Towards the Consolidation of a Diagramming Suite for Agent-Oriented Modelling Languages

Table 1

Set of diagram types recommended in Henderson-Sellers [19] in the light of his analysis of AOSE methodologies. These diagram types should then be supplemented by textual based templates and descriptors as shown in Table 2.

Static diagram types	Dynamic diagram types
Environment description	Agent goal-based use case
Environmental connectivity	Use case map
External organization structure chart	Conversation a.k.a. interaction
Architecture	Protocol (a kind of conversation)
Agent society	Workflow
Agent role	Agent state
Role dependency	Task specification
Agent internals	Task state
Agent overview
Goal decomposition
Ontology
Plan
Capability
Service
Task decomposition
Deployment
UI design