Agent - in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

In Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence

  • Agent architecture, blueprint for software agents and intelligent control systems, depicting the arrangement of components
  • Agent-based model, computational model for simulating the actions and interactions of autonomous individuals with a view to assessing their effects on the system as a whole
  • Intelligent agent, autonomous entity which observes and acts upon an environment and directs its activity towards achieving goals
  • Software agent, piece of software that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency
    • Forté Agent, email and Usenet news client used on the Windows operating system
    • User agent, the client application used with a particular network protocol

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