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An Overview of the Use of Mobile Agents in Virtual Environments

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2001)

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In the field of agents, there are a wide variety of them, such as learning agents, planning agents or communicative agents. One of the youngest members in the family are mobile agents, which provide us with the interesting feature of mobility in order to perform their tasks in different machines. In this paper, we will see some of the current uses of mobile agents and we will suggest how we could use these agents along with Virtual Environments in order to enhance them and open a new world of possibilities for the users of these applications.

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  1. Facultad de Informática, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, 28660, España

    Gonzalo Méndez, Pedro Pérez & Angélica de Antonio

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  1. Facultad de Informática Campus de Montegancedo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

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  2. Center for Virtual Environments, University of Salford, Business House Salford, M5 4WT, UK

    Ruth Aylett

  3. Radical Multimedia Lab, BTexact Technologies, Ross PP1, Adastral Park, Martlesham, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK

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Méndez, G., Pérez, P., de Antonio, A. (2001). An Overview of the Use of Mobile Agents in Virtual Environments. In: de Antonio, A., Aylett, R., Ballin, D. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44812-8_11

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