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The Digital Synaptic Neural Substrate

A New Approach to Computational Creativity

Authors:

  1. Azlan Iqbal

    1. College of Information Technology, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Putrajaya, Malaysia

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  2. Matej Guid

    1. University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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  3. Simon Colton

    1. Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, United Kingdom

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  4. Jana Krivec

    1. Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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  5. Shazril Azman

    1. College of Graduate Studies, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Putrajaya, Malaysia

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  6. Boshra Haghighi

    1. College of Graduate Studies, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Tehran, Iran

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  • New and practical approach in designing a computationally creative system that generates creative output
  • Breakthrough in automatic chess problem composing technology, challenging the prevailing dominance of human composers
  • Offers a detailed explanation of the DSNS concept, the composing algorithm and composing source code
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Cognitive Computation (BRIEFSCC, volume 3)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    • Azlan Iqbal, Matej Guid, Simon Colton, Jana Krivec, Shazril Azman, Boshra Haghighi
    Pages 1-3

  3. Review

    • Azlan Iqbal, Matej Guid, Simon Colton, Jana Krivec, Shazril Azman, Boshra Haghighi
    Pages 5-10

  4. Methodology

    • Azlan Iqbal, Matej Guid, Simon Colton, Jana Krivec, Shazril Azman, Boshra Haghighi
    Pages 11-19

  5. Experimental Work

    • Azlan Iqbal, Matej Guid, Simon Colton, Jana Krivec, Shazril Azman, Boshra Haghighi
    Pages 21-44

  6. Consolidation of Results

    • Azlan Iqbal, Matej Guid, Simon Colton, Jana Krivec, Shazril Azman, Boshra Haghighi
    Pages 45-48

  7. Conclusions

    • Azlan Iqbal, Matej Guid, Simon Colton, Jana Krivec, Shazril Azman, Boshra Haghighi
    Pages 49-50

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 51-119
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About this book

This book describes a new computational approach to creativity. With chess as the domain of investigation, the authors show experimentally how a computer can be imbued with the 'spark' of creativity that enables it to compose chess problems or puzzles that are both challenging and aesthetically appealing to humans. This new approach called the Digital Synaptic Neural Substrate (DSNS) mimics the brain's ability to combine fragments of seemingly unrelated information from different domains (such as chess, photographs and music) to inspire itself to create new objects in any of them. Representing the cutting edge in computational creativity research, this book will be useful to students, educators and researchers in the field as well as artificial intelligence (AI) practitioners, in general.


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Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Information Technology, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Putrajaya, Malaysia

    Azlan Iqbal

  • University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Matej Guid

  • Goldsmiths College, University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Simon Colton

  • Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Jana Krivec

  • College of Graduate Studies, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Putrajaya, Malaysia

    Shazril Azman

  • College of Graduate Studies, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Tehran, Iran

    Boshra Haghighi

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Digital Synaptic Neural Substrate

  • Book Subtitle: A New Approach to Computational Creativity

  • Authors: Azlan Iqbal, Matej Guid, Simon Colton, Jana Krivec, Shazril Azman, Boshra Haghighi

  • Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Cognitive Computation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28079-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Author(s) 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-28078-3Published: 10 February 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-28079-0Published: 02 February 2016

  • Series ISSN: 2212-6023

  • Series E-ISSN: 2212-6031

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 119

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation

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