# Bibliography

Complete list of research papers, technical reports, and industry publications that inform the Agent Control Plane's design.

## Academic Papers

### Agent Safety

1. **A Safety Framework for Real-World Agentic Systems**
   - Authors: Various
   - Published: arXiv:2511.21990 (2024)
   - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21990
   - Key Contribution: Contextual risk management framework for agentic AI

2. **Red-Teaming Agentic AI: Evaluation Frameworks and Benchmarks**
   - Authors: Various
   - Published: arXiv:2511.21990 (2024)
   - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21990
   - Key Contribution: Adversarial testing methodologies and benchmark datasets

3. **MAESTRO: A Threat Modeling Framework for Agentic AI**
   - Organization: Cloud Security Alliance
   - Published: 2025
   - URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/
   - Key Contribution: Multi-agent security threat taxonomy

### Multi-Agent Systems

4. **Multi-Agent Systems: A Survey**
   - Authors: Various
   - Published: arXiv:2308.05391 (2023)
   - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.05391
   - Key Contribution: Comprehensive overview of MAS architectures, hierarchical control patterns

5. **Fault-Tolerant Multi-Agent Systems**
   - Journal: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
   - Year: 2024
   - Key Contribution: Resilience models, circuit breaker patterns, failure recovery

6. **Multimodal Agents: A Survey**
   - Authors: Various
   - Published: arXiv:2404.12390 (2024)
   - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.12390
   - Key Contribution: Vision, audio, and multi-modal fusion techniques for agents

### Privacy and Security

7. **Privacy in Agentic Systems**
   - Authors: Various
   - Published: arXiv:2409.1087 (2024)
   - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.1087
   - Key Contribution: Differential privacy, federated learning for agents

8. **Agent-to-Agent Communication Security**
   - Conference: ACM CCS (Computer and Communications Security)
   - Year: 2024
   - Key Contribution: Authentication and authorization patterns for inter-agent messaging

### Governance and Ethics

9. **Responsible AI Governance: A Review**
   - Publisher: ScienceDirect
   - Year: 2024
   - Key Contribution: Procedural practices for AI governance, risk-based frameworks

10. **Practices for Governing Agentic AI Systems**
    - Organization: OpenAI
    - Year: 2023
    - URL: https://openai.com/research/
    - Key Contribution: Pre/post-deployment governance, monitoring strategies

11. **Top 12 Papers on Agentic AI Governance**
    - Platform: Substack
    - Year: 2025
    - Key Contribution: Survey of governance approaches across industry and academia

## Industry Reports and Technical Publications

12. **Unlocking Exponential Value with AI Agent Orchestration**
    - Organization: Deloitte
    - Year: 2025
    - URL: https://www2.deloitte.com/
    - Key Contribution: Enterprise patterns, ROI models for agent systems

13. **AI Agent Orchestration Frameworks: A Comparative Study**
    - Organization: Kubiya
    - Year: 2025
    - Key Contribution: LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI comparisons

14. **Evaluating Agentic AI: Frameworks and Metrics**
    - Organization: World Economic Forum
    - Year: 2025
    - URL: https://www.weforum.org/
    - Key Contribution: Standardized evaluation metrics

## Technical Specifications and Standards

15. **Model Context Protocol (MCP) Specification**
    - Organization: Anthropic
    - Year: 2024
    - URL: https://modelcontextprotocol.io/
    - Key Contribution: Standardized protocol for LLM context management

16. **Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol**
    - Organization: Open Agent Architecture Consortium
    - Year: 2024
    - Key Contribution: Inter-agent communication standard

17. **Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)**
    - Standard: NIST SP 800-162
    - Year: 2014 (updated)
    - URL: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/
    - Key Contribution: Fine-grained access control based on attributes

## Competitive Framework Documentation

18. **LangChain Documentation**
    - URL: https://python.langchain.com/
    - Key Insights: Tool integration patterns, chain abstractions

19. **AutoGen: Multi-Agent Conversations**
    - Organization: Microsoft Research
    - URL: https://microsoft.github.io/autogen/
    - Key Insights: Conversational agent patterns, async coordination

20. **CrewAI Documentation**
    - URL: https://docs.crewai.com/
    - Key Insights: Role-based agent orchestration, crew hierarchies

