agents

An agent is a computational entity that has some level of independence or autonomoy. Agents may be used behind the scenes, for example in robotic process automation or interact directly with humans in a user interface agents. Agents may act individually, but cooperating agents can communicate with one another, typically using messages leading to more complex behaviours.

Cooperating agents can also be applied at a low-level as part of swarm computing or to simulate human crowds or flocks of birds.