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We started this book with the brave statement: “Developing multi-agent systems software is 95% software engineering and 5% multi-agent systems theory.” This chapter concludes the book by reviewing how architecture-based design of multi-agent systems underpins this statement. We start with a reflection on architecture-based design of multi-agent systems and its application to the AGV transportation system. Next, we report lessons learned from applying the approach in practice. From our experience, we propose opportunities to improve multi-agent system engineering practice and we give a number of suggestions for future research.
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Weyns, D. (2010). Conclusions. In: Architecture-Based Design of Multi-Agent Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01064-4_9
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