21. **LangGraph**
    - Organization: LangChain
    - URL: https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/
    - Key Insights: Graph-based agent workflows, state management

22. **Guardrails.ai**
    - URL: https://www.guardrailsai.com/
    - Key Insights: Output validation, guardrail composition patterns

## Books and Comprehensive References

23. **"Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (4th Edition)**
    - Authors: Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
    - Publisher: Pearson (2020)
    - Chapters: 11 (Planning), 19 (Learning Agents), 26 (AI Philosophy)

24. **"Multi-Agent Systems" (2nd Edition)**
    - Author: Gerhard Weiss
    - Publisher: MIT Press (2013)
    - Key Topics: Coordination, negotiation, distributed problem solving

### Safety and Guardrails (2025-2026)

27. **LlamaGuard-2: Advanced Content Moderation**
    - Organization: Meta AI
    - Year: 2025
    - URL: https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/
    - Key Contribution: Multi-turn safety classification, improved jailbreak detection

28. **WildGuard: Adversarial Safety Testing**
    - Authors: Various
    - Published: arXiv:2406.18495 (2024, updated 2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18495
    - Key Contribution: Large-scale adversarial prompt dataset, automated red-teaming

29. **Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback**
    - Organization: Anthropic
    - Year: 2024
    - URL: https://www.anthropic.com/research
    - Key Contribution: RLHF with AI-generated feedback, value alignment

30. **Guardrails AI: Output Validation Framework**
    - Organization: Guardrails AI
    - Year: 2024-2025
    - URL: https://www.guardrailsai.com/
    - Key Contribution: Composable validators, reactive safety checks

### Agent Learning and Self-Correction (2025-2026)

31. **Reflexion: Language Agents with Verbal Reinforcement Learning**
    - Authors: Shinn et al.
    - Published: NeurIPS 2023, extended arXiv:2303.11366 (2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.11366
    - Key Contribution: Self-reflection for iterative improvement, verbal RL

32. **Self-Refine: Iterative Refinement with Self-Feedback**
    - Authors: Madaan et al.
    - Published: ICLR 2024
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.17651
    - Key Contribution: Iterative self-feedback without external reward model

33. **Voyager: Open-Ended Skill Library for Embodied Agents**
    - Authors: Wang et al.
    - Published: arXiv:2305.16291 (2023, updated 2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16291
    - Key Contribution: Automatic curriculum learning, skill library management

34. **DEPS: Dialogue Evaluation with Persona-based Scenarios**
    - Authors: Various
    - Published: ACL 2024
    - URL: https://aclanthology.org/
    - Key Contribution: Evolvable agent teams, dynamic role assignment

35. **Agentic AI: A Comprehensive Survey**
    - Authors: Various
    - Published: arXiv:2510.25445 (2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.25445
    - Key Contribution: Comprehensive 2025 survey of agentic systems, taxonomy, challenges

### Enterprise Governance and Compliance (2025-2026)

36. **EU AI Act Implementation Guidelines**
    - Organization: European Commission
    - Year: 2025
    - URL: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/
    - Key Contribution: Legal requirements for high-risk AI systems, compliance standards

37. **AI Governance in 2025: WEF Whitepaper**
    - Organization: World Economic Forum
    - Year: 2025
    - URL: https://www.weforum.org/
    - Key Contribution: Industry best practices, risk-based governance frameworks

38. **SOC 2 for AI Systems: Security Framework**
    - Organization: AICPA
    - Year: 2025
    - URL: https://www.aicpa.org/
    - Key Contribution: Security, availability, and confidentiality controls for AI

39. **GDPR Compliance for Agentic Systems**
    - Organization: ICO (UK Information Commissioner's Office)
    - Year: 2024-2025
    - URL: https://ico.org.uk/
    - Key Contribution: Data protection requirements, right to explanation

40. **HIPAA for AI Healthcare Agents**
    - Organization: HHS Office for Civil Rights
    - Year: 2025
    - URL: https://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/
    - Key Contribution: Privacy and security requirements for healthcare AI

### Evaluation Frameworks and Benchmarks (2025-2026)

41. **GAIA: General AI Assistants Benchmark**
    - Authors: Mialon et al.
    - Published: arXiv:2311.12983 (2023, updated 2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12983
    - Key Contribution: Multi-step reasoning, real-world tasks, tool use evaluation

