- Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
- Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers Presented as Posters
- Peer-Reviewed Workshop and Consortium Papers
- Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
- Theses
- Other Publications
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Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers
CPOCL: A Narrative Planner Supporting Conflict by Stephen G. Ware and R. Michael Young
The Seventh Annual International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2011)
The full, formal description of the CPOCL (Conflict Partial Order Causal Link) Planner with a working example.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers Presented as Posters
Modeling Narrative Conflict to Generate Interesting Stories by Stephen G. Ware and R. Michael Young
The Sixth Annual International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE 2010)
Initial work on modeling conflict in partial order planning using threatened causal links, including initial formulas for the 7 dimensions of conflict.
Peer-Reviewed Workshop and Consortium Papers
Initial Results for Measuring Four Dimensions of Narrative Conflict by Stephen G. Ware, Brent Harrison, R. Michael Young, and David L. Roberts
Fourth Workshop on Intelligent Narrative Technologies (INT 4)
Results of an experiment that validates our formulas for measuring the balance, directness, intensity, and resolution of a given conflict in a story.
A Computational Modal of Narrative Conflict by Stephen G. Ware
Doctoral Consortium, International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2011)
Identifies several important, open questions in my research on computational models of conflict in narrative.
Rethinking Traditional Planning Assumptions to Facilitate Narrative Generation by Stephen G. Ware and R. Michael Young
AAAI Fall Symposium on Computational Models of Narrative, 2010
In fictional digital worlds, where the author has control over the world state, traditional planning constraints can be relaxed in order to help a story planner form a plot which better suits the author's needs.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Introduction to Graph Theory by Stephen G. Ware
in Practical Graph Mining with R: Students' Series (forthcoming)
An introduction to basic terms in Graph Theory which will be used throughout the book.
Frequent Subgraph Mining by Brent Harrison, Jason Smith, and Stephen G. Ware et al.
in Practical Graph Mining with R: Students' Series (forthcoming)
A survey of three important algorithms for discovering frequent substructures in large graph-based data.
Theses
Toward a Computational Model of Narrative Conflict by Stephen G. Ware, advised by R. Michael Young
Ph.D. Qualifying Exam, North Carolina State University, 2011
A detailed description of how narrative conflict can be formally represented in stories using existing structures from partial order planning. This thesis presents a detailed survey of previous work, the evolution of the CPOCL (Conflict Partial Order Causal Link) Planning Algorithm, and 7 quantitative dimensions of conflict which can be measured in order to tailor the content automatically generated stories.
Merlin's Beard and Odin's Eye: A Jungian Exploration of the Wizard Archetype in Literature, Opera, and Cinema by Stephen G. Ware, advised by William T. Cotton
Honor's Thesis, Loyola University New Orleans, 2008
A detailed examination of five wizards from various media forms: Merlin, Wotan, Gandalf, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Dumbledore. The similarity between these characters and the importance of the Wizard Archetype can be explained using Jungian psychology. I also present the Wizard Cycle, a structure analogous to Campbell's Monomythic Hero Cycle.
Other Publications
The Wise Old Man as the Archetype of the Spirit by Stephen G. Ware
Loyola University Reader's Response, 2009
Using Jung's theory of archetypes, the appeal of the Wizard character can be explained as a representation of a unified psyche that hero subconsciously quests to attain.
Nobody's Problem: A Response to Thomas Metzinger's Being No One by Stephen G. Ware
Loyola University New Orleans Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy, 2008
Metzinger's theory of phenomenal consciousness ("what-it-is-like-ness") is interesting and unique, but ultimately it dodges the question of how p-consciousness exists, and is thus an unsatisfying explanation.