Use cases are the accepted contemporary vehicle for the capture, collection and management of functional requirements for information systems and networked eand mcommerce environments .While employed widely, use cases lack a critical theoretical foundation. As a result, the applications of use cases vary greatly in practice. We present an analysis of use cases based on the narrative semiotics o...

We present a narrative theory-based approach to data mining that generates cohesive stories from a Wikipedia corpus. This approach is based on a data mining-friendly view of narrative derived from narratology, and uses a prototype mining algorithm that implements this view. Our initial test case and focus is that of field-based educational tour narrative generation, for which we have successful...

abstractin this article, iranian society in the 80s is analyzed in terms of its prevailing insights using the theory of reflection in the sociology of cinema. this theory, which considers art as a mirror for society, permits researcher to study the predominant perceptions of the period under investigation. this is done through assessment of the image of hero shown in its cinema. moreover, the g...

this paper aims to offer a critical reading of the contemporary english author ian mcewan’s fifth novel entitled black dogs (1992). i postulate that literary critics have frequently read his fiction for what it is not. as such, mcewan’s thought-provoking engagement with cultural questions has more often than not gone unexamined owing to a critical blueprint that, reducing his oeuvre to the topo...

Reasoning with Narratives’ is an attempt to combine narrative theory with theories of knowledge representation and knowledge acquisition in order to establish a foundation for computer aided narrative analysis. The theoretical foundation in the area of narratology is mainly derived from a structural approach. A number of narratologies are examined, and a unified model based on the notions of su...