| Article ID: | iaor201112322 |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Start Page Number: | 339 |
| End Page Number: | 352 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2011 |
| Journal: | Expert Systems |
| Authors: | Arroyo A, Serradilla F, Calvo O |
| Keywords: | artificial intelligence |
The confluence of three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds with social networks imposes on software agents, in addition to conversational functions, the same behaviours as those common to human-driven avatars. In this paper, we explore the possibilities of the use of metabots (metaverse robots) with motion capabilities in complex virtual 3D worlds and we put forward a learning model based on the techniques used in evolutionary computation for optimizing the fuzzy controllers which will subsequently be used by metabots for moving around a virtual environment.