The Grid: Stronger, Bigger, Smarter? Presenting a conceptual framework of power system resilience

Interactive storytelling is a rapidly emerging field that tries to reconcile story-like experiences with user control. These forces oppose each other, as story implies predetermination and author intent, and interactivity implies freedom and variability. This paper focuses on unscripted (emergent) narrative and addresses the authoring problem resulting from bringing story development into free form interaction. It discusses the possibility of writing story pieces as input knowledge, portraying both believable character behaviour and interesting story situations. It also discusses how such input knowledge can be a source of inspiration for agents in an emergent narrative simulation to improve its potential for story development

A Knowledge-based Scenario Framework to Support Intelligent Planning Characters

Agent technologies have been successfully applied to craft believable characters in interactive scenarios. However, intelligent characters specialized for a controlled scenario with a predefined story are inadequate for open-ended scenarios. The key to deal with the openendedness problem lies in the characters' ability to understand and analyze unexpected situations. Thus, an explicit representation of the environment is crucial. We found ontologies in the form of interconnected concepts to be an appropriate high-level representation because it enables character agents to reason about the world through inference. This paper proposes a knowledge-based framework for the construction of agent-based scenarios. The physical properties of the environment are dynamically converted to instances of concepts. We also show how an intelligent planning character, without any implicit knowledge about the scenario, can exploit the resources in the environment to make plans