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 dur- ing 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 pro- posal is to provide an ontology that can enhance the knowl- edge representation features and reasoning capabilities of an agent-based Intelligent Virtual Environment.