scenarios

n.

an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work)

a setting for a work of art or literature

"the scenario is France during the Reign of Terror"

a postulated sequence of possible events

"planners developed several scenarios in case of an attack"

Scenarios for Ambient Intelligence in 2010
Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation
Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100.
IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios
Sala, O. E. et al. Global biodiversity scenarios for the Year 2100. Science
How should we define ‘fitness’ for general ecological scenarios?
Future projections for Mexican faunas under global climate change scenarios.
Special report on emissions scenarios : a special report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Discovering Supersymmetry at the Tevatron in Wino Lightest Supersymmetric Particle Scenarios
Effects of climate change on global food production under SRES emissions and socio-economic scenarios