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Building intelligent behavior in (educational) games and simulations can greatly benefit from the use of agent technology. Intelligent agents within a multi-agent system can be developed for controlling virtual characters in a simulation environment within a game engine. Coupling a multi-agent system to a game engine is not a trivial task and introduces several conceptual design issues concerning embodied agent design. In this paper we present CIGA, a middleware to facilitate this coupling tackling the design issues in a structured approach, not only for embodied agent design but also for the system as a whole.
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van Oijen, J., Vanhée, L., Dignum, F. (2012). CIGA: A Middleware for Intelligent Agents in Virtual Environments. In: Beer, M., Brom, C., Dignum, F., Soo, VW. (eds) Agents for Educational Games and Simulations. AEGS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7471. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32326-3_2
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