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

Table 6

Initially proposed families and their members.

Family	Members	Shape	Colour (optional)	Source and/or influence for notation
Agents and roles^1	Agent, role, group, position, organization	Circle atop mask or rectangle	Yellow	INGENIAS [20]
Tasks and plans	Action specification, FAML task, plan specification	Curvilinear	Green	ISO/IEC [21]
Events and resources	Event, resource	Triangular	Blue/green
Goals	Hard goal, soft goal, belief	Complex curvilinear	Brown
Ontology	Ontology, service, capability	Polygonal	Dark blue
Use cases	Scenario, actor	Double oval, stick figure	None	Padgham et al. [2]
Messages	Conversation, message in, message out	Arrow heads	B/W	Padgham et al. [2]

¹Strictly agent types and role types (design time concepts) rather than their run-time equivalents of individual agents and individual roles.