Software agents are programs which autonomously pursue their own agenda.
In this paper we discuss the use of software agents for network-centric computing. We attempt to dispell the myth that network agents provide miraculous solution to the difficult problems of resource management, and nomadic computing and look at the agents as programs. We introduce a framework for network agents. Bond middleware provides a constructive approach to agent design. Doc 13 Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure - Foster, Eds et al.