Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet: an inventory of currently offered functionality in the information society & a prediction of (near-)future developments by Björn Hermans __________ "[ .] Agents are here to stay, not least because of their diversity, their wide range of applicability and the broad spectrum of companies investing in them. As we move further and further into the information age, any information-based organisation which does not invest in agent technology may be committing commercial hara-kiri." Hyacinth S. Nwana in [NWAN96] __________ Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands, the 9 th of July 1996 1 Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet Table of Contents http://www.hermans.org/ag ents Table of Contents Table of Contents . the 9 th of July 1996 1 Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet Table of Contents http://www.hermans.org/ag ents Table of Contents Table of Contents. Intelligent Software Agents on the Internet: an inventory of currently offered functionality in the information society & a prediction of (near-)future