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International Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support

International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design

BPMDS 2012, EMMSAD 2012: Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling pp 422–434Cite as

Semiotic Considerations for the Design of an Agent-Oriented Modelling Language

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Building on published guidelines for good design practice as applied to the creation of modelling languages, we consider the creation of an appropriate notation for a domain-specific modelling language for supporting agent-oriented information systems design. We begin by analyzing extant metamodels, in particular that for FAML, in order to visualize these ontological concepts as a concrete syntax that adheres to semiotic principles and good design heuristics. We seek a notation that is easy to understand by industry users, is ontologically correct and is underpinned by some theory – expressed here as the FAML metamodel.

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  1. School of Software, University of Technology Sydney, P.O. Box 123, Broadway, NSW, 2007, Australia

    Brian Henderson-Sellers

  2. UNSW School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    Graham Low

  3. Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

    Cesar Gonzalez-Perez

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Henderson-Sellers, B., Low, G., Gonzalez-Perez, C. (2012). Semiotic Considerations for the Design of an Agent-Oriented Modelling Language. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_29

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