Conclusion and Future Works

EVA is a long term open project for designing artificial creatures. There are many possible

and promising research directions for the near future. Some are related to the technological

development of the bio-inspired nano-agent system, while some others are related to a

deeper study of the schizophrenic model for creating rich believable characters. From the

technological perspective, we are implementing new additional “plugin” packages for more

robust web mining and memory functionalities using evolutionary programming and

swarm algorithms. Our goal is to learn information from the flow of conversation and from

the web rather than coding a large amount of predefined knowledge. We are also

implementing a C++ version of the EVA virtual machine that will enable to develop

applications that do not support the Java environment such as the iPhone or some robot

platforms. From the schizophrenic model perspective, we are studying various models

based on psychological, neurophysiological, and storytelling approaches. We also want to

experiment a larger number of personalities to create a swarm with social network

properties. While our theoretical framework is based on the complex system approach, our

experimental approach focuses on real-world applications. The EVA bio-inspired

architecture has obvious applications for designing intelligent agents for commercial web

sites and marketing studies. We also like to imagine virtual assistants on mobile phones,

assistants for lone aged and/or sick people, for learning foreign languages, virtual

characters in video games, for robotic and embedded applications.

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Controlling and Assisting Activities in Social

Virtual Worlds

I. Rodriguez, A. Puig and M. Esteva

Applied Mathematics Department. University of Barcelona, Spain

Artificial Intelligence Research Institute. Barcelona, Spain