Virtual environments provide a rich and varied domain for intelligent agents, but questions of design and development in this context are still to be answered. An agent with multip...
The recent Heliophysics Virtual Observatory (VxO) effort involves the development of separate observatories with a low overlap in physical domain or area of scientific specializat...
Robert S. Weigel, Mikhail N. Zhizhin, Dmitry Mishi...
As heterogeneous parallel systems become dominant, application developers are being forced to turn to an incompatible mix of low level programming models (e.g. OpenMP, MPI, CUDA, ...
We present the architecture of nreduce, a distributed virtual machine which uses parallel graph reduction to run programs across a set of computers. It executes code written in a ...
Peter M. Kelly, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew L. Wend...
The authors have some experience in building virtual worlds for education purposes, in archaeology and for language learning. However, many mainstream world-building applications ...