About this book series

Creativity has become the motto of the modern world: everyone, every institution, and every company is exhorted to create, to innovate, to think out of the box. This calls for the design of a new class of technology, aimed at assisting humans in tasks that are deemed creative.

Developing a machine capable of synthesizing completely novel instances from a certain domain of interest is a formidable challenge for computer science, with potentially ground-breaking applications in fields such as biotechnology, design, and art. Creativity and originality are major requirements, as is the ability to interact with humans in a virtuous loop of recommendation and feedback. The problem calls for an interdisciplinary perspective, combining fields such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, engineering, design, and experimental psychology. Related questions and challenges include the design of systems that effectively explore large instance spaces; evaluating automatic generation systems, notably in creative domains; designing systems that foster creativity in humans; formalizing (aspects of) the notions of creativity and originality; designing productive collaboration scenarios between humans and machines for creative tasks; and understanding the dynamics of creative collective systems.

This book series intends to publish monographs, textbooks and edited books with a strong technical content, and focuses on approaches to computational synthesis that contribute not only to specific problem areas, but more generally introduce new problems, new data, or new well-defined challenges to computer science. 

Electronic ISSN
2509-6583
Print ISSN
2509-6575
Series Editor
  • François Pachet,
  • Pablo Gervás,
  • Andrea Passerini,
  • Mirko Degli Esposti

Book titles in this series

  1. Artificial Intelligence and the Arts

    Computational Creativity, Artistic Behavior, and Tools for Creatives

    Editors:
    • Penousal Machado
    • Juan Romero
    • Gary Greenfield
    • Copyright: 2021

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • Soft cover
    • eBook
  2. Computational Creativity

    The Philosophy and Engineering of Autonomously Creative Systems

    Editors:
    • Tony Veale
    • F. Amílcar Cardoso
    • Copyright: 2019

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • eBook
  3. Concept Invention

    Foundations, Implementation, Social Aspects and Applications

    Editors:
    • Roberto Confalonieri
    • Alison Pease
    • Marco Schorlemmer
    • Tarek R. Besold
    • Copyright: 2018

    Available Renditions

    • Hard cover
    • Soft cover
    • eBook