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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