LA-WEB '03 Proceedings of the First Conference on Latin American Web Congress
A co-operative web services paradigm for supporting crawlers
A co-operative web services paradigm for supporting crawlers
Characterizing user mobility in second life
Proceedings of the first workshop on Online social networks
A method for longitudinal behavioral data collection in second life
Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
CoNEXT '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM CoNEXT Conference
Intelligent Crawling in Virtual Worlds
WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 03
Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
VWRAP for Virtual Worlds Interoperability
IEEE Internet Computing
Linking behavior in a virtual world environment
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Web 3D Technology
An intelligent crawler for a virtual world
An intelligent crawler for a virtual world
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As three-dimensional (3D) environments become both more prevalent and more fragmented, the need for a data crawler and distributed search service will continue to grow. By increasing the visibility of content across virtual world servers in order to better collect and integrate the 3D data, we can also improve the efficiency and accuracy of crawling and searching by avoiding both the crawling of unchanged regions and the downloading unmodified objects that already exist in our collection. This helps to lower bandwidth usage during content collection and indexing, and for a fixed amount of bandwidth, maximizes the freshness of the collection. This paper presents a new services paradigm for virtual world crawler interaction that is co-operative and exploits information about 3D objects in the virtual world. By analyzing redundant information crawled from virtual worlds, our approach decreased the amount of data collected by crawlers, kept search engine collections up to date, and provided an efficient mechanism for collecting and searching information from multiple virtual worlds.