Representing and Generating Maps of Large-Scale Virtual Environments for Intelligent Mobile Agents

The prevalence of virtual worlds presents an interesting The research questions we are looking to solve are: challenge for intelligent mobile agents. Online, very largescale, - How to represent maps of large scale, complex environments persistent virtual worlds such as Second Life (Linden Research Inc. 2012) and massively multi-player online games (MMOs) are becoming more popular. As these - How an agent can generate, update and use these maps worlds grow in size there is a challenge in providing intelligent - How can we utilise user-generated information to build agents that can generate and use maps of these environments and improve upon these maps without the need for hard-coding or pre-processing the map.