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HOLOMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
An Information-Based Agent
Information-based agency is founded on two observations: everything in an agent’s world model is uncertain, and everything that an agent communicates gives away valuable informa...
John K. Debenham
COSIT
1999
Springer
162views GIS» more  COSIT 1999»
14 years 6 days ago
Terminological Default Reasoning about Spatial Information: A First Step
We extend the theory about terminological default reasoning by using a logical base language that can represent spatioterminological phenomena. Based on this description logic lang...
Ralf Möller, Michael Wessel
ADBIS
2009
Springer
144views Database» more  ADBIS 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Learning Support and Legally Ruled Collaboration in the VirtualLife Virtual World Platform
The paper addresses the purposes and design decisions produced while developing a peer-to-peer virtual world platform. The work is being done within the FP7 VirtualLife project. Th...
Vytautas Cyras, Kristina Lapin
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Acquiring a professional "second life": problems and prospects for the use of virtual worlds in business
The current surge of interest in virtual worlds suggests they are poised to make an evolutionary leap to the workplace, as instant messaging did a decade ago. In recent work we ha...
Jason B. Ellis, Katherine Bessière, Wendy A...
VR
2002
IEEE
147views Virtual Reality» more  VR 2002»
13 years 7 months ago
Designing Virtual Environments to Support Cooperation in the Real World
Much of the current research in the design of virtual environments is centred on laboratory prototypes and emphasis is placed on supporting cooperation within the virtual world its...
Andy Crabtree, Tom Rodden, John A. Mariani