What is Agent

A representation of an individual, a vehicle or a machine in simulation. Each agent has unique characteristics, and during a simulation, each agent behaves independently, based on a behavioral model.

An Agent is a computational entity that acts on behalf of other entities in an autonomous fashion; and exhibits properties like learning, cooperation, and mobility to a certain extent.

Term given to individual and collective human resources of organizations

Collective name of a human or technical entity that takes active part in the information flow and in relationships of trust.

A system that is capable of perceiving events in its environment, or representing information about the current state of affairs and of acting in its environment guided by perceptions and stored information (current definition by AOIS, agent oriented information system community).

An active entity that can act, perceive, and reason.

An agent receives input from the environment through its sensors and interacts with the environment to try and achieve some goal.

Computer-animated character controlled by an algorithm or artificial intelligence.

a software entity situated in an environment and capable of acting to change the environment.

A computer system situated in some environment that is capable of autonomous action in this environment to meets its design objective.

A piece of software, which acts to accomplish tasks on behalf of its user.

An agent is a piece of software that acts to accomplish tasks on behalf of its user.

A participant in a distributed computation, having its own constraints.

A convenient metaphor for building software to interact with the range and diversity of online resources is that of an agent. An agent is a program that performs some task on your behalf. You expect an agent to act even if all the details are not specified or if the situation changes. You expect an agent to communicate effectively with other agents. Using agents adds a layer of abstraction that localizes decisions about dealing with local peculiarities of format, knowledge conventions, and so forth, and thus helps to understand and manage complexity.

A model entity that is able to perform roles and hence to carry out activities. An agent may be human, automated, or some combination of both.

A software entity which can perform tasks autonomously, capable of making independent decisions, and taking actions to satisfy internal goals based upon its perceived environment.

A software program scripted to perform particular actions. An “intelligent agent” is a software agent that interacts with other agents within the context of an immersive environment, based on scripted characteristics. An intelligent agent may interact with human users, too. A “pedagogical agent” interacts to promote learning.

An agent in legal terminology is a person who has been legally authorized to act on behalf of another person or entity. An agent may be appointed to represent the client in negotiations and other transactions with third parties. The agent may be given decision-making authority.

The individual undertaking an act in a scene, one of the Pentadic elements.

Autonomous software or hardware entity loosely coupled into a multi-agent system. Operation of an agent-based system is based on collaborative (or sometimes self-interested) interactions of agents.

An agent is a system that maintains a computational model of goal-directed and adaptive behavior. For the purposes of this chapter, we use agent to specifically refer to software systems.

Either a human or a computer-simulated participant in a collaborative problem solving group.

The entity to decide the task, find the resource and generate the action to obtain the task.

Human or artificial (or hybrid) element involved and acting in planning or decision-making exercises.

An agent is anything that can perceive its environment through sensors and act on environment through effectors... An ideal rational agent performs a sequence of actions (life output history) which maximizes the expected and performs measure given evidence of the percept sequence and built-in knowledge... additional vital trait: autonomy, ability to learn.

The word agent has many meanings in operational research. In our work, an agent refers to a single entity that will be simulated, that is, one sales staff, one manager, or one customer. Agents are modelled through state charts, describing how, when, and why they can change their behaviour.

It is a system that fulfills the independent functions, perceives the outer world, and establishes the linking among the agents through its software.

Software that works toward goals in a dynamic environment on behalf of another entity (human or computational) without continuous direct supervision or control and exhibits a significant degree of flexibility and even creativity in how it seeks to transform goals into tasks.

(In software development) An artificially intelligent software object that can monitor a program’s state and execute commands autonomously to achieve those goals. (In literary and performance theory) an object or being that appears to behave with an intention to achieve a goal. Actions taken toward goal attainment foreground the agency of the object or being.

Individual that experiences the actions, interacts with the elements and is affected by the interrelations of the context.

An agent is autonomous entity that actively pursues its goals and is able to interact with others.

An agent is a piece of software that acts to accomplish tasks on behalf of its user.

An organism (e.g., human), artificial agent (robot), or computational virtual object capable of interacting socially with other agents to solve problems that cannot be addressed in isolation (e.g., manufacturing).

