About 15 years ago, a role-based learning program aimed primarily at software architects was established. In the early days, we had extensive discussions to what extent build on existing materials available outside of company or “grow our own” program. Due nature businesses, especially having many complex and cyber-physical systems with strong focus quality attributes, established own This arch...

Five years of application-driven research taught us that there is a close connection between multiagent systems and software architecture. In this paper, we give an overview of a reference architecture for situated multiagent systems we have developed during our research. The reference architecture generalizes common functions and structures from various applications we have studied and built. ...