Contains things, active and passive. In this case: BeinG s, PlacE s, ProP s, ..

Knows about it's StatE?? (e.g. SeasoN??)

• based on analysis of components
  • balance (experimented e.g. in EcologyWorld? and/or MoralWorld)
    • statistics (amounts of things etc.)
• ExternalInformation?
  • from a PhysicalSensor
  • from a DataBase? (e.g. news, economics, ..)

see backlinks (also by clicking the heading World) for examples

for an agent oriented simple implementation, see e.g. http://an.org/programming/World.py

for actual implementations, see EnginE:WorlD .. one system on the concept of a world for making computer things is slut (EnginE:SluT), this is how there you put a button to play sound .. http://slut.sourceforge.net/examples/sound.html

made on the OpenSim implementation are OpensimWorlds

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comments:

BionicleWorld -- Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:29:14 +0200 reply
is one, as featured in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Places_in_Bionicle

GrassPlanet -- Tue, 06 Dec 2005 19:16:51 +0200 reply
is somewhere, http://kandid.org/paradise/lpp/lp04.html

MoonBridge -- Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:01:15 +0200 reply
s are in places