Everything about Software agent

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Software agentA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems for Software Engineering: Literature Review, Vision, and the Road AheadInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Distributed Sensor NetworksThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development MethodologyCited 1,098 times
5. Go sideways: Autonomous agentA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: ChatbotA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology

  Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini · 2004 · Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems · 1,098 citations

• On agent-based software engineering

  Nicholas R. Jennings · 2000 · Artificial Intelligence · 1,026 citations

• Agent-based software engineering

  M. Wooldridge · 1997 · IEE Proceedings - Software Engineering · 446 citations

• Building an expert travel agent as a software agent

  Silvia Schiaffino, Analía Amandi · 2009 · Expert Systems with Applications · 75 citations

• A Software Agent Model of Consciousness

  Stan Franklin, Art Graesser · 1999 · Consciousness and Cognition · 49 citations

• Agent orientation in software engineering

  GERHARD WEIß · 2001 · The Knowledge Engineering Review · 47 citations

• Agent-oriented software engineering

  CAROLE BERNON, MASSIMO COSSENTINO, JUAN PAVÓN · 2005 · The Knowledge Engineering Review · 40 citations

• Understanding Agent-Oriented Software Engineering methodologies

  Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, Rubén Fuentes-Fernández · 2015 · The Knowledge Engineering Review · 25 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems for Software Engineering: Literature Review, Vision, and the Road Ahead

  Junda He, Christoph Treude, David Lo · 2025 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 304 citations

• Overview of Software Agent Platforms Available in 2023

  Zofia Wrona, Wojciech Buchwald, Maria Ganzha · 2023 · Information · 30 citations

• A DQN-based agent for automatic software refactoring

  Hamidreza Ahmadi, Mehrdad Ashtiani, Mohammad Abdollahi Azgomi · 2022 · Information and Software Technology · 12 citations

• Toward efficient vibe coding: An LLM-based agent for low-code software development

  Nikolaos Malamas, Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Konstantinos Panayiotou · 2025 · Journal of Computer Languages · 10 citations

• A Multi-Agent RAG Framework for Regulatory Compliance Checking of Software Requirements

  Souvick Das, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki · 2026 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 7 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Distributed Sensor NetworksS. Sitharama Iyengar, Richard R. Brooks · 2004
• Agents and Artificial IntelligenceJaap van den Herik, Ana Paula Rocha · 2015
• Introduction to MultiAgent SystemsMichael Wooldridge · 2002
• Agent cultureSabine Payr, Robert Trappl · 2004
• 📕Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in ConstructionChimay Anumba, Zhaomin Ren · 2005
• Argumentation in multi-agent systemsIyad Rahwan · 2005
• Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous SystemsJan Hodicky · 2014
• Developing multi-agent systems with jadeFabio Luigi Bellifemine, Giovanni Caire · 2007

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