Representing Complex Multi–Agent Organisations in UML

Abstract

Interaction has been proved one of the main sources of complexity in Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) and many researches are working on techniques to palliate it. Furthermore, Organization modelling techniques lies on representing the groups of agents which are related by some kind of interaction. Current UML approaches represent these relationships as a set of binary links usually represented as stereotyped UML associations not providing abstraction tools to manage the complexity derived from interactions. In this paper, we argue for multiparty links in order to increase the level of abstraction of organization models and thus, their ability to manage complexity.