Drama managers reconfigure a game in reaction to a player’s actions. In declarative optimization-based drama management (DODM), a game’s story is abstracted as a sequence of plot points; possible drama manager interventions are abstracted as a set of DM actions. The author defines an function evaluating story quality, and some optimization method (currently reinforcement learning) chooses DM ac...

Interactive story writing is a new medium for creative expression. The story “writer” uses a computer game (such as BioWare’s Neverwinter Nights) to create an interactive story where the “reader” is an active participant. The state of the art is that the story (plot, character behaviors, character interactions, conversations, etc.) is specified by writing scripts. Unfortunately, scripting is to...

Our goal is to enable Non Player Characters (NPC) in computer games to exhibit natural behaviors. The quality of behaviors affects the game experience especially in storybased games, which rely on player-NPC interactions. We used Reinforcement Learning to enable NPC companions to develop preferences for actions. We implemented our RL technique in BioWare Corp.’s Neverwinter Nights. Our experime...

The article is devoted to the problem of incorrect understanding such a relevant today phenomenon as looting, responsibility for which provided in Art. 432 current Criminal Code Ukraine. An attempt has been made show detail true content objective and subjective features legal composition considered socially dangerous with simultaneous comparative analysis it some criminal offenses against prope...

Sugar cane, an intermediate day plant, clearly received a stronger stimulus to flower during lengthening nights than during shortening nights. Flowering was vigorous under warm, lengthening nights (21 degrees ) but less so under cool, lengthening nights (16-17 degrees ). Warm or cool shortening nights either failed to induce flowering altogether or reduced it substantially. Under the warmer nig...

Plant growth in cold climates is not limited by carbon assimilation (source activity) but rather by reduced carbon investment into new tissues (sink limitation). It has been hypothesized that all cold-adapted plants face similar growth constraints at low temperature mainly associated with the formation of new tissues. To explore the thermal limitation of plant tissue formation, we studied root ...