TY - CHAP AU - Koppensteiner Gottfried AU - Merdan Munir AU - Lepuschitz Wilfried AU - Moser Thomas AU - Reinprecht Constantin ED - Faisal Alkhateeb ED - Eslam Al Maghayreh ED - Iyad Abu Doush Y1 - 2011-04-01 PY - 2011 T1 - Multi Agent Systems Combined with Semantic Technologies for Automated Negotiation in Virtual Enterprises 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. 12 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/14986 DO - 10.5772/14986 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-23 ER -