Task: Design Plan Diagram

Task sourced from Tropos

Purpose

The purpose of this task is to design the agents’ micro level through agent plans.

Relationships

Roles	Primary Performer: MAS Designer	Additional Performers: MAS Developer
Inputs	Mandatory: Tropos Capability Diagram	Optional: [Domain Analysis slot] [Organization - Design slot]
Outputs	Tropos Plan Diagram
Process Usage	MMF Design Agent with Tropos > Design Agent with Tropos > Design Plan Diagram Tropos > Detailed Design Phase > Design Agent > Design Plan Diagram Tropos PL Variant 2 > Domain Engineering Iteration 1..n > Domain Design Phase > Design Agent with Tropos > Design Plan Diagram

Main Description

During this task agents’ plans are specified in detail. Practical approaches for this task are usually proposed within specific development platforms and depend on the features of the adopted agent programming language. In other words, this task is usually strictly related to implementation choices. Moreover, the Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) is supporting the extension of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as the language which should enable the specification of agent systems. See Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology (p. 220-221) and Plan Modeling for more information.

Steps

Describing agent plans

Practical approaches for designing agent plans are usually proposed within specific development platforms and depend on the features of the adopted agent programming language.

More Information

Concepts	Plan
Guidelines	Plan Modeling
Whitepapers	Tropos: An Agent-Oriented Software Development Methodology