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View all- Kiourt CPavlidis GKoutsoudis AKalles D(2017)Realistic Simulation of Cultural HeritageInternational Journal of Computational Methods in Heritage Science10.4018/IJCMHS.20170101021:1(10-40)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2017
Towards a 'Smart' Collaborative Virtual Environment and Multi-agent Approach to Designing an Intelligent Virtual Agent
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Abstract
Increasing interest in Collaborative Virtual Environments CVEs in different applications has imposed new requirements on the design of the CVEs and the resident Intelligent Virtual Agents IVAs. In addition to cognitive abilities, IVAs in CVEs require social and communication behaviours. The use of a Multi-Agent System MAS has been a successful approach to address the variety of evolving abilities needed by an IVA. In this paper, a model of a 'smart' CVE is presented. This CVE model publicizes the properties and the possible events of each entity located in the sensory range of the nearby IVAs. Additionally, this CVE model offers a level of abstraction for the IVAs to interact with the entities in the CVE. This level of the abstraction is distributed within the design of the resident IVAs. Moreover, this paper presents a MAS-based IVA design. This IVA is able to collaborate with humans in CVEs. The proposed model simulates humans by including input, output and processing modules. In addition, the model coordinates the IVA's verbal and non-verbal communication to convey its internal state while achieving a collaborative task.
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