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Agent - For lists for mailing, the broker serves as the "agent" of the mailer; the list manager serves as the "agent" of the list owner.

[Category=Database Marketing ]

Source: Postcom, 05 February 2010 10:30:47, http://postcom.org/public/admail_image/glossary.htm External


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Agent - An application that searches the data and sends an alert when a particular pattern is found.

[Category=Data Warehousing ]

Source: SDG Computing Inc., 05 May 2010 08:34:31, SDG Computing, now offline


agent - Source: OpenGIS Guide

A kind of intermediary service which acts on behalf of another service (service provider or requester) according to rules established upon its invocation. Also known as an "intelligent agent".

[Category=Geospatial ]

Source: Open Geospatial Consortium, 31 May 2011 09:47:12, http://www.opengeospatial.org/ogc/glossary External


agent - [modeling] In modeling, an entity within a model that conducts transactions to simulate the actions of a human, group of humans, animal, or other actor.

[Category=Geospatial ]

Source: esri, 13 January 2012 09:20:51, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation External 


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