Use a KIF like language (SUO-IEEE) to represent shared active episodic memories.  Java, Prolog and Visual Basic libraries integrate with a first person VRML/MOO system to provide debugging and agent facilities.

Libraries are provided that you need to use SUO-KIF (Standard Upperlevel Ontology - Knowledge Interchange Format) and DAML (DARPA Agent Markup Language) content into an episodic simulation simulation of a virtual world first person VRML/MOO system.  The programming languages used where Prolog, Java, and Visual Basic.  Combining powerful tools: Microsoft Virtual Worlds and two Edinburgh style of Prologs SWI-Prolog/B-Prolog we can represent episodic models of memory, diagrams for belief engines, or fun 3D role playing games.  SWI-Prolog is a stable, free, professional distribution of the prolog virtual machine and compiler.  Microsoft Virtual Worlds provides a complementary graphical environment: It supports rapid prototyping of distributed multi-user applications of 3D virtual communities with streaming media and chat.  But most importantly it supports a persistent, changeable world state that preserves object level information. B-Prolog is a recent addition thanks to work being done by Feng-Fa Zhou.

The Virtual Worlds Group http://vworlds.research.microsoft.com is an organization of individuals who are dedicated to helping advance the body of research on online multi-user applications. The founding members of this group are employees of Microsoft Research and have created a software platform that enables users to build these applications and quickly prototype user interfaces. They have released the source code of the Virtual Worlds software in conjunction with the binary builds in an effort to actively foster research. The platform is very general purpose and, as such, can be used to build almost any type of multi-user application. You don't have to know C++; you should have a basic knowledge of scripting. Interface and object behavior is programmable in languages like VBScript, Jscript, DHTML and now available through the Prolog compiler.

PrologVirtualWorlds Architecture Background
The Microsoft Virtual Worlds Service is an object remote brokering system: It is based on many clients and a server sharing references to instances. (COM/ActiveX Objects)  PrologVirtualWorlds takes advantage of this by connecting to virtual worlds as an (in)visible Avatar to programmatically alter objects and invoke methods.  It can create or remove properties, design new methods, and manufacture new object types.  Other agents may assist in work and run from different machines or languages.  An agent itself is an object and can alter it's own interface members, or of others.  The server maintains the consistency of the objects and facilitates news that may have affected an agent. This allows us power beyond conventional object orientated programming.

A simple example of agent orientated programming inside a Moo:

Why is this important?

As since all of these actions are moving thru representation terms  (it can be graphically depicted) another agent may in tandem try to analyze what had just happened and build a 'story script' object. The properties of such a script are in an action-level-ontology language the represents an instantiated scene ('story script' objects have a method called replay).  Since information about the methods and properties were public at the time the system may at later replay the scenario placing different objects in place of the originals in a non-deterministic way. 

Sometimes we do not have all of the information to heuristically search for a given situation.  As we discover new facts, the situation we learn was not correctly represented. Since the situation is persistable we can re-instantiate the episode and put better-educated agents to the task of understanding.  This one day I hope will further our technology and searchablity of 'scenario' and will allow better rule styles to be designed.

 

Brokering Model (sites are not places on the internet they are memory spaces that the object resides in)  

Virtual World Server Site

It holds the persistable objects and maintains the World Model Database.  The server system uses TCP and soon UDP to communicate to clients (Client Site) about changes to the objects they are referencing.  

Virtual World Client Site

This holds object interfaces shaped like the server objects.  So they look and act real to programmed code.  When you invoke a method on an object, a signal is sent to the server and it resolves the method to the proper inheritance level.  The correct code at the correct site is then executed.  If you expected a return object, it gives you a proxy reference to the returned object.

Prolog Virtual Worlds Client Site


This site holds references to the Virtual Worlds Client Site Interface Objects. 
This allows access in the below domains

Typelibinfo Morphism Engine (TLM)


This is the wrapper site that resolves Prolog termed objects to the Virtual World Client Site.  It also reshapes the objects based on user's belief settings. It is where the initial overloading of method/properties takes place.  Redirecting it to the proper site/interface and properly reacts to prolog events.
 

PrologClient Site (PCS)


PLWIN.EXE that is using SWIACTX.
The programmer places the code here to manipulate agents and objects. 

PrologServer Site (PSS)

The object models are kept track of inside a prolog wrapper ProQuery.dll that uses another instance of SWI Prolog that is dedicated to the (u/w) graph walking of object models and resolving both ways from the Prolog Client terms to the Morphism wrapper objects.  This site was optional but really sped up the delivery of information and later can be used to persist your prolog discontiguous global settings.