Publications

2024

Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen G. Ware. Large language models as narrative planning search guides. IEEE Transactions on Games, 2024. (forthcoming)
Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen G. Ware. Planning stories neurally. 2024.

Stephen G. Ware, Lasantha Senanayake, Rachelyn Farrell. Causal Necessity as a Narrative Planning Step Cost Function. In Proceedings of the 19th AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 155-164, 2023.
Stephen G. Ware, Rachelyn Farrell. A Collection of Benchmark Problems for the Sabre Narrative Planner. Narrative Intelligence Lab, 2023.

Stephen G. Ware, Edward T. Garcia, Mira Fisher, Alireza Shirvani, Rachelyn Farrell. Multi-agent narrative experience management as story graph pruning. IEEE Transactions on Games, vol. 15, num. 3, pp. 378-387, 2022.
Rachelyn Farrell, Mira Fisher, Stephen G. Ware. Salience vectors for measuring distance between stories. In Proceedings of the 18th AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 95-104, 2022.
Stephen G. Ware, Rachelyn Farrell. Salience as a narrative planning step cost function. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games, pp. 433-440, 2022.
Rachelyn Farrell. Don't give me that story!--a human-centered framework for usable narrative planning. Ph.D. thesis at University of Kentucky, 2022.

Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen G. Ware, Lewis J. Baker. Manipulating narrative salience in interactive stories using Indexter's Pairwise Event Salience Hypothesis. IEEE Transactions on Games, vol. 12, num. 1, pp. 74-85, 2020.
Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen G. Ware. Narrative planning for belief and intention recognition. In Proceedings of the 16th AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 52-58, 2020.

Stephen G. Ware, Edward T. Garcia, Alireza Shirvani, Rachelyn Farrell. Multi-agent narrative experience management as story graph pruning. In Proceedings of the 15th AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 87-93, 2019.

Alireza Shirvani, Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen G. Ware. Combining intentionality and belief: revisiting believable character plans. In Proceedings of the 14th AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 222-228, 2018.
Rachelyn Farrell. Experience management with beliefs, desires, and intentions for virtual agents. In Doctoral Consortium at the 14th AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 290-292, 2018.
Ben Samuel, Aaron Reed, Emily Short, Samantha Heck, Barrie Robison, Landon Wright, Terence Soule, Mike Treanor, Joshua McCoy, Anne Sullivan, Alireza Shirvani, Edward T. Garcia, Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen Ware, Katherine Compton. Playable experiences at AIIDE 2018. In Proceedings of the 14th AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 275-280, 2018.

Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen G. Ware. Influencing user choices in interactive narratives using Indexter's pairwise event salience hypothesis. In Proceedings of the 13th AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 37-42, 2017.
Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen G. Ware. Causal link semantics for narrative planning using numeric fluents. In Proceedings of the 13th AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 193-199, 2017.
Alireza Shirvani, Stephen G. Ware, Rachelyn Farrell. A possible worlds model of belief for state-space narrative planning. In Proceedings of the 13th AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 101-107, 2017.
Rachelyn Farrell. Predicting user choices in interactive narratives using Indexter's pairwise event salience hypothesis. M.S. thesis at University of New Orleans, 2017.

Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen G. Ware. Predicting user choices in interactive narratives using Indexter's pairwise event salience hypothesis. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, pp. 147-155, 2016.
Rachelyn Farrell, Scott Robertson, Stephen G. Ware. Asking hypothetical questions about stories using QUEST. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, pp. 136-146, 2016.
Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen G. Ware. Fast and diverse narrative planning through novelty pruning. In Proceedings of the 12th AAAI international conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 37-43, 2016.