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Problems of Standardizing Agent-Based Model Description and Possible Ways to Solve Them

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The problem of standardizing the description of agent-based models is considered. The foreign experience in solving this problem is studied in detail, and the authors’ developments are proposed. In the course of this study, a critical analysis of the existing standards (the original ODD protocol and its updates and modifications) was carried out. An adapted translation of the ODD protocol for use in Russian-language publications was proposed. The need to develop a separate standard for describing agent-based models intended for approbation of management decisions was substantiated. The structure of the standard was proposed, and the prospects for its application were described. The scientific novelty and practical significance of this study consists in the development and justification of the first Russian-language standard for describing agent-based models with account for domestic experience, terminology, and the best examples of models’ description, as well as in the proposal to create an open registry of applied models that would provide interaction with potential users of agent-based decision support systems developed by research teams.

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  1. Lingua franca is a functional type of language used as a means of communication between speakers of different languages in limited areas of social contact. Literally, “the language of the Franks,” a medieval mixed language used by the peoples of the Mediterranean countries.

  2. Additional files S2–S4 to article [8].

  3. Electronic annex S1 to the protocol is available at http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/23/2/7/S1-ODD.pdf.

  4. https://www.jasss.org/admin/submit.html.

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RAS Academician Valerii Leonidovich Makarov is Director for Science of CEMI RAS. RAS Corresponding Member Al’bert Raufovich Bakhtizin is Director of CEMI RAS. Elena Andreevna Rossoshanskaya, Cand. Sci. (Econ.), is a Leading Analyst at the Eastern State Planning Center (ESPC). Tat’yana Andreevna Doroshenko is Head of the Sector for Modeling Sociodemographic Processes at ESPC. Natal’ya Aleksandrovna Samsonova is Head of the Sector for Strategic Development also at ESPC.

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Makarov, V.L., Bakhtizin, A.R., Rossoshanskaya, E.A. et al. Problems of Standardizing Agent-Based Model Description and Possible Ways to Solve Them. Her. Russ. Acad. Sci. 93, 239–248 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1019331623020119

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