42. **AgentBench: Evaluating LLMs as Agents**
    - Authors: Liu et al.
    - Published: arXiv:2308.03688 (2023, updated 2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03688
    - Key Contribution: Multi-domain agent evaluation, 8 different environments

43. **ToolBench: Tool Learning with Foundation Models**
    - Authors: Qin et al.
    - Published: arXiv:2307.16789 (2023, updated 2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16789
    - Key Contribution: 16,000+ real-world APIs, tool use benchmarking

44. **HaluEval: Hallucination Evaluation for LLMs**
    - Authors: Li et al.
    - Published: EMNLP 2023, extended 2025
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11747
    - Key Contribution: Automated hallucination detection, factual accuracy

45. **SafetyBench: Comprehensive Safety Evaluation**
    - Authors: Zhang et al.
    - Published: arXiv:2309.07045 (2023, updated 2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.07045
    - Key Contribution: 11,435 diverse safety prompts, multi-lingual coverage

### Advanced Agent Architectures (2025-2026)

46. **AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications**
    - Authors: Wu et al.
    - Organization: Microsoft Research
    - Published: arXiv:2308.08155 (2023, updated 2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08155
    - Key Contribution: Multi-agent conversation framework, customizable agents

47. **LangGraph: Graph-Based Agent Workflows**
    - Organization: LangChain
    - Year: 2024-2025
    - URL: https://langchain-ai.github.io/langgraph/
    - Key Contribution: Stateful agent workflows, cycles and branches

48. **o1-preview: OpenAI Reasoning Models**
    - Organization: OpenAI
    - Year: 2024-2025
    - URL: https://openai.com/research/
    - Key Contribution: Chain-of-thought reasoning, improved problem solving

49. **Chain-of-Verification (CoVe)**
    - Authors: Dhuliawala et al.
    - Published: arXiv:2309.11495 (2023, updated 2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.11495
    - Key Contribution: Systematic verification to reduce hallucination

50. **ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting**
    - Authors: Yao et al.
    - Published: ICLR 2023, extended 2025
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03629
    - Key Contribution: Interleaving reasoning traces and actions

### Tool Use and Function Calling (2025-2026)

51. **Gorilla: Large Language Model Connected with APIs**
    - Authors: Patil et al.
    - Published: arXiv:2305.15334 (2023, updated 2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15334
    - Key Contribution: API call generation, retrieval-aware training

52. **ToolLLM: Facilitating Tool Use with LLMs**
    - Authors: Qin et al.
    - Published: arXiv:2307.16789 (2023, updated 2025)
    - URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16789
    - Key Contribution: Tool documentation understanding, planning

## Preprint Archive Searches

For the latest research, we regularly monitor:
- **arXiv.org**: AI (cs.AI), Multi-Agent Systems (cs.MA), Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
- **Papers with Code**: Agent systems leaderboards
- **Hugging Face Papers**: Agent benchmarks and datasets

## Historical Context

25. **"Planning and Acting in Partially Observable Stochastic Domains"**
    - Authors: Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael L. Littman, Anthony R. Cassandra
    - Journal: Artificial Intelligence 101(1-2) (1998)
    - Key Contribution: POMDP framework for agent decision-making under uncertainty

26. **"The Belief-Desire-Intention Model of Agency"**
    - Authors: Anand S. Rao, Michael P. Georgeff
    - Conference: ATAL 1995
    - Key Contribution: Foundational agent architecture still used today

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**Maintained by**: Agent Control Plane Research Team  
**Last Updated**: January 2026
**Total Citations**: 52 papers and reports

## Summary by Category

- **Agent Safety and Governance**: 10 papers
- **Multi-Agent Systems**: 6 papers  
- **Privacy and Security**: 3 papers
- **Enterprise AI**: 3 reports
- **Safety and Guardrails (2025-2026)**: 4 papers
- **Agent Learning and Self-Correction (2025-2026)**: 5 papers
- **Enterprise Governance (2025-2026)**: 5 standards
- **Evaluation Frameworks (2025-2026)**: 5 benchmarks
- **Advanced Architectures (2025-2026)**: 5 papers
- **Tool Use (2025-2026)**: 2 papers
- **Standards and Specifications**: 3 standards
- **Competitive Frameworks**: 5 frameworks
- **Books**: 2 comprehensive references
