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The paper analyzes formal models of agents, their role in the design of agent-oriented systems, their use at the stage of designing an agent-based system, as well as the degree of application of formal models of agents in software design methodologies.
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Translated from Kibernetika i Sistemnyi Analiz, No. 3, May–June, 2012, pp. 101–110.
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Gorokhovskyi, S.S., Glybovets, A.N. & Popov, O.A. Formalization of agent-oriented systems. Cybern Syst Anal 48, 406–413 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10559-012-9420-0
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