TY - CHAP AU - Adroaldo Guimarães Rossetti AU - Almir dos Santos Albuquerque AU - Vasco Pinto da Silva Filho AU - Rogério Cid Bastos ED - Faisal Alkhateeb ED - Eslam Al Maghayreh ED - Iyad Abu Doush Y1 - 2011-04-01 PY - 2011 T1 - Multimedia Authorship Tool for the Teaching of Foreign Languages and Distance Learning in a Multiagent Environment N2 - A multi-agent system (MAS) is a system composed of multiple interacting intelligent agents. Multi-agent systems can be used to solve problems which are difficult or impossible for an individual agent or monolithic system to solve. Agent systems are open and extensible systems that allow for the deployment of autonomous and proactive software components. Multi-agent systems have been brought up and used in several application domains. BT - Multi-Agent Systems SP - Ch. 17 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/15743 DO - 10.5772/15743 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -