An interactive narrative is a story that is shaped by digital technology and that allows the dynamic presentation of scenes or sequences based on input from the user. In this paper we present a new foundation for interactive storytelling that allows a mobile user to interact with a story. The user is placed at the center of the story and the story comes to the user in transit. The behavior and ...

We present an implemented model of story understanding and apply it to the understanding of a children’s story. We argue that understanding a story consists of building multirepresentation models of the story and that story models are efficiently constructed using a satisfiability solver. We present a computer program that contains multiple representations of commonsense knowledge, takes a narr...

In this paper, we describe a computational system that generates story analogues based on previous stories. Unlike many previous works on story generation that attempt to produce a story artifact from a set of highlevel specifications, we describe an approach that generates relatively novel stories by transforming existing stories to new contexts. We describe an algorithm for using analogical r...

short story is one of the newborn literary genres that has drawn special attention of  literary men and researchers to itself in recent years because of its general effect on literature and its special influence on reader of a literary work. this article investigates short story comparatively in arabic and persian literature. the aim of this paper is to discover latent aspects of short story in...

In this paper we present a novel and noble approach to revitalize the sense of community that began to diminish due to our modern and fast pace life style. In order for any community to flourish, members have to collaborate and work together. Innovative and cutting edge technologies should be used to benefit and not harm our personal lives, families and the society we live in. Community Linked ...

Crafting satisfying narratives while preserving player freedom is a longstanding challenge for computer games. The quest structure used by many games allows players to experience content nonlinearly, but risks creating disjointed stories when side quests only minimally integrate with the main story. We propose a flexible, scene-based emergent story system that reacts to the player’s actions whi...

The hurricane remains one of the outstanding enigmas of fluid dynamics. This is so, in part, because the phenomenon is comparatively difficult to observe and because no laboratory analogue has been discovered. To this it must be added that hurricanes have received surprisingly little attention from the theoretically inclined fluid dynamicist, perhaps owing to an understandable tendency to avoid...

According to Hans Kamp and Frank Vlach, the two-dimensional tense operators “now” and “then” are ineliminable in quantified tense logic. This is often adduced as an argument against tense logic, and in favor of an extensional account that makes use of explicit quantification over times. The aim of this paper is to defend tense logic against this attack. It is shown that “now” and “then” are eli...

While from the viewpoint of typology it is often stated that the genre of detective fiction originated with the work of Edgar Allan Poe, this statement can be challenged from the standpoint of literary or reception history. Several recent histories of detective fiction emphasize the importance of employing a wider generic view, yet they hardly expand their perspective beyond English literary tr...

In this contribution we propose an analogue receiver that can perform turbo detection inMIMO systems. We present the case for a receiver that is built from nonlinear analogue devices, which perform detection in a “free-flow” network (no notion of iterations). This contribution can be viewed as an extension of analogue turbo decoder concepts to include MIMO detection. These first analogue implem...