Elvin Interface for LambdaMOO

Student: Brendan Richard Leong See

Supervisor: Dr. Peter Sutton

Category: Software Engineering Thesis Project

LambdaMOO (MOO - Multi User Domain, Object-Oriented) is a multiplayer, network accessible, object oriented, text-based virtual environment. This thesis project has been designed to allow for events occurring in the real world to be visible in the LambdaMOO virtual world and vice-versa. Hence linking LambdaMOO with the information environments of the real world and other virtual worlds.

This project involves the integration of a relative new communications protocol, Elvin, into a virtual world environment known as LambdaMOO. Elvin is essentially an event notification service. The Distributed Systems and Technology Centre (DSTC) of The University of Queensland conceived Elvin in 1993 as a research project. The primary aim of the Elvin service is to provide context-based addressing of notifications or events. Clients can be either producers or consumers of messages. Consumers are able to subscribe to notifications using a subscription language, and the Elvin server routes notifications based on the content of the messages and the subscriptions of clients.

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