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Situation agents: agent‐based externalized steering logic
Author(s) -
Schuerman Matthew,
Singh Shawn,
Kapadia Mubbasir,
Faloutsos Petros
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
computer animation and virtual worlds
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.225
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1546-427X
pISSN - 1546-4261
DOI - 10.1002/cav.367
Subject(s) - computer science , flexibility (engineering) , abstraction , simple (philosophy) , human–computer interaction , class (philosophy) , distributed computing , artificial intelligence , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , epistemology
We present a simple and intuitive method for encapsulating part of agents' steering and coordinating abilities into a new class of agents, called situation agents. Situation agents have all the abilities of typical agents. In addition, they can influence the steering decisions of any agent, including other situation agents, within their sphere of influence. Encapsulating steering logic into moving agents is a powerful abstraction which provides more flexibility and efficiency than traditional informed environment approaches, and works with many of the current steering methodologies. We demonstrate our proposed approach in a number of challenging scenarios. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.