01408nas a2200133   4500008004100000245007300041210006900114260003700183520092300220100001901143700002501162700002101187856006601208       2022                        eng d00aEvolutionary Construction of Stories that Combine Several Plot Lines0 aEvolutionary Construction of Stories that Combine Several Plot L  aMadrid, SpainbSpringerc04/20223 aAlthough the narrative structure of common entertainment products like Hollywood movies or TV series is generally composed of a number of different plot lines combined into a single narrative discourse, efforts on computational modeling of story generation have to this point focused mostly on the construction of stories with a single plot line. The present paper explores an evolutionary solution to the task of building a story that combines more than one plot line into a single linear discourse. This requires: a set of knowledge resources that capture the main features that influence the decisions involved, a representation suitable for evolutionary treatment for discourses with several plot lines, and a set of fitness functions based on metrics related to the quality of the resulting discourses. The proposed solution produces populations of stories with elaborate discourses that combine several subplots.1 aGervás, Pablo1 aConcepción, Eugenio1 aMéndez, Gonzalo  uhttps://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-03789-4_5