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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.142

Governing Narrative Events With Institutional Norms

Authors: Matt Thompson, Julian Padget, and Steve Battle

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 45, 6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015)

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A narrative world can be viewed as a form of society in which characters follow a set of social norms whose collective function is to guide the characters through (the creation of) a story arc and reach some conclusion. By modelling the rules of a narrative using norms, we can govern the actions of agents that act out the characters in a story. Agents are given sets of permitted actions and obligations to fulfil based on their and the story’s current situation. However, the decision to conform to these expectations is ultimately left to the agent. This means that the characters have control over fine-grained elements of the story, resulting in a more flexible and dynamic narrative experience. This would allow the creator of an interactive narrative to specify only the general structure of a story, leaving the details to the agents. We illustrate a particular realisation of this vision using a formalization of Propp’s morphology in a normative social framework, with belief-desire-intention agents playing the characters.

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Matt Thompson, Julian Padget, and Steve Battle. Governing Narrative Events With Institutional Norms. In 6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 45, pp. 142-151, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{thompson_et_al:OASIcs.CMN.2015.142,
  author =	{Thompson, Matt and Padget, Julian and Battle, Steve},
  title =	{{Governing Narrative Events With Institutional Norms}},
  booktitle =	{6th Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2015)},
  pages =	{142--151},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-93-4},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{45},
  editor =	{Finlayson, Mark A. and Miller, Ben and Lieto, Antonio and Ronfard, Remi},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.142},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-52889},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.CMN.2015.142},
  annote =	{Keywords: institutions, norms, narrative, agents}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2012.393

LOG-IDEAH: ASP for Architectonic Asset Preservation

Authors: Viviana Novelli, Marina De Vos, Julian Padget, and Dina D’Ayala

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 17, Technical Communications of the 28th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'12) (2012)

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To preserve our cultural heritage, it is important to preserve our architectonic assets, comprising buildings, their decorations and the spaces they encompass. In some geographical areas, occasional natural disasters, specifically earthquakes, damage these cultural assets. Perpetuate is a European Union funded project aimed at establishing a methodology for the classification of the damage to these buildings, expressed as "collapse mechanisms". Structural engineering research has identified 17 different collapse mechanisms for masonry buildings damaged by earthquakes. Following established structural engineering practice, paper-based decisions trees have been specified to encode the recognition process for each of the various collapse mechanisms. In this paper, we report on how answer set programming has been applied to the construction of a machine-processable representation of these collapse mechanisms as an alternative for these decision-trees and their subsequent verification and application to building records from L'Aquila, Algiers and Rhodes. As a result, we advocate that structural engineers do not require the time-consuming and error-prone method of decisions trees, but can instead specify the properties of collapse mechanisms directly as an answer set program.

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Viviana Novelli, Marina De Vos, Julian Padget, and Dina D’Ayala. LOG-IDEAH: ASP for Architectonic Asset Preservation. In Technical Communications of the 28th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'12). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 17, pp. 393-403, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2012)

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@InProceedings{novelli_et_al:LIPIcs.ICLP.2012.393,
  author =	{Novelli, Viviana and De Vos, Marina and Padget, Julian and D’Ayala, Dina},
  title =	{{LOG-IDEAH: ASP for Architectonic Asset Preservation}},
  booktitle =	{Technical Communications of the 28th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP'12)},
  pages =	{393--403},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-43-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2012},
  volume =	{17},
  editor =	{Dovier, Agostino and Santos Costa, V{\'\i}tor},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2012.393},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-36398},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICLP.2012.393},
  annote =	{Keywords: Answer set programming, structural engineering, knowledge representation}
}

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