The phrase "abstract agent" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to philosophy, linguistics, or computer science, where it refers to a non-physical entity that performs actions or has agency.
Example: "In the study of language, an abstract agent is often used to represent the subject of a sentence without specifying a concrete individual."
Alternatives: "conceptual agent" or "theoretical agent".
In this way, we move from abstract agent system specification to practical implementation.
In between are types of vocalizations where there is an abstract agent and non-animate subjects, such as research shows; some cited sentences are in passive form such as it has been shown.
Finally it would be worth also to build an abstract agent based models of innovation diffusion, that could be calibrated and implemented on this framework, in order to forecast future events and thus to add a predictive character to this dataset.
Moreover, we observed that when using "mutation" as a structure, students typically would construct propositions like "mutation changes the nucleotide sequence" or "mutation creates a new allele," wherein mutation was represented as an abstract agent causing a change.
It provided a common language to describe problems and share their solutions with each other, and with other fields that also used concepts of abstract agents, like economics and control theory.
An approach to understanding how individual cell behaviors contribute to system behaviors is to discover a set of principles that enable abstract agents to exhibit closely analogous behaviors using only information available in an agent's immediate environment.
Firstly, Ph2PCl reacts with GaCl3 as a halide abstracting agent giving a transient Ph2P+-phosphenium ion.
Seeing everyone as an "idealized equal" — not as a particularized being, but as an abstract autonomous agent indistinguishable in essence from all other agents – may be the imperative of a philosophical line stretching from Kant to Rawls, but it is not an imperative that does the work of the world.
Our approach is based on abstracting the agent formation by a rectangular grid.
Key features of the architecture are the use of abstract communicating agents to realise database transactions and queries, the use of a remote object call mechanism to enable remote agents to communicate with one another, and the use of multi-level transactions.
Voice is difficult to define in the abstract, but agents, editors, readers, and writers know voice when they see it.
