Julie Porteous Julie Porteous

I'm an Associate Professor in the School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University, Melbourne. In the past I've had lecturing posts at Teeside University, University of Durham and The Open University along with post-docs at University of Huddersfield and University of Strathclyde.

Research Interests

  • Automated Planning
  • Interactive Narrative (application of automated planning to narrative generation)
  • Automated acquisition of AI planning domain models
  • Authoring tools for Interactive Narrative
  • Selected Publications

    Julie Porteous, João F. Ferreira, Alan Lindsay, Marc Cavazza. Automated Narrative Planning Model Extension. In: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, volume 35, Article number: 19 (2021) Resources: PDDL Narrative Domain Models (download)

    Mihai Polceanu, Julie Porteous, Alan Lindsay, Marc Cavazza. Narrative Plan Generation with Self-Supervised Learning In Proceedings of the 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (AAAI 2021), Vancouver, Canada, 2-9 February 2021

    Julie Porteous, Alan Lindsay, João F. Ferreira, Marc Cavazza. 2020. Extending Narrative Planning Domains with Linguistic Resources In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems (AAMAS 2020), Auckland, New Zealand, 9-13 May 2020

    Thomas Hayton, Julie Porteous, João F. Ferreira, Alan Lindsay. 2020. Narrative Planning Model Acquisition from Text Summaries and Descriptions In Proceedings of the 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), New York, February 2020

    Julie Porteous, Alan Lindsay. 2019. Protagonist vs Antagonist PROVANT: Narrative Generation as Counter Planning In 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Montreal, May 2019.

    Jean-luc Lugrin, Fred Charles, Michael Habel, Matthews Jamie, Julie Porteous, Henrik Dudaczy, Sebastian Oberdörfer, Alice Wittmann, Christian Seufert, Silke Grafe, Marc Latoschik. 2018. Benchmark Framework for Virtual Students Reactive Behaviours In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Stockholm, July 2018.

    Alan Lindsay, Jonathon Read, João F. Ferreira, Thomas Hayton, Julie Porteous, Peter Gregory. 2017. Framer: Planning Models from Natural Language Action Descriptions In Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Pittsburg, USA, June 18-23, 2017

    Jamie Matthews, Fred Charles, Julie Porteous, Alexandra Mendes. 2017. MISER: Mise-En-Scene Region Support for Staging Narrative Actions in Interactive Storytelling In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Cameron Smith, Marc Cavazza, Jolien Mouw, Paul van den Broek. 2017. Using Virtual Narratives to Explore Children's Story Understanding In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Sao Paulo, Brazil.

    Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Cameron Smith, Marc Cavazza, Jolien Mouw, Paul va den Broek. 2017. An Interactive Narrative Platform for Story Understanding Experiments In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Sao Paulo, Brazil (Demos).

    Jamie Matthews, Fred Charles, Julie Porteous, Alexandra Mendes. 2017. Mise-En-Scène of Narrative Actions in Interactive Storytelling In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Sao Paulo, Brazil (Demos).

    Eric Silverman, Fred Charles, Julie Porteous, Ian Wood, Louisa Ells. 2017. Agent-Based Virtual Urban Environments for Population Health Applications In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Agent-based modelling of urban systems (ABMUS 2017).

    Malcolm McNeely, Julie Porteous, João F. Ferreira, Alan Lindsay. 2017. Towards a Constraints Approach to Generating Personalised Horror Film Variants in Proceedings of the Workshop on Constraint Satisfaction Techniques for Planning and Scheduling Problems (COPLAS). The 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Pittsburgh, USA, June 18-23, 2017

    Thomas Hayton, Julie Porteous, João F. Ferreira, Alan Lindsay, Jonathon Read. 2017. StoryFramer: From Input Stories to Output Planning Models in Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS). The 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Pittsburgh, USA, June 18-23, 2017

    Fabrizio Guerrini, Nicola Adami, Sergio Benini, Alberto Piacenzo, Julie Porteous, Marc Cavazza, Riccardo Leonardi. 2017. Interactive Film Combination ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM) Volume 13 Issue 4, September 2017

    Peter Gregory, Alan Lindsay, Julie Porteous. 2017. Domain Model Acquisition with Missing Information and Noisy Data in Proceedings of the Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS). The 27th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Pittsburgh, USA, June 18-23, 2017

    Jonathan Siddle, João F. Ferreira, Julie Porteous. 2017. Visualization of Patient Behavior from Natural Language Recommendations In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP), Austin, Texas, December 4th-6th, 2017

    Julie Porteous. 2016. Planning Technologies for Interactive Storytelling Chapter in Handbook of Digital Games and Entertainment Technologies, (Editors - Ryohei Nakatsu, Matthias Rauterberg and Paolo Ciancarini), Springer Singapore.

    Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza. 2016. Plan-based Narrative Generation with Coordinated Subplots. In Proceedings of the 22nd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2016), The Hague, The Netherlands

    Thomas Hayton, Peter Gregory, Alan Lindsay, Julie Porteous. 2016. >Best-Fit Action-Cost Domain Model Acquisition and its Application to Authorship in Interactive Narrative In Proceedings of the 12th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment (AIIDE-16), Burlingame, California

    Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza. 2015. Using Social Relationships to Control Narrative Generation. In Proceedings of the 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Virtual Agents Demos, Austin Texas, USA, January 2015.

    Julie Porteous, Alan Lindsay, Jonathon Read, Mark Truran, Marc Cavazza. 2015. Automated Extension of Narrative Planning Domains with Antonymic Operators In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2015.

    Jonathan Teutenberg, Julie Porteous. 2015. Incorporating Global and Local Knowledge in Intentional Narrative Planning In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2015.

    Alan Lindsay, Fred Charles, Jonathon Read, Julie Porteous, Marc Cavazza, Gersende Georg. 2015. Generation of Non-Compliant Behaviour in Virtual Medical Narratives. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2015), Delft, The Netherlands, August 26-28, 2015

    Marc Cavazza, Fred Charles, Stephen Gilroy, Julie Porteous, Gabor Aranyi, Julien Cordry, Gal Raz, Nimrod Jakob Keynan, Avihay Cohen, Gilan Jackont, Yael Jacob, Eyal Soreq, Ilana Klovatch, Talma Hendler. 2015. Virtual Agents in Brain-Computer Interfaces. The International Journal of Virtual Reality, 2015, 15(01), pp. 48-60.

    Marc Cavazza, Fred Charles, Gabor Aranyi Julie Porteous, Stephen Gilroy, Gal Raz, Nimrod Jakob Keynan, Avihay Cohen, Gilan Jackont, Yael Jacob, Eyal Soreq, Ilana Klovatch, Talma Hendler. 2014. Towards Emotional Regulation through Neurofeedback. In Proceedings of the 5th Augmented Human International Conference (AH '14). March 7-9, 2014, Kobe, Japan.

    Marc Cavazza, Fred Charles, Stephen Gilroy, Julie Porteous, Gabor Aranyi, Gal Raz, Nimrod Jakob Keynan, Avihay Cohen, Gilan Jackont, Yael Jacob, Eyal Soreq, Ilana Klovatch, Talma Hendler. 2014. Integrating Virtual Agents in BCI Neurofeedback Systems. In Proceedings of the Virtual Reality International Conference: Laval Virtual (VRIC '14). April 9-13, 2014, Laval, France

    Marc Cavazza, Gabor Aranyi, Fred Charles, Julie Porteous, Stephen Gilroy, Ilana Klovatch, Gilan Jackont, Eyal Soreq, Nimrod Jakob Keynan, Avihay Cohen, Gal Raz, Talma Hendler. 2014. Towards Empathic Neurofeedback for Interactive Storytelling. In Proceedings of 2014 Workshop on Computational Models of Narrative (CMN 2014), July 31–August 2, Quebec City, Canada.

    Marc Cavazza, Gabor Aranyi, Fred Charles, Julie Porteous, Stephen Gilroy, Gilan Jackont, Ilana Klovatch, Gal Raz, Nimrod Jakob Keynan, Avihay Cohen, Talma Hendler. 2014. Frontal Alpha Asymmetry Neurofeedback for Brain-Computer Interfaces. $In Proceedings of the 6th International Brain-Computer Interface Conference 2014, Graz, Austria

    Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza. 2013. NetworkING: using Character Relationships for Interactive Narrative Generation. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Saint-Paul, MN, USA, May 2013, pp. 595-602.

    Jonathan Teutenberg, Julie Porteous. 2013. Efficient Intent-Based Narrative Generation Using Multiple Planning Agents. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Saint-Paul, MN, USA, May 2013, pp. 603-610.

    Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza. 2013. A Social Network Interface to an Interactive Narrative. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2013 - Demos), Saint Paul, MN, USA, May 2013.

    Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza, Cameron Smith, Gersende Georg, Julie Porteous. 2013. Instantiating Interactive Narratives from Patient Education Documents. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME'13), Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 7885, Murcia, Spain, May 29-June 1, 2013, pp. 273-283.

    Stephen Gilroy, Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazz, Ilana Klovatch, Gal Raz, Limor Ikar, Eyal Soreq, Udi Ben-Arie, Talma Hendler. 2013. A Neurofeedback Approach to Supporting Characters in Virtual Stories. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting 2013

    Stephen Gilroy, Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza, Eyel Soreq, Gal Raz, Limor Ikar, Ayelet Or-Borichov, Udi Ben-Arie, Ilana Klovatch, Talma Hendler. 2013. A Brain-Computer Interface to a Plan-based Narrative. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2013), Beijing, China, August 2013, pp. 1997-2005.

    Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza. 2013.Authoring Plan-based Narratives via a Social Network Authoring Plan-based Narratives via a Social Network. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2013) - Application Showcase, Roma, Italy, June 2013, pp. 14-17. (Best Application Showcase Award)

    Stephen Gilroy, Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza. 2012. PINTER: Interactive Storytelling with Physiological Input. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'12) - Demos, February 14-17, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

    Stephen Gilroy, Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza. 2012. Exploring Passive User Interaction for Adaptive Narratives. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI'12), February 14-17, 2012, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 119-128.

    Piacenza, A., Guerrini, F., Adami, N., Leonardi, R., Jonathan Teutenberg, Julie Porteous, Marc Cavazza. 2011. Changing Video Arrangement for Constructing Alternative Stories. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2011 (Demo paper), Scottsdale, AZ, USA. 2011.

    Julie Porteous, Jonathan Teutenberg, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza. 2011. Controlling Narrative Time in Interactive Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2011, pp. 449-456.

    Julie Porteous, Jonathan Teutenberg, David Pizzi, Marc Cavazza. 2011. Visual Programming of Plan Dynamics using Constraints and Landmarks In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), Freiburg, Germany, June 2011, pp. 186-193.

    Julie Porteous, Jonathan Teutenberg, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza. 2011. Interactive Storytelling with Temporal Planning (Demo Paper) In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS - Demos), Taipei, Taiwan, May 2011.

    Fred Charles, Julie Porteous, Jonathan Teutenberg, Marc Cavazza. 2011. Timeline-based Navigation for Interactive Narratives. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology (ACE 2011), Lisbon, Portugal, November 2011.

    Piacenza, A., Guerrini, F., Adami, N., Leonardi, R., Julie Porteous, Jonathan Teutenberg, Marc Cavazza. 2011. Generating Story Variants with Constrained Video Recombination. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2011, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, Nov.-Dec. 2011.

    Julie Porteous, Sergio Benini, Luca Canini, Fred Charles, Marc Cavazza, Riccardo Leonardi. 2010. Interactive Storytelling via Video Content Recombination. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2010 (Brave New Ideas), Firenze, Italy, October 25-29, 2010.

    Julie Porteous, Marc Cavazza, Fred Charles. 2010. Narrative Generation through Characters' Point of View. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), Toronto, Canada, May 2010.

    Marc Cavazza, David Pizzi, Julie Porteous, Fred Charles, Jean-Luc Lugrin. 2010. Bringing Literature to Life with Virtual Reality. Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts (EVA 2010), Florence, Italy, April 2010.

    Julie Porteous, Marc Cavazza, Fred Charles. 2010. Applying Planning to Interactive Storytelling: Narrative Control using State Constraints. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (ACM TIST), 1(2), December 2010, pp. 1-21.

    Fred Charles, Julie Porteous, Marc Cavazza. 2010. Changing Characters' Point of View in Interactive Storytelling. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2010 (Technical Demo), Firenze, Italy, October 25-29, 2010.

    Julie Porteous, Marc Cavazza. 2009. Controlling Narrative Generation with Planning Trajectories: the Role of Constraints. In the Proceedings of Second International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS), Guimarães, Portugal.

    M. Fox, D. Long, Julie Porteous. 2005. Abstraction-based Action Ordering in Planning In Proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI). 2005.

    J. Hoffmann, Julie Porteous, L. Sebastia. 2004. Ordered Landmarks in Planning. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), Volume 22, 2004, pages 215 - 278.

    T. L. McCluskey, Julie Porteous. 1997. Engineering and compiling planning domain models to promote validity and efficiency. Artificial Intelligence Journal Vol.95, pages 1 to 65, 1997.