Extended story generation, such as the creation of soap opera stories, is a difficult and interesting problem for Artif icial Intelligence. We present here the first phase of the development of a program, UNIVERSE, to tell such stories. In particular, we introduce a method for creating universes of characters appropriate for extended story generation. This method concentrates on the need to kee...

Digital non-linear story-telling is an ideal approach to share entrepreneurial knowledge in large distributed communities and networks. Story-telling combines semantic knowledge and episodic knowledge by explicit problem solving strategies. In order to facilitate entrepreneurial knowledge sharing authoring environments based on multimedia repositories as well as advanced story players are neede...

This paper describes a story-telling agent which is itself a multi-agent system composed of a blackboard structure and a number of smaller agents which both cooperate and compete against each other to preemt information according to each one’s point of view. The agent architecture is b~ed on a cognitive model, Minsky’s Society of Mind. The story-telling agent is an example application of this a...