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
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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Best Practices for At-Home Agents
- What is your mental image of a work-at-home agent? Is it of a smiling, professional agent diligently serving customers? Or do you see a pajama-clad loafer muting "Oprah!" to take an occasional call? Are you envisioning a progressive, cost-saving contact center strategy? Or does the very idea conjure up fears...
- White papers 2008-02-01
- Working With a Real Estate Agent
- Most home buyers use a real estate agent or broker to help find a home, negotiate the contract and handle other details of buying a home. Article insights that before hiring an agent, learn all about the process to know what to expect from the professional who can assist. One...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- 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
- An Agent-Based Approach to Travel Demand Modeling: An Exploratory Analysis
- The paper develops an agent-based travel demand model. In this model, travel demands emerge from the interactions of three types of agents in the transportation system: node, arc, and traveler. Simple local rules of agent behaviors are shown to be capable of efficiently solving complicated transportation problems such as trip...
- White papers 2004-04-30
- Inventory and Eort Choice When a Sales Agent Possesses Private Demand Information
- The inventory planning decision of a firm principal is considered in the situation where a sales agent possesses better information about future product demand than the principal. This could occur simply because the agent has more familiarity with the customers than the principal, giving him a better signal of demand....
- White papers 2005-05-31
- 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
- Using A Commercial Agent
- Commercial agents are intermediaries that sell your goods or services on your behalf in return for commission. Businesses usually appoint agents because they need their specialist help in reaching markets in a particular sector or geographical location. Agents can be particularly useful for new businesses that have yet to build...
- White papers 2006-11-23
- Sample Purchasing Agent Resume
- This is the resume sample for applying for the post of purchasing agent. This template can provide you the relevant idea that you need for preparing a sample purchasing agent resume.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- Sample Insurance Agent Resume
- This is the resume sample for applying for the post of insurance agent. This template can provide you the relevant idea that you need for preparing a sample insurance agent resume.
- Tools & templates 2008-01-01
- The Making of a Syndicated Deal
- This article discusses about how to make a syndicate deal. Syndicating loans, or spreading debt among a number of players, helps lenders manage their portfolios by reducing risk, improving returns and increasing fee business. A syndicated loan is typically structured and priced by the lead arranger or agent, who then...
- White papers 2002-08-01
- Picking Your Real Estate Agent
- A real estate agent is one's liaison in the home market. Not only will they be able to smooth the buying process, from negotiating with sellers to taking the house to closing, they can help one determine what kind of home would best fit his lifestyle (condo, townhouse, rural single...
- White papers 2006-05-18
- Integration of Workflow and Agent Technology for Business Process Management
- Both workflow and agent technology have recently been applied to business process management. The integration of these two technologies will definitely provide solutions to the problems not to be solved by any of them. This paper summaries the capabilities of these two technologies and discusses the forms and their benefits...
- White papers 2003-10-23
- Designing and Evaluating an Adaptive Trading Agent for Supply Chain Management Applications
- This paper provides a number of insights into building agents for supply chain applications. Specifically, it details the design, implementation and evaluation of SouthamptonSCM Supply Chain Management; an agent that successfully participated in the 2004 trading agent competition. The agent employs fuzzy techniques at its core. In particular, it uses...
- White papers 2005-05-31
- Prospect Theory And Liquidation Decisions
- This paper solves a liquidation problem for an agent with a preference consistent with the prospect theory of Kahneman and Tversky (1979). According to these preferences, the agent’s value function depends on his wealth change relative to a reference point, around which the agent is more sensitive to losses than...
- White papers 2003-03-01
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