Using UML in the context of agent-oriented software engineering:: State of the art

Most of the methodologies and notations for agent-oriented software engineering developed over the past few years are based on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) or proposed extensions of UML. However, at the moment an overview on the different approaches is missing. In this paper. we present a state-of-the-art survey of the different methodologies and notations that, in one way or the other, rely on the usage of UML for the specification of agent-based systems. We focus on two aspects, i.e., design methodologies for agent-oriented software engineering, and different types of notations (e.g., for interaction protocols, social structures, or ontologies) that rely on UML1d.