Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Alireza Shirvani, Stephen G. Ware, Lewis J. Baker. Personality and emotion in strong-story narrative planning. IEEE Transactions on Games, vol. 15, num. 4, pp. 669-682, 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.

Alireza Shirvani, Stephen G. Ware. A formalization of emotional planning for strong-story systems. In Proceedings of the 16th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 116-122, 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 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 87-93, 2019.
Alireza Shirvani, Stephen G. Ware. A plan-based personality model for story characters. In Proceedings of the 15th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 188-194, 2019.
Alireza Shirvani, Rachelyn Farrell, Stephen G. Ware. Combining intentionality and belief: revisiting believable character plans. In Proceedings of the 14th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 222-228, 2018. (full paper presented as poster)
Alireza Shirvani, Stephen G. Ware, Rachelyn Farrell. A possible worlds model of belief for state-space narrative planning. In Proceedings of the 13th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 101-107, 2017.

Alireza Shirvani, Stephen G. Ware. Camelot: a modular customizable sandbox for visualizing interactive narratives. In Proceedings of the 12th Intelligent Narrative Technologies workshop at the 16th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2020.
Alireza Shirvani, Stephen G. Ware. On automatically motivating story characters. In Proceedings of the Experimental AI in Games workshop at the 15th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2019.
Alireza Shirvani. Towards more believable characters using personality and emotion. In Doctoral Consortium at the 15th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 230-232, 2019.

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 conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 275-280, 2018.