...an immense risk due to hacker threat or careless company security. To then hand your credit card details to an autonomoussoftware agent who will go and make purchasing decisions on your behalf takes a great leap of faith. It will be up to the...
http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2000/10/20/179207/secret-agent.htm
...Jennings et al., 1998). Software agents and related technology have implications for software engineering. As autonomoussoftware entities, agents represent potential components in a software system. The advanced agent communication mechanisms...
http://www.open.org.au/Conferences/oopsla2002/Whitepaper.pdf