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Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC '01)
Petri Net Script: A Visual Language for Describing Action, Behaviour and Plot
Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
January 29-February 02
ISBN: 0-7695-0963-0
Leon Blackwell, Curtin University of Technology
Brian von Konsky, Curtin University of Technology
Mike Robey, Curtin University of Technology
Current techniques for behavioural specification provide the ability to describe individual methods of action, interaction and behaviour,but do not allow scripting of a complex behavioural sequence as is required for a virtual actor within the plot of a stage-play. These existing specification techniques are also designed primarily for use by computing experts, usually as a text-based language, and are therefore not easily accessible by laymen. This paper presents Petri Net Script (PNS), a new graphical language for specification of virtual actor behaviour. PNS provides a graphical interface to behavioural scripting that enables specification of actions and interactions for virtual actors that can then interact with human actors in real time. A quantitative justification as to the effectiveness of the new language is evaluated through comparison of required complexity to achieve a simple behaviour against that of a more traditional specification technique using an adaptation of McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity.
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Leon Blackwell, Brian von Konsky, Mike Robey, "Petri Net Script: A Visual Language for Describing Action, Behaviour and Plot," acsc, pp.29, Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC '01), 2001
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