Automata Glossary

Worlds

• A world is made up of agents(automata), global(all-agents) & local(per-agent) state spaces (environments), as well as environments interpreted from world states to be relevant to an agent and consumed only by that agent (potential names of local state spaces shared across agents: context, strata, motif).

Agents

• In Automata, an Automaton is an agent with abstract superpowers. Our core team scours the literature on multi-agent and autonomous decentralized systems to detect common patterns and inter-relationships amongst key concepts in order to synthesize the best set of abstractions determined to be most generally valuable to trained AI architects.

Automata

• Meta-level Control
  • Processing which is Triggered each heartbeat at the [automata level] to support agent interaction, and any potential network reorganization. Meta-level control is the ability of an agent to optimize its long term performance by choosing and sequencing its deliberation and execution actions appropriately.

Automaton

• Belief State
  • A belief state encapsulates the beliefs an agent has about its current state: that is, probability distributions for each variable within the state.