Virtual Worlds Second International Conference, VW 2000 Paris, F

Virtual Worlds 2000 is the second in a series of international scientific conferences on virtual worlds held at the International Institute of Multimedia in Paris La Défense (Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci). The term "virtual worlds" generally refers

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

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Jean-Claude Heudin (Ed.)

Virtual Worlds Second International Conference, VW 2000 Paris, France, July 5-7, 2000 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA J¨org Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saabr¨ucken, Germany Volume Editor Jean-Claude Heudin International Institute of Multimedia Pˆole Universitaire L´eonard de Vinci 92916 Paris La D´efense Cedex, France E-mail: [email protected]

Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for Die Deutsche Bibliothek - CIP-Einheitsaufnahme Virtual worlds : second international conference ; proceedings / VW 2000, Paris, France, July 5 - 7, 2000. Jean-Claude Heudin (ed.). Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Hong Kong ; London ; Milan ; Paris ; Singapore ; Tokyo : Springer, 2000 (Lecture notes in computer science ; Vol. 1834 : Lecture notes in artificial intelligence) ISBN 3-540-67707-0

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Preface Virtual Worlds 2000 is the second in a series of international scientific conferences on virtual worlds held at the International Institute of Multimedia in Paris - La Défense (Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci). The term "virtual worlds" generally refers to virtual reality applications or experiences. We extend the use of these terms to describe experiments that deal with the idea of synthesizing digital worlds on computers. Thus, virtual worlds could be defined as the study of computer programs that implement digital worlds. Constructing such complex artificial worlds seems to be extremely difficult to do in any sort of complete and realistic manner. Such a new discipline must benefit from a large amount of work in various fields: virtual reality and advanced computer graphics, artificial life and evolutionary computation, simulation of physical systems, and more. Whereas virtual reality has largely concerned itself with the design of 3D immersive graphical spaces, an