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The MESSAGE Meta-model

The purpose of this document is to describe the concepts used in MESSAGE's agent-oriented modelling language. This basically extends UML with concepts required for agent-oriented modelling.

1. Relationship to the UML meta model.
2. Main points of connection between the MESSAGE and UML meta-models.
3. Conventions used in the meta-model definition
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4. The concept taxonomy
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5. The concept index
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Government Health Warning

The Meta-model as presented here (0.4) reflects the state of play at the end of the MESSAGE project. It is reasonably stable and consistent, but is still capable of refinement. In its current form, it is not proposed as a definitive meta-model for agent-oriented software engineering. However, we feel it provides a good platform for others to build upon.

History

0.1

Baseline draft, November 2000

0.2

Re-organised into packages, January 2001

0.3

Major update following London and Porto meetings, etc., March 2001

0.4

Minor update incorporating changes arising from discussion of notation, etc. July 2001

Feedback

In the first instance, please send feedback specifically on the meta-model to Paul Kearney.