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Emulating human behaviour is a very desirable characteristic for virtual agents. There is plenty of literature that focuses on a single specific aspect of human behaviour emulation, but it is quite rare to find a collection of implementations encompassing several aspects of the problem. In this work we present VIRTUAL-ME (VIRTUal Agent Library for Multiple Environments), a library that provides programmers with a complete set of classes that assembles various human characteristics and makes it possible to build smart agents. The assessment of the library capabilities to populate a generic virtual environment is also discussed through the analysis of different case studies.
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Castano, R., Dotto, G., Suma, R., Martina, A., Bottino, A. (2015). VIRTUAL-ME: A Library for Smart Autonomous Agents in Multiple Virtual Environments. In: Koch, F., Meneguzzi, F., Lakkaraju, K. (eds) Agent Technology for Intelligent Mobile Services and Smart Societies. AVSA CARE 2014 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 498. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46241-6_4
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