@article{engineering-gsi-article-2019, author = "Viviana Mascardi and Danny Weyns and Alessandro Ricci and Clara Benac Earle and Arthur Casals and Moharram Challenger and Amit Chopra and Andrei Ciortea and Louise A. Dennis and {\'A}lvaro Fern{\'a}ndez D{\'i}az and Amal El Fallah-Seghrouchni and Angelo Ferrando and Lars-{\AA}ke Fredlund and Eleonora Giunchiglia and Zahia Guessoum and Akin G{\"u}nay and Koen Hindriks and Iglesias, Carlos A. and Brian Logan and Timotheus Kampik and Geylani Kardas and Vincent J. Koeman and John Bruntse Larsen and Simon Mayer and M{\'e}ndez, Tasio and Juan Carlos Nieves and Valeria Seidita and Baris Tekin Tezel and L{\'a}szl{\'o} Z. Varga and Michael Winikoff", abstract = "The continuous integration of software-intensive systems together with the ever-increasing computing power offer a breeding ground for intelligent agents and multi-agent systems (MAS) more than ever before. Over the past two decades, a wide variety of languages, models, techniques and methodologies have been proposed to engineer agents and MAS. Despite this substantial body of knowledge and expertise, the systematic engineering of large-scale and open MAS still poses many challenges. Researchers and engineers still face fundamental questions regarding theories, architectures, languages, processes, and platforms for designing, implementing, running, maintaining, and evolving MAS. This paper reports on the results of the 6th International Workshop on Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2018, 14th-15th of July, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden), where participants discussed the issues above focusing on the state of affairs and the road ahead for researchers and engineers in this area.", journal = "SIGSOFT Engineering Notes (SEN)", keywords = "multiagent", month = "January", title = "{E}ngineering {M}ulti-{A}gent {S}ystems: {S}tate of {A}ffairs and the {R}oad {A}head", year = "2019", }