KQML as an agent communication language
Software agents
Role model designs and implementations with aspect-oriented programming
Proceedings of the 14th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Representing agent interaction protocols in UML
First international workshop, AOSE 2000 on Agent-oriented software engineering
The Gaia Methodology for Agent-Oriented Analysis and Design
Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Combining Software Components and Mobile Agents
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
On Observing and Constraining Active Systems
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Formal Specification and Prototyping of Multi-agent Systems
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Representing Social Structures in UML
AOSE '01 Revised Papers and Invited Contributions from the Second International Workshop on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering II
DCaseLP: A Prototyping Environment for Multi-language Agent Systems
Languages, Methodologies and Development Tools for Multi-Agent Systems
European research and development of intelligent information agents: the agentlink perspective
Intelligent information agents
A formal approach to design and reuse agent and multiagent models
AOSE'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Agent-Oriented Software Engineering
The ANote modeling language for agent-oriented specification
Software Engineering for Multi-Agent Systems III
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A basic concept of software engineering is that a system can be described at different levels of abstraction. Agent-oriented software engineering introduces a new level of abstraction, called the agent level, to allow software architects modelling a system in terms of interacting agents. This level of abstraction is not yet supported by an accepted diagrammatic notation even if a number of proposals are available. This work shows how UML can be exploited to model a multi-agent system at the agent level. In particular, it presents a set of agent-oriented diagrams intended to provide an UML-based notation to model: the architecture of the multi-agent system, the ontology followed by agents and the interaction protocols used to co-ordinate agents. The presented notation exploits stereotypes to associate an agent-oriented semantic with class and collaboration diagrams. The benefit of using stereotypes rather than extending UML to provide an agent-oriented semantic is that the presented notation can be used with any off-the-shelf CASE tool.