BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Agent
- a person or organization empowered to act on behalf of another when dealing with a third party
- a person or organization empowered to act on behalf of another when dealing with a third party
- see Executive
Wiktionary Definition for: Agent
- One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
- Ex:''Heaven made us '''agents''', free to good or ill.'' --Dryden.
- One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
- An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.
- computing In the client-server model, the part of the system that performs information preparation and exchange on behalf of a client or server. Especially in the phrase “intelligent agent” it implies some kind of automatic process which can communicate with other agents to perform some collective task on behalf of one or more humans.
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Additional Resources
- TENNECO AUTOMOTIVE INC - Tenneco Announces Change of Transfer Agent, Rights Agent.
- Tenneco Announces Change of Transfer Agent and Rights Agent LONDON, Nov. 14 -- Tenneco Inc. announced that the company has changed the transfer agent of its common stock and the rights agent under the company's Rights Agreement to Well ...
- Research articles 2006-11-14
- ISO&Agent (Business Publication) and ISO&Agent Weekly (Email Newsletter) Apply for BPA Worldwide Membership
- ISO&Agent and ISO&Agent Weekly have applied for membership in BPA Worldwide. The magazine and email newsletter are published by SourceMedia (Chicago, IL). BPA Worldwide will track circulation for ISO&Agent based on business/distribution, demographics and geographic coverage. The BPA email audit will track ISO&Agent Weekly's traffic. ISO&Agent and ISO&Agent Weekly...
- Research articles 2007-01-29
- Home Buying Without An Agent
- You're thinking about buying a house? Without an agent? This article gives some advice to help you to understand the typical house-buying experience, or to send you wailing and sobbing all the way to the nearest friendly, understanding real estate agent. Solicit the help of professionals you trust, keep them...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Joining the Free Agent Nation
- With the millions of people who have been let go by large corporations—and the insecurity generated, even among employees who were retained—many people have seriously weighed the prospect of starting their own business. As About.com cleverly put it, why not move from pink slips to deposit slips? At the beginning,...
- Articles 2007-02-28
- 'Super Agent' puts reps through NFL's paces.(National Football League, MTV Networks Inc. Spike TV's Super Agent)
- Finally, there's revenge for every devoted football fan who's had a favorite player traded from their team at the hands of a sports agent. Spike TV delivers Super Agent, which shows Detroit Lions rookie Shaun Cody casting fear into the shark...
- Research articles 2005-07-18
- Agent training top priority. (Agent Training).(at customer contact centers)(Brief Article)
- Customer contact center managers are planning to increase investments in agent training -- to bolster agent effectiveness -- over the next few years, according to research from Yankee Group. Providing adequate training and meeting service leve Customer contact center...
- Research articles 2002-05-01
- AGENT BANK SETUP FOR AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA
- AsiaInfo Services 04-18-1996 Agent Bank Setup for Agricultural Bank of China CHINA, Apr. 18, AsiaInfo Services, Inc -- The Agricultural Bank of China ABC set up its agent business department on Tuesday to improve its operations as agent for...
- Research articles 1996-04-18
- Agent loses benefits battle.
- Agent Loses Benefits Battle In a recently-decided case, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals denied retirement benefits to a Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. agent who represented the company for 20 years. After considering all the issues, the Cincinnati-based court found that...
- Research articles 1989-11-27
- New Edge Networks Hires J.R. Cook as Managing Director Agent Channel
- Company Creates Dedicated Agent Partner Sales Channel VANCOUVER, Wash., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- New Edge Networks, the business communications unit of EarthLink Inc., , today announced that J.R. Cook has joined the company as Managing Director for the Agent Channel. In this newly-created position, Cook will...
- Research articles 2009-08-05
- When Is A Principal Charged With An Agent's Knowledge?
- This article begins by exploring the basics of how imputation doctrine operates, including the circumstances under which an agent is treated as knowing a fact. Although the primary focus is on cases from the United States, contrasting English cases are discussed at points. It next evaluates competing justifications for imputation....
