Definition: Social Agent

By Jack Krupansky

(1) A social agent is a software agent which exhibits a significant degree of interdependence with other software agents which results in or from the formation of communities of software agents within the full population of software agents to which the social agents belong, where each community has rules for behavior within the community.

(2) A social agent is a software agent or robot which is capable of social communication with human beings.

Singular of social agents.

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