What is Software Agent

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A software agent is a computer program that is situated in some environment and capable of autonomous action in order to meet its design objectives. Learn more in: Using Multi-Agent Systems to Support e-Health Services

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In a broad sense, and to have a working definition in a context in where the concept definition is not yet established, we assume that a software agent is an artificial agent that operates in a software environment. Learn more in: Multiagent Systems in the Web

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A program that performs a specific task on behalf of a user, independently or with little guidance ( Bui & Lee, 1999 , p. 226). Learn more in: Interactive, Flexible, and Adaptable Decision Support Systems

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A program that is executed in a certain environment autonomously and is capable of making decisions based on data obtained from the environment and from other agents. Learn more in: Mobile Agents for a Mobile World

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An abstraction, a program that describes software that acts for a user or other program in a relationship of agency. Learn more in: Intelligent User Preference Mining

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A software agent is an encapsulated computer system that is situated in some environment and that is capable of flexible, autonomous action in that environment. Learn more in: Foundations and Applications of Intelligent Knowledge Exchange

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A software agent is a computer program that is situated in some environment and capable of autonomous action in order to meet its design objectives. Learn more in: Agent-Based Network Infrastructure for E-Communities

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A program that is executed in a certain environment autonomously and is capable of making decisions based on data obtained from the environment and from other agents. Learn more in: Mobile Software Agents for Mobile Applications

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Software agent is an autonomous software entity that can interact with its environment. Learn more in: Agent Based Product Negotiation Models in Mobile Commerce

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A piece of software capable of performing the specified tasks on behalf of the user. Learn more in: Automating Web Service Composition: An Ontological Agent Framework

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A piece of software that acts on behalf of a user in carrying out specific tasks specified by the user. Learn more in: Intelligent Personalization Agent for Product Brokering

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Although a great variety of definitions of the term ‘software agent’ exists (Franklin and Graesser 1997), a widely accepted definition is given by Jennings and Wooldridge (1998, p. 4): “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”. Learn more in: Using Rule-Based Concepts as Foundation for Higher-Level Agent Architectures

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A computer program that is situated in some environment and capable of autonomous action in order to meet its design objectives. Learn more in: Peer-to-Peer Social Networks

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A computer program that is situated in some environment and capable of autonomous action in order to meet its design objectives. Learn more in: Agent-Based Social Networks

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a computer program that is situated in some environment and capable of autonomous action in order to meet its design objectives. Learn more in: Multi-Agent Systems and Social Networks

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A program that performs a specific task on behalf of a user, independently or with little guidance ( Bui & Lee, 1999 ). Learn more in: Decision Support Systems

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A software agent is a computer program that is situated in some environment and capable of autonomous action in order to meet its design objectives. Learn more in: Multi-Agent Systems for the Application and Employing of E-Health Services

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Software agent is a software program that inhabits some complex dynamic environment, senses and acts autonomously in this environment and by doing so realizes a set of goals or tasks for which it is designed (Maes, 1994). Learn more in: Software Agents

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A software agent is a computer program that is situated in some environment and capable of autonomous action in order to meet its design objectives. Learn more in: Multi-Agent Systems for E-Health and Telemedicine

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A piece of software that has a certain aspect of agency. In Personal Agents, the agent’s agency comes from the agent behavior on behalf of the user. In Intelligent Agent, it comes from the autonomy of the agent behaving on its own. However, in Mobile Agents, it is originated in the agent’s mobility which grants it a sort of separation. Learn more in: Social Software in Customer Relationship Management: A Study Exemplified in Instant Messaging Networking

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Originally, a computer program that acts “on behalf of” the user. Nowadays a software agent is defined as a software entity that is programmed to act with a certain degree of autonomy to execute a given task. Software agents can be programmed with strict and fixed behavioral rules or incorporate Artificial Intelligence aspects to accomplish its tasks. Learn more in: Computational Thinking and Mathematics: Possible Relationships Revealed by an Analysis of National Curriculum Guidelines

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Software agent is a piece of code or computer program that can exercise an individual’s or organization’s authority, work autonomously at host toward a goal, and meet and interact with other agents Learn more in: Security of Mobile Code

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A software agent is a computer program that is situated in some environment and capable of autonomous action in order to meet its design objectives. Learn more in: Multi-Agent Systems for Semantic Web Services Composition

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A software entity being able to act with a certain degree of autonomy, in order to accomplish tasks on behalf of its user. While objects are defined in terms of methods and attributes, agents are defined in terms of their behaviours. Usually agents show persistence, autonomy, social ability, reactivity. Learn more in: Rule Engines and Agent-Based Systems