Getting Up to Speed on Multi-Agent Systems, Part 2: The Vocabulary

If you try to read multi-agent systems papers without the vocabulary, you will get nowhere. The field has settled on a shared set of words for the pieces of a system, and every paper now slots into those categories even when it pretends to be doing something novel. This post is about those words. Once you know them, you can read any paper in the field and know what it is and isn’t claiming.…