Publications

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Refereed Journal Articles

• Molly Siler, Stephen G. Ware. Solution density and search strategy in narrative generation. IEEE Transactions on Games, vol. 14, num. 4, pp. 715-724, 2022.

Refereed Conference Papers

• Molly Siler, Stephen G. Ware. An answer set encoding for narrative planning with Theory of Mind. In Proceedings of the 21st AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 132-141, 2025.
• Molly Siler, Mira Fisher, Stephen G. Ware. Pareto-based narrative planning: making NPCs more rational. In Proceedings of the 21st AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 337-346, 2025. (full paper presented as poster)
• Mira Fisher, Molly Siler, Stephen G. Ware. Structure, agency, and improvisation in human-led digital interactive narrative exercises. In Proceedings of the 21st AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 237-246, 2025. (full paper presented as poster)
• Stephen G. Ware, Molly Siler. Sabre: a narrative planner supporting intention and deep theory of mind. In Proceedings of the 17th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 99-106, 2021. Awarded nomination for Best Paper.
• Molly Siler, Stephen G. Ware. A good story is one in a million: solution density in narrative generation problems. In Proceedings of the 16th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 123-129, 2020. Awarded nomination for Best Student Paper.

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.
• Molly Siler, Stephen G. Ware. Structure, agency, and intent: preliminary data collection. In Proceedings of the Interactive Narrative Technologies workshop at the 20th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2024.
• Molly Siler, Stephen G. Ware. Knowledge goal recognition for interactive narratives. In Proceedings of the Experimental AI in Games workshop at the 19th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2023.
• Mira Fisher, Molly Siler, Stephen G. Ware. Intelligent de-escalation training via emotion-inspired narrative planning. In Proceedings of the 13th Intelligent Narrative Technologies workshop at the 18th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2022.
• Molly Siler. Open-world narrative generation to answer players' questions. In Doctoral Consortium at the 18th AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, pp. 307-310, 2022.

Refereed Posters and Extended Abstracts

• Stephen G. Ware, Molly Siler. The Sabre narrative planner: multi-agent coordination with intentions and beliefs. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, pp. 1698-1700, 2021.