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The Foundations to Build a Virtual Human Society

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Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2001)

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The simulation of the dynamics of human societies is not an easy task, and we propose a bottom-up approach, which consists in defining the human entity as a single, autonomous and independent entity (called Agent), and then immerse many of them in a common environment to let them interact and co-operate as the environment evolves. To achieve our goal and create Virtual Human societies, we try to extend the concepts we have developed for crowd simulations to encompass more autonomy at the level of individuals.

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  1. Computer Graphics Lab, EPFL, CH, 1015, Lausanne

    Daniel Thalmann

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  1. Facultad de Informática Campus de Montegancedo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Boadilla del Monte, 28660, Madrid, Spain

    Angélica de Antonio

  2. Center for Virtual Environments, University of Salford, Business House Salford, M5 4WT, UK

    Ruth Aylett

  3. Radical Multimedia Lab, BTexact Technologies, Ross PP1, Adastral Park, Martlesham, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK

    Daniel Ballin

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Thalmann, D. (2001). The Foundations to Build a Virtual Human Society. In: de Antonio, A., Aylett, R., Ballin, D. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2190. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44812-8_1

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