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CORR
2008
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
The Physical World as a Virtual Reality
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...
Brian Whitworth
ATAL
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Virtual institutions prototype
Virtual Institutions are Virtual Worlds with normative regulation of participants’ interactions. This paradigm is based on normative multiagent systems and is technologically su...
Anton Bogdanovych, Simeon J. Simoff, Marc Esteva
TCGOV
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
e-Government: A Legislative Ontology for the 'SIAP' Parliamentary Management System
The requirement of integrating, sharing and reusing legislative information is a research issue gaining priority for governments and institutions. The legal world is complex, heter...
Carmen Costilla, Juan P. Palacios, José Cre...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Business Models for Online Communities: The Case of the Virtual Worlds Industry in China
The rapid growth of Internet usage has enabled many new online communities to develop. A particularly interesting phenomenon that has arisen through Internet communities is the vi...
Ian MacInnes, Lili Hu
SIGGRAPH
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Improv: A System for Scripting Interactive Actors in Virtual Worlds
Improv is a system for the creation of real-time behavior-based animated actors. There have been several recent efforts to build network distributed autonomous agents. But in gene...
Ken Perlin, Athomas Goldberg