@inproceedings{Boloni-2000-BioSP, 
   author = "L. B{\"o}l{\"o}ni and D.C. Marinescu",
   title = "Agent surgery: The case for mutable agents",
   booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Bio-Inspired Solutions to
      Parallel Processing Problems (BioSP3)",
   location = "Cancun, Mexico", 
   month = "May",
   year = "2000",
   abstract = {We argue that mutable programs are
  an important class of future applications. The field of
  software agents is an important beneficiary of
  mutability. We evaluate existing mutable applications and
  discuss basic requirements to legitimize mutability techniques.
  Agent surgery supports runtime mutability in the
 agent framework of the Bond distributed object system.},
}