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A well-known claim for multi-agent systems is that they are especially suited to develop software systems that are decentralized, can deal flexibly with dynamic conditions, and are open to system components that come and go. While we endorse this claim, developing real-world multi-agent systems taught us that achieving these goals is a complex engineering problem. Our experience with real-world multi-agent systems development can be captured succinctly in the following statement:

Developing multi-agent systems software is 95% software engineering and 5% multi-agent systems theory.

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Weyns, D. (2010). Introduction. In: Architecture-Based Design of Multi-Agent Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01064-4_1

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