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Software 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
