Intelligent Virtual Agents Third International Workshop, IVA 200

Predicting the future is a risky game, and can often leave egg on one’s face. However when the organizers of the Intelligent Virtual Environments workshop at the European Conference on AI predicted that the field of Intelligent Virtual Agents would grow a

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis, and J. van Leeuwen

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Angélica de Antonio Ruth Aylett Daniel Ballin (Eds.)

Intelligent Virtual Agents Third International Workshop, IVA 2001 Madrid, Spain, September 10-11, 2001 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editors Angélica de Antonio Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Facultad de Informática Campus de Montegancedo, Boadilla del Monte, 28660 Madrid, Spain E-mail: [email protected] Ruth Aylett University of Salford, Center for Virtual Environments, Business House Salford, M5 4WT, UK E-mail: [email protected] Daniel Ballin BTexact Technologies, Radical Multimedia Lab Ross PP1, Adastral Park, Martlesham, Ipswich, IP5 3RE, UK E-mail: [email protected]

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Preface Predicting the future is a risky game, and can often leave egg on one’s face. However when the organizers of the Intelligent Virtual Environments workshop at the European Conference on AI predicted that the field of Intelligent Virtual Agents would grow and mature rapidly, they were not wrong. From this small workshop spawned the successful one on Intelligent Virtual Agents, held in Manchester in 1999. This volume comprises the proceedings of the much larger third workshop held in Madrid, September 10-11, 2001, which successfully achieved the aim of taking a more international focus, brin