Multi-Agent Systems: Long Story Short

Distributed AI then, Agentic AI now: multi-agent systems have paved the way from the early achievements of the field to today's revolution. In this tutorial we draw on more than thirty years of contributions — papers, conferences, schools, books, tutorials, technologies, methodologies, courses — to trace the storylines that make sense of the state of the art, and to project them onto the next decade of intelligent systems.

Talk given at 24th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Perugia, Italy, 7 October 2026.

Record on APICe: https://talks.apice.unibo.it/MasAixia2026