Narrative Planning: Balancing Plot and Character

Understand

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 communicators, entertainers, educators, and trainers.
• One of the central challenges in computational narrative reasoning is narrative generation, the automated creation of meaningful event sequences.
• There are many factors -- logical and aesthetic -- that contribute to the success of a narrative artifact.