“…The reason for the name is due to a connection with the so-called rook monoids (and associated algebras and deformations) studied by Halverson, Solomon and others [12,18,32,34,36,68,72]. As noted by Grood [33], Solomon's discovery [72] of a Schur-Weyl duality for rook monoid algebras (see also [50]) led to the investigation of a number of other "rook diagram algebras", such the rook Brauer algebras [35,60], Motzkin algebras [5] and more. Such studies, and other considerations often to do with representation theory and/or statistical mechanics, have led to the discovery and investigation of a great many other families of diagram algebras [6,10,11,45,61,62,67,69].…”