Extending JaCalIVE Framework to Create Virtual Worlds by Means of an OWL Ontology

The development of Intelligent Virtual Environments is still a growing area from a technological perspective. Current implementations of Intelligent Virtual Environments require a high consumption of resources while new requirements should be also supported. Distributed approaches seem to be a good solution for systems of this kind, as in the case of the multi-agent paradigm. Nevertheless, MAS approaches lack of elements that facilitate flexibility and dynamism during the execution of an Intelligent Virtual Environment. To address these aspects, a semantic representation of an IVE is proposed in this paper. The main contribution of this proposal is to provide an ontology that can enhance the knowledge representation features and reasoning capabilities of an agent-based Intelligent Virtual Environment.