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Revision as of 08:01, 29 August 2015
In computer science, a software agent is a computer program that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency.
Such "action on behalf of" implies the authority to decide which, if any, action is appropriate.
Related and derived concepts include:
- Intelligent agents (in particular exhibiting some aspect of artificial intelligence, such as learning and reasoning)
- Autonomous agents (capable of modifying the way in which they achieve their objectives)
- Distributed agents (being executed on physically distinct computers)
- Multi-agent systems (distributed agents that do not have the capabilities to achieve an objective alone and thus must communicate)
- Mobile agents (agents that can relocate their execution onto different processors)
Etymology
The word agency derives from the Latin agere (to do): an agreement to act on one's behalf.
External links
- Software agent @ Wikipedia
