Story planning as exploratory creativity: Techniques for expanding the narrative search space

New Generation Computing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 303-323

  Riedl, Mark O ^a   Young, R Michael ^b  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploratory creativity; Narrative intelligence; Story generation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL STORY GENERATION; SEARCH SPACE; STORY PLANNING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 33845625744     PISSN: 02883635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03037337     Document Type: Article

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