A narrative is an ordered sequence of connected events, usually involving multiple participants. Most existing visualization techniques represent narratives as a node-link graph where a sequence of links shows the evolution of causal and temporal relationships between characters in the narrative. These techniques make a number of simplifying assumptions about the narrative structure, however. T...

As our forms of media entertainment and information change, there are more and more examples of non-linear forms within our traditionally linear media. We as a culture are increasingly seeing ourselves as a collection of cultures, each with a voice, each with a story, and each deserving of being a part of every story. The storytelling process includes an author, a story and an audience. When st...

A knapsack problem is to select a set of items that maximizes the total profit selected while keeping weight no less than capacity knapsack. As generalized form with multiple knapsacks, multi-knapsack (MKP) disjointed for each To solve MKP, we propose deep reinforcement learning (DRL) based approach, which takes as input available capacities profits and weights items, normalized unselected dete...

This paper examines the causes and consequences of the narrative paradox phenomenon widely observed in VR. We present an alternative approach to virtual and interactive storytelling in the form of the emergent narrative concept, together with an implementation of a subset of these ideas in the FearNot! demonstrator.

Our research focuses on the problem of automatically acquiring structured narrative information from natural language. We have focused on character extraction and narrative role identification from a corpus of Slavic folktales. To address natural language processing (NLP) issues in this particular domain we have explored alternatives to linear pipelined architectures for information extraction,...

Interactive narratives have been used in a variety of applications, including video games, educational games, and training simulations. Maintaining engagement within such environments is an important problem, because it affects entertainment, motivation, and presence. Performance arts theorists have discussed and formalized many techniques that increase engagement and enhance dramatic content o...

Emergent narrative means that it is the player that unfolds the narrative and then creates its own story. But game should control the drama in order to modify the player emotion through the game by enabling or disabling actions. In the framework of an adaptative system that manages player actions, this paper defines a formal model for interactive narration based on Linear Logic. We introduce a ...