- White papers 2003-01-01
- An Introduction to Biological Agent Detection Equipment for Emergency First Responders
- This NIJ Guide provides emergency first responders with information to aid them in their understanding of biological agent detection equipment. Among the topics discussed include: the four most common classes of biological agents, challenges to biological agent detection, biological agent detection system components and technologies, and preparation for a biological...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- TacTex-05: A Champion Supply Chain Management Agent
- Supply chains are ubiquitous in the manufacturing of many complex products. Traditionally, supply chains have been created through the interactions of human representatives of the companies involved, but advances in autonomous agent technologies have sparked an interest in automating the process. The Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management TAC SCM...
- White papers 2006-07-01
- Mobile Computing and Auto-Id Technologies in Supply Chain Event Management - An Agent-Based Approach
- This paper presents the architecture of an agent-based system for Supply Chain Event Management. Auto-ID (= Automatic Identification), mobile and agent technologies are combined within this agent based system called CoS.MA (Cooperative and Ubiquitous Supply-Network Monitoring Agents) in order to realize permanent tracking & tracing of resources (e.g. products, vehicles)...
- White papers 2005-04-27
- Agent-Based Supply Chain Management: Bidding for Customer Orders
- Supply chains are a current, challenging problem for agent-based electronic commerce. Motivated by the Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management TAC SCM scenario, the author's considers an individual supply chain agent as having three major subtasks: acquiring supplies, selling products, and managing its local manufacturing process. In this paper, the...
- White papers 2004-07-19
- A Framework For Goal-Based Semantic Compensation In Agent Systems
- We describe an approach to improving the robustness of an agent system by augmenting its failure-handling capabilities in a way that makes the system's behavior more predictable. Our approach is goal-based, both with respect to defining failure-handling knowledge, and in associating this knowledge with agent tasks. By abstracting this knowledge...
- White papers 2004-05-21
- Implications Of Agent-based Supply Chain Games
- The increased prevalence of network-enabled supply chains and out-sourcing of business processes suggests a stronger role for simulation tools, such as multi-agent systems, in supply chain management. We report on a new supply chain management game in the 2003 Trading Agent Competition and the design and experiences of our agent,...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Towards Agent-Based Scenario Development For Strategic Decision Support
- Scenario planning is a method for learning about the future by understanding the nature and impact of the most un-certain and important driving forces affecting that future. However, most scenarios, being mostly stories, lack validation, dynamism and fail to acknowledge all relations between actors, activities and resources. This paper proposes...
- White papers 2006-03-09
- Leasing Agent
- The Leasing Agent job description template includes the following job summary: The Leasing Agent is primarily responsible for leasing the apartments and for renewing residential leases. The Leasing Agent's goal is to lease to qualified residents who will enhance the property. The Leasing Agent may also be asked to function...
- Tools & templates 2007-09-09
- Sara Lee names agent for sublease in Trumbull. (Sara Lee Corp.; Trumbull, Connecticut)(Real Estate Briefs)
- Sara Lee names agent for sublease in Trumbull TRUMBULL -- Sara Lee Corp. has appointed Pierson & Smith Commercial Real Estate Inc., Stamford, as exclusive agent for the sublease of Cambridge One, 6 Cambridge Drive, Trumbull, a three-story 62,800Sara Lee names agent for sublease...
- Research articles 1990-08-06
- CHINESE AUTOMOBILE AGENT SALE INDUSTRY GREW UP
- AsiaInfo Services 11-01-2001 Chinese Automobile Agent Sale Industry Grew Up CHINA, Nov 01, 2001 AsiaPort via COMTEX -- Today, Volvo entrusted formally Beijing Chinese Automobile Nanfang as its direct agent in Huabei region, which was the firs AsiaInfo Services ...
- Research articles 2001-11-01
