Publications

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Refereed Conference Papers

• Lasantha Senanayake, Stephen G. Ware, Gage Birchmeier. Narrative planning using LLMs as a model of action believability. In Proceedings of the 22nd AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2026. (forthcoming)
• Lasantha Senanayake, Stephen G. Ware. Speeding up narrative planning using Fog of War Pruning. In Proceedings of the 21st AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 121-131, 2025. Awarded Best Paper.
• Lasantha Senanayake, Stephen G. Ware. Language models as narrative planning heuristics. In Proceedings of the 20th international conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, 2025. Awarded Best Paper.
• Stephen G. Ware, Lasantha Senanayake, Rachelyn Farrell. Causal necessity as a narrative planning step cost function. In Proceedings of the 19th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 155-164, 2023.

Refereed Workshop and Symposium Papers

• Stephen G. Ware, Molly Siler, Lasantha Senanayake. Tandem Tales: a paired storytelling research platform. In Proceedings of the Experimental AI in Games workshop at the 22nd AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2026.
• Molly Siler, Stephen G. Ware, Gage Birchmeier, Mira Fisher, Lasantha Senanayake. Designing a modular, scalable benchmark for narrative experience management. In Proceedings of the joint workshop on Experimental AI in Games and Intelligent Narrative Technologies at the 21st AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2025.
• Lasantha Senanayake. From emergence to planning: a triangle framework for scalable, controllable interactive storytelling. In Doctoral Consortium at the 21st AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 450-453, 2025.