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The goal of this research is to lay the foundations for a formal theory of drama, that abstracts from the procedural and interactive aspects involved in the generation of dramatic content. The theory characterizes dramatic qualities by reconciling the structural accounts provided by traditional drama analysis with an agent-based perspective on characters.
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Damiano, R., Lombardo, V., Pizzo, A. (2005). Laying the Foundations for a Formal Theory of Drama. In: Bandini, S., Manzoni, S. (eds) AI*IA 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3673. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11558590_29
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