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Training Agents: An Architecture for Reusability

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During the last years, Intelligent Virtual Environments for Training have become a quite popular application of computer science to education. These systems involve very different technologies, ranging from computer graphics to artificial intelligence. However, little attention has been paid to software engineering issues, and most of these systems are developed in an ad-hoc way that does not allow the reuse of their components or even an easy modification of the application. We describe an agent-based software architecture that is intended to be easily extended and modified. Also, some experiments to test the suitability of the architecture are shown.

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  1. Computer Science School, Technical University of Madrid, Campus de Montegancedo s/n, 28660, Boadilla del Monte (Madrid), Spain

    Gonzalo Mendez & Angelica de Antonio

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  1. Department of Informatics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece

    Themis Panayiotopoulos

  2. Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, 13274 Fiji Way, 90292, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA

    Jonathan Gratch

  3. School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot Watt University, EH14 4AS, Edinburgh, Scotland

    Ruth Aylett

  4. BT plc, Adastral Park, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK

    Daniel Ballin

  5. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, NE1 7RU, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

    Patrick Olivier

  6. University of Applied Sciences Augsburg, Friedberger Str. 2a, 86161, Augsburg, Germany

    Thomas Rist

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Mendez, G., de Antonio, A. (2005). Training Agents: An Architecture for Reusability. In: Panayiotopoulos, T., Gratch, J., Aylett, R., Ballin, D., Olivier, P., Rist, T. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3661. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11550617_1

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