Introduction to Distributed Systems

• Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Steven Tuecke  The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations  International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 15(3), August 2001
• Robert Grimm, Janet Davis, Eric Lemar, Adam Macbeth, Steven Swanson, Thomas Anderson, Brian Bershad, Gaetano Borriello, Steven Gribble, David Wetherall  System Support for Pervasive Applications  ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 22(4), November 2004
• B. Clifford Neuman  Scale in Distributed Systems  Readings in Distributed Computing Systems, 1994

Software Architectures

• Ozalp Babaoglu, Márk Jelasity, Alberto Montresor, Christof Fetzer, Stefano Leonardi, Aad van Moorsel, Maarten van Steen (eds.)  Self-star Properties in Complex Information Systems: Conceptual and Practical Foundations  
• Jeffrey O. Kephart, David M. Chess  The Vision of Autonomic Computing  IEEE Computer 36(1), January 2003
• Philip K. McKinley, Seyed Masoud Sadjadi, Eric P. Kasten, Betty H.C. Cheng  Composing Adaptive Software  IEEE Computer 37(7), 2004

The Architecture of the World Wide Web

• Roy Thomas Fielding  Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures  
• Roy Thomas Fielding, Richard N. Taylor  Principled Design of the Modern Web Architecture  ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 2(2), May-June 2002

Processes in Distributed Systems

• Alfonso Fuggetta, Gian Pietro Picco, Giovanni Vigna  Understanding Code Mobility  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 24(5), May 1998
• Dejan S. Milojicic, Fred Douglis, Yves Paindaveine, Richard Wheeler, Songnian Zhou  Process Migration  ACM Computing Surveys 32(3), September 2000

Synchronisation

• Leslie Lamport  Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System  Communications of the ACM 21(7), 1978

Coordination-based Distributed Systems

• Matteo Casadei, Andrea Omicini  Situated Tuple Centres in ReSpecT  24th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009), 8-12 March 2009
• Martin Fredriksson, Rune Gustavsson  Online Engineering and Open Computational Systems  Methodologies and Software Engineering for Agent Systems: The Agent-Oriented Software Engineering Handbook, Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies, and Simulated Organization 11, 2004
• David Gelernter  Generative Communication in Linda  ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 7(1), January 1985
• David Gelernter, Nicholas Carriero  Coordination Languages and Their Significance  Communications of the ACM 35(2), 1992

• Dina Q. Goldin, Scott A. Smolka, Peter Wegner (eds.)  Interactive Computation: The New Paradigm  

• Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli  Programming Stigmergic Coordination with the TOTA Middleware  4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2005), 2005
• Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli, Letizia Leonardi  Co-fields: Towards a Unifying Approach to the Engineering of Swarm Intelligent Systems  Engineering Societies in the Agents World III, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2577, 2003
• Amy L. Murphy, Gian Pietro Picco, Gruia-Catalin Roman  Lime: A coordination model and middleware supporting mobility of hosts and agents  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 15(3), July 2006
• Andrea Omicini, Enrico Denti  From Tuple Spaces to Tuple Centres  Science of Computer Programming 41(3), nov 2001
• Andrea Omicini, Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli  Time-Aware Coordination in ReSpecT  Coordination Models and Languages, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3454, April 2005
• George A. Papadopoulos, Farhad Arbab  Coordination Models and Languages  The Engineering of Large Systems, Advances in Computers 46, 1998

Evolution of Computational Systems: The Paradigm Shift

• Thomas S. Kuhn  The Structure of Scientific Revolutions  
• Lucy A. Suchman  Situated Actions  Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication, 1987
• Peter Wegner  Why Interaction Is More Powerful Than Algorithms  Communications of the ACM 40(5), May 1997
• Franco Zambonelli, H. Van Dyke Parunak  Towards a Paradigm Change in Computer Science and Software Engineering: A Synthesis  The Knowledge Engineering Review 18(4), December 2003

Evolution of Programming Languages: Away from Objects

• James J. Odell  Objects and Agents Compared  Journal of Object Technology 1(1), May-June 2002

Evolution of Middleware: Towards Agents

• Andrea Omicini, Giovanni Rimassa  Towards Seamless Agent Middleware  13th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE 2004), 14-16 June 2004
• Mirko Viroli, Andrea Omicini  Coordination as a Service  Fundamenta Informaticae 73(4), 2006

The Many Agents Around

• Philip E. Agre  Computational Research on Interaction and Agency  Artificial Intelligence 72(1-2), January 1995
• Rodney A. Brooks  Intelligence without Representation  Artificial Intelligence 47, 1991
• Alfonso Fuggetta, Gian Pietro Picco, Giovanni Vigna  Understanding Code Mobility  IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 24(5), May 1998
• Gregory M.P. O'Hare, Nicholas R. Jennings (eds.)  Foundations of Distributed Artificial Intelligence  
• Andrea Omicini, Agostino Poggi  Multiagent Systems  Intelligenza Artificiale III(1-2), March-June 2006
• Stuart J. Russell, Peter Norvig  Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach  
• Michael J. Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings  Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice  Knowledge Engineering Review 10(2), June 1995

Agents: Definitions & Conceptual Framework

• Stan Franklin, Art Graesser  Is it an Agent, or Just a Program?: A Taxonomy for Autonomous Agents  Intelligent Agents III. Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1193, 1996
• James J. Odell  Objects and Agents Compared  Journal of Object Technology 1(1), May-June 2002
• Michael J. Wooldridge, Nicholas R. Jennings  Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice  Knowledge Engineering Review 10(2), June 1995