Agent

An agent is an entity who capable of action, or an agent is something or someone which acts on behalf of another person.

Agent can mean:

• Agent (law): a person authorised to act on behalf of another person
  • Tuition agent, a person who represents a tuition agency in searching for suitable tutors for students.
  • Literary agent, a person who represents a writer
  • Theatrical agent
  • Booking agent
  • Sports agent, a professional who represents an athlete
  • Talent agent, a person who finds jobs for actors, models, and other people in various entertainment businesses.
  • Press agent, publicist who acts on behalf of a client on all matters involving public relations
  • Foreign agent, someone registered with the U.S. Justice Department as mandated by the Foreign Agents Registration Act
  • Travel agent, makes vacation and travel arrangements
  • Real estate broker, or real estate agent
  • Yacht broker, or yacht agent
  • Yacht charter broker, or yacht charter agent
• Election agent, a person responsible for a candidate's campaign
• Free agent, a sports player who is out of contract
• Agent provocateur, a person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another
• Rational agent deliberate being

In espionage and law enforcement

• Secret agent, a spy
• Double agent, in spying
• Special agent, generally, a federal criminal or non-criminal investigator or detective.

In economics

• Agent (economics)
• Representative agent
• Homo economicus
• Agent-Based Computational Economics

In chemistry and warfare:

• Agent Orange, a herbicide
• Biological agent, an infectious disease that can be used in biological warfare
• Chemical warfare agent, classified by their effect and include:
  • Nerve agent
  • Blister agent
  • Blood agent
  • Pulmonary agent
  • Incapacitating agent
  • Riot control agent.

In linguistics

• Agent (grammar), one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action. Replaces "subject" in placement typology.
• Agent noun (or nomen agentis), one of the derivatemes (a topic from linguistic morphology)

In computer science

• Software agent, active software functional units that acts on behalf of a user
  • Forté Agent, a newsreader and email client
  • Intelligent agent, an agent which uses AI technologies or exhibits some intelligence properties
  • User agent, a client application used with a particular network protocol

In fiction

• Agent 212, a Belgian comic
• Agents, characters in The Matrix
• The Agent (film), a 1922 film
• Secret Agent (1936 film), a 1936 film
• The Agents, superhuman characters in Seven Samurai 20XX
• Agent 47, a character from the computer game series Hitman

In finance

• Agent, a financial institution acting as the operational intermediary in a syndicated loan between the syndicate banks and the borrower. The most common form is the "Administrative Agent".

In popular culture

• Polish version of The Mole.

See also

• Agent environment
• Agent architecture
• Agent based model
• Robot
• bot
• personoid