Identifying Events Taking Place in Second Life Virtual Environments

ion of agent percepts. The rest of the paper is organised as follows. Section 2 contains an introduction to Second Life and Section 3 contains our formalism for virtual environments. Section 4 discusses the challenges and problems in accurately extracting spatio-temporal data from Second Life environments using existing mechanisms. Section 5 presents the new mechanisms that we developed to accurately extract spatio-temporal data from Second Life and Section 6 describes the complete framework designed to identify events in Second Life environments. Section 7 demonstrates the use of this framework in the context of SecondFootball and OVH simulations. Section 8 discusses how the framework is extended to connect multi-agent development platforms with Second Life and a performance evaluation of the system is presented in Section 9. Section 10 discusses related work, and finally Section 11 concludes the paper.