A novel approach for addressing extensibility issue in collaborative virtual environment

Abstract

In order to achieve entity evolvement, enrich socialization of virtual community and optimize computer processing in the collaborative virtual environment (CVE), efficient collaborative interaction management (CIM) is a key to handle these issues. In this paper, we focus on functional extensibility in CVE, and give the solution by using the conceptual idea of our proposed CIM approach, called task-oriented interaction management. This approach has four important components, which are scene interaction manager, virtual entity interaction manager, interaction task agent, and scene role & rules. They have certain capabilities, like data distribution, load-balance, tasks migration, ownership transfer, entities' states consistency maintenance, database persistency management and etc. The motivation of this research is to develop an extensible and evolving CVE with extensible functionalities for creating large-scale collaborative interaction experience to users in a large-scale interconnected 3D virtual environment. Details of the conceptual framework of the task-oriented interaction management will be presented in this paper.