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Further Readings:

Berreby, D. 1998. Bickering, bidding and brokering. IBM Research (No. 1&2):26. (Available at http://www.research.ibm.com/resources/magazine/.)

Bradshaw, J., ed. 1997. Software Agents. Cambridge, Mass.: AAAI Press/MIT Press.

Leonard, A. 1998. Bots: The Origin of New Species. New York: Penguin.

Maes, P. 1995. Artificial life meets entertainment: Autonomous agents. Communications of the ACM 38(November):108.

Peterson, I. 1997. Silicon champions of the game. Science News 152(Aug. 2):76.

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Ward, M. 1998. There's an ant in my phone. New Scientist (Jan. 24):32.

Additional information about IBM's Information Economies Project is available at http://www.research.ibm.com/infoecon/.

Additional information about the RETSINA project at Carnegie Mellon University can be found at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~softagents.

The software agents group at the MIT Media Laboratory has a Web site at http://agents.www.media.mit.edu/groups/agents/.

Learn about the software agents mailing list at http://www.csee.umbc.edu/agentlist/.

Information about the Third International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents '99), to be held in May 1999 in Seattle, is available at http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/agents99.

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