node/599 2) 1993 http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/ioerger/cs631-fall05/AOP.pdf http://faculty.cs.tamu.edu/ioerger/cs631-fall05/AOP.pdf