Execution infrastructure for normative virtual environments

Tomas Trescak, Inmaculada Rodriguez, Maite Lopez Sanchez, Pablo Almajano

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    Abstract

    Virtual Institutions (VIs) have proven to be adequate to engineer applications where participants can be humans and software agents. VIs combine Electronic Institutions (EIs) and 3D Virtual Worlds (VWs). In this context, Electronic Institutions are used to establish the regulations that structure interactions and support software agent participation while Virtual Worlds facilitate human participation. In this paper we propose Virtual Institution eXEcution Environment (VIXEE) as an innovative communication infrastructure for VIs. Using VIXEE to connect Virtual Worlds and EI opens EI to humans, providing a fully operational and comprehensive environment. The main features of the infrastructure are (i) the causal connection between Virtual Worlds and Electronic Institutions, (ii) the automatic generation and update of the VIs' 3D visualization and (iii) the simultaneous participation of users from different virtual world platforms. We illustrate the execution of VIXEE system in a simple eAuction house example and use this example to evaluate the performance of our solution.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)51-62
    Number of pages12
    JournalEngineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
    Volume26
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2013

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