Computer-supported novel composition based on externalization

The researches for automatic novel composition started on the basis of the successful results in knowledge-engineering/science, and today is one of interesting topics in the knowledge society or the intelligence environment age. The important element is a scenario, which is necessary to determine the novel structure as the systematical scheme with interactive relationships among events in spatio-temporal view. Also, a story is introduced to represent the physical time-sequence among events. The event order in scenario is not the same as that in story. In this paper, we address an effective support function for composing scenarios, which makes beginners to write easily with help of externalization. Two different approaches "top-down-like divergence" and "bottom-up-like convergence" are comparatively supported in our creative thinking process. Our key concepts for scenario composition are "flexible manipulation for creative work" and "externalization of various types of descriptions/specifications under two approaches". (C) 2014 Published by Elsevier B.V.