Framework for Simulating the Human Behavior for Intelligent Virtual Agents. Part I: Framework Architecture

Luengo, Francisco; Iglesias, Andrés

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-25944-2_29

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“…The Action Server corresponds to the action engine [6,7], and it can be viewed as the world manager, since it controls and properly modifies all the information the crowd can perceive. The Action Server is fully dedicated to verify and execute the actions required by the agents, since they are the main source of changes in the virtual environment.…”

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A new system architecture for crowd simulation

Lozano

Morillo

Orduña

et al. 2009

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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Crowd simulation requires both rendering visually plausible images and managing the behavior of autonomous agents. Therefore, these applications need an efficient design that allow them to simultaneously tackle these two requirements. Although several proposals have focused on the software architectures for these systems, no proposals have focused on the computer systems supporting them.In this paper, we analyze the computer architectures used in the literature to support virtual environments. Also, we propose a distributed computer architecture efficient enough to support simulations of thousand of autonomous agents.This proposal consists of a cluster of interconnected computers in order to improve flexibility and robustness, as well as a hierarchical software architecture that efficiently provides consistency. Performance evaluation results show that the trade-off between flexibility and consistency allows to efficiently manage thousands of autonomous agents. Therefore, this network-based system architecture can provide the required scalability for large-scale crowd simulations.

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A new system architecture for crowd simulation

Lozano

Morillo

Orduña

et al. 2009

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

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“…The realistic simulation and animation of the behavior of virtual avatars emulating human beings (also known as Artificial Life) has attracted much attention during the last few years [2,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13]. A major goal in behavioral animation is the construction of an "intelligent" system able to integrate the different techniques required for the realistic simulation of the behavior of virtual humans.…”

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AI Framework for Decision Modeling in Behavioral Animation of Virtual Avatars

Iglesias

Luengo

2007

Computational Science – ICCS 2007

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One of the major current issues in Artificial Life is the decision modeling problem (also known as goal selection or action selection). Recently, some Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have been proposed to tackle this problem. This paper introduces a new based-on-Artificial-Intelligence framework for decision modeling. The framework is applied to generate realistic animations of virtual avatars evolving autonomously within a 3D environment and being able to follow intelligent behavioral patterns from the point of view of a human observer. Two examples of its application to different scenarios are also briefly reported.

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“…The Action Server corresponds to the action engine [8,9], and it can be viewed as the world manager, since it controls and properly modifies all the information the crowd can perceive. The Action Server is fully dedicated to verify and execute the actions required by the agents, since they are the main source of changes in the virtual environment.…”

Section: The Action Servermentioning

confidence: 99%

On the Design of an Efficient Architecture for Supporting Large Crowds of Autonomous Agents

Lozano

Morillo

Ordua

et al. 2007

21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA '07)

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Crowd simulations require both rendering visually plausible images and managing the behavior of autonomous agents. Therefore, these applications need an efficient design that allow them to simultaneously tackle these two requirements. Although several proposals have focused on the software architectures for these systems, no proposals have focused on the computer systems supporting them.In this paper, we analyze the computer architectures used in the literature to support virtual environments. Also, we propose a distributed computer architecture efficient enough to support simulations of thousand of autonomous agents. This proposal consists of a cluster of computers in order to improve flexibility and robustness, as well as a hierarchical software architecture that efficiently provides consistency. Performance evaluation results show that the trade-off between flexibility and consistency allows to efficiently manage thousands of autonomous agents.

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Framework for Simulating the Human Behavior for Intelligent Virtual Agents. Part I: Framework Architecture

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

A new system architecture for crowd simulation

A new system architecture for crowd simulation

AI Framework for Decision Modeling in Behavioral Animation of Virtual Avatars

On the Design of an Efficient Architecture for Supporting Large Crowds of Autonomous Agents

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