Crime Scene Bots

The CSI Lab Crime Scene Bots are the brainchild of Angela Talamasca. Their underlying code base is built upon the LibOpenMetaverse frame work with hooks into the original Test Client. To ensure scalability and extensibility the bots interface with a data gateway which seamlessly accesses multiple persistent data sources such as sql databases, excel workbooks, and text files. Additionally, the bot factory was designed to dynamically generate a variety of bot classes, including but not limited to liasons, presenters, instructors, curators, and crime scene crash test dummies. The integrated search feature relies upon the Google SOAP service and is designed to scour this wiki as well as the Knowledge Base for answers to visitor queries. Locomotion is a combination of random paths interspersed with random sitting and waits, and predefined waypoints. Complex locomotion is based upon simulated annealing concepts. The conversational aspect presently rely upon pandorabots, though this will eventually be replaced by proprietary conversational software that was featured in .Net magazine in the spring of 2005.