Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Ssoftware agent is used in computer science to refer to pieces of autonomous, or semi-autonomous proactive and reactive, computer software. Examples: user agent mail transfer agent SNMP agent DAML daemons in Unix-like systems. See the mascot for BSD systems. CTSS first named daemons; see also demon. In Unix-style networking servers, httpd is a demon which implements the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol at the root of the World Wide Web External links http://www.agentland.com/ This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.