This paper examines the symbolism of magic lamp in Mark Twain's The Adventures Huckleberry Finn (1884) and Kurt Vonnegut's Hal Irwin's Magic Lamp (1957). study, which uses an archetypal approach to texts, demonstrates how American authors use literary source image from Middle Eastern folktale collection Arabian Nights, where essentially represents Aladdin's dream a quick route success. Furtherm...

Our goal is to provide learning mechanisms to game agents so they are capable of adapting to new behaviors based on the actions of other agents. We introduce a new on-line reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm, ALeRT-AM, that includes an agent-modeling mechanism. We implemented this algorithm in BioWare Corp.’s role-playing game, Neverwinter Nights to evaluate its effectiveness in a real game. ...

Abstract The following is an edited transcript of the opening plenary session Institute for World Literature in July 2020 – held online as a result Covid-19. In this conversation with IWL ’s director and associate director, Orhan Pamuk discusses his understanding world literature place it, ongoing work on novel Nights Plague , then nearing completion.

About the Author Dr. Ibitayo is Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington, College of Nursing, Arlington, Texas. Address correspondence to Kristina Ibitayo, PhD, RN, Clinical Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Arlington, College of Nursing, 411 S. Nedderman Drive, Box 19407, Arlington, TX 76019; e-mail: [email protected]. Received: October 18, 2010 Accepted: ...

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...

In this paper we investigate whether a personality profile can be determined by observing a player’s behavior in a game. Five personality traits are used to define a personality profile. They are adopted from the Five Factor Model of personality. The five traits are measured by the NEO-PI-R questionnaire. For our purpose, we developed a game module for the game Neverwinter Nights. The module au...