Simulation of antagonistic conflicts in the third-order cybernetics paradigm

The article presents a new approach to the research of conflict interaction in conditions of high uncertainty of the situation, based on modeling the behavior of intellectual agents. The conflict space is represented in the form of a discrete description of the participants' states and the possibilities of transition between these states when agents perform actions. The principles and examples of a quantitative assessment of the comparative significance of states, as well as the development on their basis of a rational strategy of behavior in the conflict, are presented.