A computer system capable of flexible autonomous action in dynamic, unpredictable and open environment. An autonomous entity capable of executing tasks either by themselves or by collaborating with other agents (Luck et al., 2003; Mas, 2005).

An agent is an encapsulated computer system that is situated in some environment and that is capable of flexible, autonomous action in that environment in order to meet its design objectives. Agents normally exhibit autonomous, reactive, proactive, and social behaviors.

A program designed to provide specialized and well-defined services. An agent can be static – executing on the computer where it was installed, or mobile – executing on computer nodes in a network.

Component of software or hardware which is capable of acting exactingly in order to accomplish tasks on behalf of its user. Examples will include software such as Internet Search Engines, Robots, etc. (Nwana, 1996) AU105: The in-text citation "Nwana (1996)" is not in the reference list. Please correct the citation, add the reference to the list, or delete the citation. .

Entity perceiving the environment through sensors and acting upon that environment through effectors

One that acts or has the power or authority to act.

It is part of a software (most generally a SIEM tool) and consists of a program installed at the host machine to execute the following tasks: Event filtering, event aggregation, normalization of aggregated events, sending the results to the central management software (the SIEM tool) for further inspection.

An autonomous entity situated in an environment that is capable of perceiving the environment and acting on the environment.

Agent is a person that acts on behalf of a principal.

Autonomous proactive (purposive) entities. “Agents” - as defined in MAS - are autonomous entities: there is not a fully centralized processing; they have local independent information and results, and, sometimes, independent learning or reasoning; they have some pro-activity (Wooldridge and Jennings, 1995); they are regulated by internal representations (sometimes strictly ‘purposive’ ones, like in BDI Agents); they have their own powers (skills, but possibly also resources like data). The most qualifying and advanced form of autonomy and of agency obviously is autonomy in goals: when an agent has its own independent motives, and will pursue our objectives only if there is some reason and advantage for doing so (self-motivated).

See software agent.

An agent is something that acts in an environment.

Autonomous entity that is able to perceive its environment, reason about it, maintain personal goals, plan appropriate ways to achieve them, and act accordingly to modify in turn its environment. Some agents are also able to communicate with other artificial agents or with humans, or to express and understand emotions.

An agent is a computational system that is situated in some dynamic environment and can autonomously decide which actions to perform in order to achieve its objectives.

As defined in artificial intelligence literature is anything that can be viewed as perceiving its environment through sensors and acting upon the environment through actuators. Some authors extend the definition of agent by enumerating required features of agent such as mobility, correctness, reactivity and pro-activity, goal-orientation, adaptability, robustness, benevolence, sociability, ability to communicate with other agents etc.

A system that fulfils the independent functions, perceives the outer world and establishes the linking among the agents through its software

Autonomous software or hardware entity loosely coupled into a multi-agent system. Operation of an agent-based system is based on collaborative (or sometimes self-interested) interactions of agents.

An autonomous software and/or hardware entity that is situated in some environment, and which is capable of both reacting to changes in that environment and taking the initiative.

A computing system with a well defined interface capable of adaptive problem-solving actions without user intervention.

An organism (e.g., human), artificial agent (robot), or computational virtual object capable of interacting socially with other agents to solve problems that cannot be addressed in isolation (e.g., manufacturing).

Anyone who is assigned a task on behalf of another.

A computer system capable of flexible autonomous action in dynamic, unpredictable, and open environment. An autonomous entity capable of executing tasks either by itself or by collaborating with other agents (Luck, 2003; Mas, 2005).

A computer system situated in some environment that is capable of autonomous action in this environment to meets its design objective.

An agent is a physical or virtual entity which is able to perceive, reason, act, and communicate in its environment and which executes autonomous actions to reach certain goals.

An individual, anyone who is part of the society and has to respect social norms.

Some entity, a system that possesses properties, in addition to the properties of the object to exist and unite, necessary for interaction with the external environment.

An entity that perceives and can perform actions upon its environment, which includes humans as well as artificial (hardware or software) entities.

A software entity that comforts five essential properties: reactiveness (responds timely to events), autonomy (exerts control over its own actions), goal-orientedness (aims to realize a specific task), persistency (is a continuously running process), sociability (interacts with other entities), intelligence (reasons (in different ways) on how to solve a problem).

An object with various attributes that interprets and interacts with its environment through behavioral rules.

