Software agent
Software agent is used in computer science to refer to pieces of autonomous, or semi-autonomous proactive and reactive, computer software. Examples:
- user agent
- mail transfer agent
- SNMP agent
- DAML
- daemons in Unix-like systems. See the mascot for BSD systems. CTSS first named daemons; see also demon.
- In Unix-style networking servers, httpd is a demon which implements the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol at the root of the World Wide Web
Definition of Agent processing can be approached from two interelated directions:
- internal state processing and ontologies for representing knowledge
- interaction protocols - standards for specifying communication of tasks
Agent systems are used to model real world systems with concurrency or parallel processing.
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