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... current internal state, the world state, andthe database knowledge The external behaviors of the agent refer to the world and internal states, and select the actions The actions affect the architecture, ... parameters The agent can (i) gather information from the architecture andthe environment; 1694 (ii) be triggered by the architecture andthe environment inthe form of exceptions generated inthe application; ... modify the data associated with the marks (or its colors), thereby changingthe state of the system (by adding a mark inat least one output place) If there are colorset modifications to perform, they...
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