Agents are defined as autonomous, problem-solving computational entities capable of effective operation in dynamic and open environments.

(Intelligent) autonomous entity (piece of software) that interacts within an environment.

An agent is a program installed at the host to do the following tasks; event filtering, event aggregation, normalization of the aggregated events, and sending the aggregated results regarding the events to the data analyzer of a centralized intrusion detection program for the further inspection and decision making.

A software module that represents simplest version of node in the smart space. An agent can reason knowledge and make decisions using this information and in accordance with the application goals.

A computer program that acts autonomously on behalf of a person or organization.

See software agent .

Either a human or a computer-simulated participant in a collaborative problem solving group.

anyone who is assigned a task on behalf of another

A person that acts on behalf of a principal, e.g. an employee in a firm.

In RL terms, it is the responsible of making decisions according to observations of its environment.

The term agent generally is defined as a physical or logical entity that has the following properties: social ability, autonomy, reactivity, adaptability and granularity degrees.

The individual undertaking an act in a scene, one of the Pentadic elements.

It refers the whole entity with aptitude to do something.

Computer-animated character controlled by an algorithm or artificial intelligence.

A software entity which can perform tasks on behalf of an end-user autonomously, capable of making independent decisions, and taking actions to satisfy a set of internally defined goals based upon its perception and interactions within the mobile agent environment.

It is an encapsulated computer program situated in some environment, and is capable of flexible, autonomous actions in that environment in order to meet its design objectives.

A program designed to provide specialized and well defined services. Agent can be static – executing on the computer where it was installed, or mobile – executing on computer nodes in a network.

A goal-directed entity capable of interacting with the surrounding environment in an autonomous fashion; a software program representing an individual business entity.

“A computer system that is capable of flexible autonomous action in dynamic, unpredictable, typically multi-agent domains” (Luck et al., 2005).

An agent is a software program that is not only autonomously reacts to its environment, it is proactive and socially capable.

Software developed to automate and perform a task on a network for the user.

An individually identifiable component within a system that has its own state, behaviour and is able to interact with other agents.

A software entity which can perform tasks autonomously, capable of making independent decisions, and taking actions to satisfy internal goals based upon its perceived environment.

An agent in computing, is an entity such as a software program or a robot that can be viewed as perceiving and acting upon its environment and that is autonomous, that is, its behavior at least partially depends on its own experience.

A computer system, situated in some environment, that is capable of flexible autonomous action in order to meet its design objectives. The flexible autonomous action means the ability to act without the direct intervention of humans and they are capable to perceive their environment and response to changes to occur in it

Agent is a hardware or software system able to act without human intervention (autonomy) both by itself (pro-activeness) and reacting to the environment changes (reactivity), also interacting with other agents (social ability).

An autonomous entity that observes through sensors and acts upon an environment using actuators and directs its activity towards achieving goals.

Is an autonomous entity which observes through sensors and acts upon an environment using actuators and directs its activity towards achieving goals. Russell & Norvig (2003) group agents into five classes based on their capability, Simple reflex agents , act only on the basis of the current percept, ignoring the rest of the percept history. Model-based reflex agents , it can handle a partially observable environment. Its current state is stored inside the agent maintaining some kind of structure which describes the part of the world which cannot be seen. Goal-based agents , expands on the capabilities of the model-based agents, by using “goal” information. Utility-based agents , defines a measure of how desirable a particular state is. This measure can be obtained through the use of a utility function which maps a state to a measure of the utility of the state. Learning agents , allows the agents to initially operate in unknown environments and to become more competent than its initial knowledge alone might allow.

A computational unit able to solve a problem and execute in open and dynamic contexts, thanks to the properties of reactivity, autonomy, proactivity, and sociality. The agents can run in a special agent platform such as JADE.

An entity, that perceives its environment and acts upon it in order to realize a given set of goals or tasks

An agent is a computer system situated in some environment, and that is capable of autonomous action in this environment in order to meet its design objectives

A complex system constituting elements that are individual performers, which can be described by their interrelationships, knowledge/skill, performance and constraints factors.

In the context of e-business an agent is either a human being or an information and communication technical system (ICT systems).

Agent is any autonomous entity which sense and response to the environments to achieve its goals.