Read about bots in chapter 3 (author: Stefano De Paoli) of Springer’s Handbook on 3D3C platforms (Editor: Yesha Sivan).

The goal of this chapter is to develop a comparative framework for studying bots in Virtual Worlds.

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http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-22041-3_2