Agent Modeling Language (AML): A Comprehensive Approach to Modeling MAS

The Agent Modeling Language (AML) is a semi-formal visual modeling language for specifying, modeling and documenting systems that incorporate features drawn from multi-agent systems theory. It is specified as an extension to UML 2.0 in accordance with major OMG modeling frameworks (MDA, MOF, UML, and OCL). The ultimate objective of AML is to provide software engineers with a ready-to-use, complete and highly expressive modeling language suitable for the development of commercial software solutions based on multi-agent technologies. This paper presents an overview of AML. The scope of the language, its structure and extensibility mechanisms are discussed, and the core AML modeling constructs and mechanisms are introduced and demonstrated by examples.

keywords   agent, multi-agent system, modeling language, agent-oriented software engineering

origin event

 Special Issue “Hot Topics in European Agent Research I”

 AL3-TF2

journal or series

 Informatica (Informatica)

container publication

 Special Issue “Hot Topics in European Agent Research I” (special issue, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

companion publication

 The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum: Main Issues and Hot Topics in European Agent Research (editorial/introduction/preface, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

 An Overview of Current Trends in European AOSE Research (article in journal, 2005) — Carole Bernon, Massimo Cossentino, Juan Pavón

 The Tropos Metamodel and its Use (article in journal, 2005) — Angelo Susi, Anna Perini, John Mylopoulos, Paolo Giorgini

 On the Role of Environments in Multiagent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet

 Towards a Unified View of the Environment(s) within Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Abdelkader Gouaïch, Fabien Michel

 Coordination Artifacts: A Unifying Abstraction for Engineering Environment-Mediated Coordination in MAS (article in journal, 2005) — Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli

funding project

 AgentLink III — A Coordination Network for Agent-based Computing (01/01/2004–31/01/2006)

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 Coordination Artifacts: A Unifying Abstraction for Engineering Environment-Mediated Coordination in MAS (article in journal, 2005) — Alessandro Ricci, Mirko Viroli

 The Second AgentLink III Technical Forum: Main Issues and Hot Topics in European Agent Research (editorial/introduction/preface, 2005) — Andrea Omicini, Paolo Petta, Matjaz Gams

 Towards a Unified View of the Environment(s) within Multi-Agent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Abdelkader Gouaïch, Fabien Michel

 The Tropos Metamodel and its Use (article in journal, 2005) — Angelo Susi, Anna Perini, John Mylopoulos, Paolo Giorgini

 On the Role of Environments in Multiagent Systems (article in journal, 2005) — Danny Weyns, Tom Holvoet

 An Overview of Current Trends in European AOSE Research (article in journal, 2005) — Carole Bernon, Massimo Cossentino, Juan Pavón