In this paper we review different techniques which can be used to achieve interactive storytelling in games, most notably the employment of planning algorithms to decide which and how events should be presented to the player at a given time, and the definition of non playing characters actions and behaviours as a response to the player’s actions. Furthermore we will consider game world with mor...

The Oz project is developing tools to create interactive, dramatic stories (Bates 1992).l An important aspect of this work is to develop technology for creating the characters for these stories. We feel it’s critical that these characters appear emotional; just as characters in novels and movies that are unemotional are called “flat” and aren’t very believable, we expect the same applies to com...

While computer games have become more sophisticated, most computer characters follow a limited static script in their interaction with the user. We advocate a knowledge acquisition approach to building characters and use modelbased classification techniques as our learning mechanism. Model-based classifiers can be readily integrated with existing rule-based approaches for building computer char...

Recognition of off-line handwritten Chinese character had been an important problem. Because of the variation and vagueness derived from different users’ handwritings, it was hard to recognize handwriting characters via statistical features obtained from database. The purpose of this study is to use lexical, syntactical and corpus rules for increasing the accuracy mentioned above. Our methods c...

The fact that characters may co-vary in organism groups because of shared ancestry and not always because of functional correlations was the initial rationale for developing phylogenetic comparative methods. Here we point out a case where similarity due to shared ancestry can produce an undesired effect when conducting an independent contrasts analysis. Under special circumstances, using a low ...

Analysis of handwritten characters (allographs) plays an important role in forensic document examination. However, so far there lacks a comprehensive and quantitative study on individuality of handwritten characters. Based on a large number of handwritten characters extracted from handwriting samples of 1000 individuals in US, the individuality of handwritten characters has been quantitatively ...

This paper will discuss work carried out during the VICTEC (Virtual ICT with Empathic Characters) and ECIRCUS (Education through Characters with emotionalIntelligence and Role-playing Capabilities that Understand Social interaction) projects, and on the FearNot! immersive virtual learning environment (VLE). The design motivations of the FearNot ! application will be discussed and subsequent exp...

As the global financial crisis dethrones the developed world from its economic supremacy, by leading the global economic recovery and growth, the global growth generator (3G) countries are expected to fill the vacuum. Capital market i.e. stock market development can play a crucial role in augmenting such growth in these 3G countries. This study aims at augmenting the determinants of stock marke...

Pranab Bardhan ([email protected]) is with the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley, US. Sandip Mitra ([email protected]) is with the Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. Dilip Mookherjee ([email protected]) is with the Department of Economics, Boston University, Boston, US and Abhirup Sarkar ([email protected]) is with the Economic Rese...

„Patriotism‟ and the term „Patriot‟ refer to a new awareness of Irishness that emerged toward the end of the seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century. The birth of Patriotism was as a result of several contributory factors following the Jacobite wars at the end of the seventeenth century. Ireland‟s constitutional status as a separate kingdom had been supported by opponents of T...