Narrative, and in particular storytelling, is an important part of the human experience.
Consequently, computational systems that can reason about narrative can be more effective …

BDI agents have been used with considerable success to model humans and create human-
like characters in simulated environments. A key reason for this success is that the BDI …

Storytelling, especially in the form called drama, is pervasive across cultures and ages.
Though much attention has been devoted to the preservation of the physical supports of …

The gaming industry has changed dramatically over the past few years. Where the
development focus used to be on the graphical possibilities of the games, that is, the …

This paper reports about the release of a comprehensive ontological resource on drama,
called Drammar. Drama is pervasive across cultures and is realized through disparate …

In communication refinement with multiple communication protocols and abstraction levels,
the system specification is described by heterogeneous components in terms of …

This paper addresses the annotation of the narrative features of media objects. Based on a
relevant narratological and computational background, we introduce an ontology–based …

This paper presents an ontological approach to the domain of drama. After a description of
the drama domain in a crosscultural and media setting, we introduce the ontology Drammar …

In this paper we present mental state abduction, a technique for inferring the mental states
(beliefs, goals) of BDI-based agents from observations of their actions. Abduced mental …

Classifying an unknown input is a fundamental problem in pattern recognition. A common
method is to define a distance metric between patterns and find the most similar pattern in …