VIXEE an innovative communication infrastructure for virtual institutions

Abstract

Virtual Institutions (VI) provide many interesting possibilities for social virtual environments, collaborative spaces and simulation environments. VIs combine Electronic Institutions and 3D Virtual Worlds. While Electronic Institutions are used to establish the regulations which structure participants interactions, Virtual Worlds are used to facilitate human participation. In this paper we propose Virtual Institution Execution Environment (VIXEE) as an innovative communication infrastructure for Virtual Institutions. Main features of the infrastructure are i) the causal connection between Virtual World and Electronic Institutions layers, ii) the automatic generation and update of VIs 3D visualization and iii) the simultaneous participation of users from different Virtual World platforms