The Tropos visual modeling language . A MOF 1 . 4 compliant meta - model

Premise. One of the two objectives of the AOSE TGF meeting to be held in Ljubljana, on February 28th is that of collecting, refining and possibly merging Agent-Oriented (AO) modeling languages meta-models. Our aim in this paper is to contribute to the achievement of this objective by describing the Tropos modeling language meta-model that we have implemented in a Tool for AO Modeling (http://sra.itc.it/tools/taom/).This meta-model follows the specification given in [Bre04] and in a master thesis [San01]. Moreover, we describe our approach in its implementation in the Eclipse [ECLIPSE] development platform. In this work we refer to the Model Driven Initiative (MDA) recommendations and standards, in particular the Tropos meta-model specification here described is compliant to the Meta Object Facilities (MOF) directives that allow to specify, build and manage technology neutral meta-models. In the following we recall the essential of the Tropos methodology and the main concepts of its modeling language, as described in [Bre04]. We then describe the modeling language meta-model and propose some solutions towards a possible integration with the “unifying meta-model” presented in [Ber04], to be discussed at the meeting. Finally, we describe briefly how we implemented the Tropos meta-model.