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.
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...
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...
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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 ...
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...
Aspect Software, Inc., the world's largest company solely focused on the contact center, today announced the release of Web Powered AgentTM 10.1, an industry-leading thin-client agent desktop for Aspect® Spectrum® ACD, a complete inbound solution that includes robust queuing, routing, reporting, agent empowerment and modeling capabilities.
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,...
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...
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...
UNION CITY, Calif.--CPD Wireless, a master agent for multiple wireless service carriers, will become a master agent and ... UNION CITY, Calif.--CPD Wireless, a master agent for multiple wireless service carriers, will become a master agent and wholesale distributor for VoiceStream Wireless Corp., expanding...
Tom Simon is a special agent with the FBI in Chicago. He joined the bureau 12 years ago and investigates major financial and white-collar crimes. He is married and is the father of two children, ages four and three. Special agent Simon is also a dedicated member of his community...
* Looking for a hot stock tip? Try asking your local FBI agent. A special agent and a former agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation were indicted Wednesday for their role in an insider-trading scam. Lynn Wingate, a current agent, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
KANA Software, Inc., a provider of service resolution management SRM solutions, has announced KANA Agent Desktop Search. The new solution is for enabling integration between KANA Agent IQ, the company's contact center knowledge base, with leading desktop search applications. Additionally, agents can publish new data directly to the knowledge base...
Former IRS agent Richard Joseph Whitburn, 62, of Norman, was sentenced to serve 30 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $900,000 from a consumer automobile financing company and then laundering the proceeds of his crime, according to John C. Richter, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma,...
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