A Software Toolkit for Web-Based Virtual Environments Based on a Shared Database

In Isaias, Karmakar, Rodrigues, Barbosa (eds), Proceedings of IADIS International Conference 2004. IADIS Press, 691-698 ISBN: 972-98947-5-2

8 Pages Posted: 10 Apr 2017

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Boris Van Schooten

University of Twente

Anton Nijholt

Human Media Interaction (HMI)

Betsy van Dijk

Human Media Interaction (HMI)

Date Written: May 10, 2004

Abstract

We propose a software toolkit for developing complex web-based user interfaces, incorporating such things as multi-user facilities, virtual environments (VEs), and interface agents. The toolkit is based on a novel software architecture that combines ideas from multi-agent platforms and user interface (UI) architectures. It provides a distributed shared database with publish-subscribe facilities. This enables UI components to observe the state and activities of any other components in the system easily. The system runs in a web-based environment. The toolkit is comprised of several programming and other specification languages, providing a complete suite of systems design languages. We illustrate the toolkit by means of a couple of examples.

Keywords: Virtual Environments, Software Architectures,Entity-Relationship model, Specification Languages

JEL Classification: L29, L63, L84, O39

Suggested Citation

Van Schooten, Boris and Nijholt, Anton and van Dijk, Betsy, A Software Toolkit for Web-Based Virtual Environments Based on a Shared Database (May 10, 2004). In Isaias, Karmakar, Rodrigues, Barbosa (eds), Proceedings of IADIS International Conference 2004. IADIS Press, 691-698 ISBN: 972-98947-5-2 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2947228

Boris Van Schooten (Contact Author)

University of Twente ( email )

Postbus 217
Twente
Netherlands

Anton Nijholt

Human Media Interaction (HMI) ( email )

Drienerlolaan 5
Enschede, NB 7522
Netherlands

Betsy Van Dijk

Human Media Interaction (HMI) ( email )

Drienerlolaan 5
Enschede, NB 7522
Netherlands

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