\begin{thebibliography}{}

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Austin}{62}]{Aust62}
Austin, J.
\newblock {\em How to do things with words}.
\newblock Technical report, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1962.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Cardelli}{94}]{Card94}
Cardelli, L.
\newblock {\em Obliq: A Language with Distributed Scope}.
\newblock Technical report, Digital Equipment Corporation, Systems Research
  Center, Palo Alto, California, Juni 1994.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{{De Michelis} \bgroup et al.\egroup
  }{97}]{DDJ+97}
{De Michelis}, Giorgio, Dubois, Eric, Jarke, Matthias, Matthes, Florian,
  Mylopoulos, John, Papazoglou, Mike, Pohl, Klaus, Schmidt, Joachim, Woo,
  Carson, and Yu, Eric.
\newblock {\em Cooperative Information Systems: A Manifesto}.
\newblock In: Papazoglou, Mike~P. and Schlageter, Gunther (Eds.). {\em
  Cooperative Information System: Trends and Directions}. Academic Press, 1997.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Flores \bgroup et al.\egroup }{88}]{FGHW88}
Flores, F., Graves, M., Hartfield, B., and Winograd, T.
\newblock {\em Computer Systems and the Design of Organizational Interaction}.
\newblock ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, Jg. 6, 1988, Nr. 2,
  S. 153--172.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Gamma \bgroup et al.\egroup }{95}]{GHJV95}
Gamma, E., Helm, R., Johnson, R., and Vlissades, J.
\newblock {\em Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software}.
\newblock Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{General Magic}{95}]{GM95a}
{\em General Magic's Telescript home page} .
\newblock \\ http://www.genmagic.com/Telescript/, 1995.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{GMI95}{95}]{GMI95}
General Magic, Inc.
\newblock {\em Telescript Devloper Environment, Version 1.0 alpha}, Oktober
  1995.
\newblock Internet WordWideWeb, see General Magic homepage.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Haddadi}{95}]{Had95}
Haddadi, Afsaneh.
\newblock {\em Communication and Cooperation in Agent Systems}.
\newblock Springer-Verlag, 1995.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Hohl}{95}]{Hoh95}
Hohl, Fritz.
\newblock {\em {Konzeption eines einfachen Agentensystems und Implementation
  eines Prototyps}}.
\newblock Diplomarbeit, Universitaet Stuttgart, Abteilung Verteilte Systeme,
  August 1995.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Johannisson}{97}]{Joha97}
Johannisson, Nico.
\newblock {\em An environment for mobile agents: agent-oriented distributed
  databases}.
\newblock Diplomarbeit, Fachbereich Informatik, Universit\"at Hamburg, Germany,
  April 1997.
\newblock (In German).

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Knabe}{95}]{Kna95}
Knabe, Frederick~Colville.
\newblock {\em Language Support for Mobile Agents}.
\newblock Dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213,
  Oktober 1995.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Mathiske \bgroup et al.\egroup }{95}]{MMS95b}
Mathiske, B., Matthes, F., and Schmidt, J.W.
\newblock {\em Scaling Database Languages to Higher-Order Distributed
  Programming}.
\newblock In: {\em Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Database
  Programming Languages, Gubbio, Italy}. Springer-Verlag, September 1995.
\newblock (Also appeared as TR FIDE/95/137).

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Mathiske \bgroup et al.\egroup }{96}]{MMS96b}
Mathiske, B., Matthes, F., and Schmidt, J.W.
\newblock {\em On Migrating Threads}.
\newblock Jg. 8, 1996, Nr. 2.
\newblock Journal of Intelligent Information Systems.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Mathiske}{96}]{Math96}
Mathiske, B.
\newblock {\em Mobility in Persistent Object Systems}.
\newblock Dissertation, Fachbereich Informatik, Universit\"at Hamburg, Germany,
  Mai 1996.
\newblock (in German).

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Matthes \bgroup et al.\egroup }{97}]{MSS95}
Matthes, F., Schr{\"o}der, G., and Schmidt, J.W.
\newblock {\em {Tycoon}: A Scalable and Interoperable Persistent System
  Environment}.
\newblock In: Atkinson, M.P. (Ed.). {\em Fully Integrated Data Environments}.
  Springer-Verlag (to appear), 1997.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Matthes, Schmidt}{94}]{MaSc94}
Matthes, F. and Schmidt, J.W.
\newblock {\em Persistent Threads}.
\newblock In: {\em Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on
  Very Large Data Bases, VLDB}, Santiago, Chile, September 1994, S. 403--414.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Medina-Mora \bgroup et al.\egroup
  }{92}]{MWFF92}
Medina-Mora, R., Winograd, T., Flores, R., and Flores, F.
\newblock {\em The Action Workflow Approach to Workflow Management Technology}.
\newblock In: Turner, J. and Kraut, R. (Eds.). {\em Proceedings of the Fourth
  Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work}. ACM Press, 1992, S.
  281--288.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{MSMQ95}{95}]{MSMQ95}
{\em {Microsoft Message Queue Server (MSMQ). A White Paper from the Business
  Systems Technologie Series}}.
\newblock Technical report, Microsoft Corporation, 1995.
\newblock http://www.microsoft.com/msmq/overview.htm.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Orfali \bgroup et al.\egroup }{96}]{OHE96}
Orfali, Robert, Harkey, Dan, and Edwards, Jeri.
\newblock {\em The Essential Distributed Objects Survival Guide}.
\newblock John Wiley \& Sons, 1996.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Otte \bgroup et al.\egroup }{96}]{OPM96}
Otte, R., Patrick, P., and Roy, M.
\newblock {\em Understanding CORBA: the Common Object Request Broker
  Architecture}.
\newblock Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1996.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Rose}{93}]{Ros93}
Rose, Marshall~T.
\newblock {\em {MIME Extensions for Mail-Enabled Applications:
  application/Safe-Tcl and multipart/enabled-mail}} .
\newblock Internet WWW, 1993.
\newblock working draft.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Searle}{69}]{Sear69}
Searle, J.
\newblock {\em Speech Acts}.
\newblock Technical report, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1969.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{White}{94}]{Whit94}
White, J.E.
\newblock {\em Telescript Technology: The Foundation for the Electronic
  Marketplace}.
\newblock White paper, General Magic Inc., Mountain View, California, USA,
  1994.

\bibitem[\protect\citeauthoryear{Winograd}{87}]{Wino87}
Winograd, T.A.
\newblock {\em A Language/Action Perspective on the Design of Cooperative
  Work}.
\newblock Technical Report Report No. STAN-CS-87-1158, Stanford University, Mai
  1987.

\end{thebibliography}