The paper presents an overview of the agent-oriented models of complex socio-economic systems
of the meso-level developed by Russian and fo reign scientists. It considers agent-oriented models of
municipalities: cities, urban agglomerations, suburban areas, etc. When choosing models for the review,
preference was given to municipal level models that have a detailed description of agents, their behavior
and rules of interaction accompanied by a visual diagram of the conceptual model. However, the important
criterion was the availability of information about the testing of the constructed model on the actual data
for a specific municipality. Foreign experience of application of the agent-oriented approach to the study
of socio-economic systems of the meso-level is disclosed on the example of the models of municipalities
that are the most interesting and promising from our point of view: these models are models of the virtual
economy of the city, the model of interrelated markets for housing and land, the models of expansion of the
city area, the models of reducing the city, the model of intra-city migration, the models of interconnected
development of creative industries and spatial structure of the city. The author also considers the experience
of Russian scientists in this field presented in scientific publications on the current models of socio-economic
development of cities and municipal areas. The main agents acting within each model, the environment of their functioning, and the rules of interaction between themselves and with the external environment
are described. The author presents conceptual models of interaction between the agents. The paper shows
possibilities and examples of practical application of the described agent-based models
Keywords
municipal formations, agent, agent-based model, review, meso-level