Computational Creativity Research: Towards Creative Machines

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Stakeholder Groups in Computational Creativity Research and Practice

      • Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Joseph Corneli, Michael Cook, Rose Hepworth, Dan Ventura

      Pages 3-36

   3. Weak and Strong Computational Creativity

      • Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie, Mark Bishop

      Pages 37-49

   4. Theorem: General Intelligence Entails Creativity, Assuming \(\ldots \)

      • Selmer Bringsjord

      Pages 51-63

   5. The Computational Creativity Complex

      • Dan Ventura

      Pages 65-92

   6. How Models of Creativity and Analogy Need to Answer the Tailorability Concern

      • John Licato, Selmer Bringsjord, Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu

      Pages 93-107

   7. On the Role of Computers in Creativity-Support Systems

      • Bipin Indurkhya

      Pages 109-125

   8. IDyOT: A Computational Theory of Creativity as Everyday Reasoning from Learned Information

      • Geraint A. Wiggins, Jamie Forth

      Pages 127-148

3. Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149

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   2. Accounting for Creativity Within a Psychologically Realistic Cognitive Architecture

      • Ron Sun, Sebastien Helie

      Pages 151-165

   3. E Pluribus Unum

      • Oliver Kutz, John Bateman, Fabian Neuhaus, Till Mossakowski, Mehul Bhatt

      Pages 167-196

   4. Ode to a Keatsian Turn: Creating Meaningful and Poetic Instances of Rhetorical Forms

      • Tony Veale

      Pages 197-215

   5. Open-Ended Elaborations in Creative Metaphor

      • John Barnden

      Pages 217-242

   6. Poetry Generation with PoeTryMe

      • Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira, Amílcar Cardoso

      Pages 243-266

   7. From MEXICA to MEXICA-Impro: The Evolution of a Computer Model for Plot Generation

      • Rafael Pérez y Pérez

      Pages 267-284

   8. Handle: Engineering Artificial Musical Creativity at the “Trickery” Level

      • Simon Ellis, Alex Haig, Naveen Sundar G, Selmer Bringsjord, Joe Valerio, Jonas Braasch et al.

      Pages 285-308

   9. Computational Creativity and Music

      • David Cope

      Pages 309-326

   10. A Culinary Computational Creativity System

       • Florian Pinel, Lav R. Varshney, Debarun Bhattacharjya

       Pages 327-346

   11. Interactive Meta-Reasoning: Towards a CAD-Like Environment for Designing Game-Playing Agents

       • Ashok K. Goel, Spencer Rugaber

       Pages 347-370

Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence in their own right all are flourishing research disciplines producing surprising and captivating results that continuously influence and change our view on where the limits of intelligent machines lie, each day pushing the boundaries a bit further. By 2014, all three fields also have left their marks on everyday life – machine-composed music has been performed in concert halls, automated theorem provers are accepted tools in enterprises’ R&D departments, and cognitive architectures are being integrated in pilot assistance systems for next generation airplanes. Still, although the corresponding aims and goals are clearly similar (as are the common methods and approaches), the developments in each of these areas have happened mostly individually within the respective community and without closer relationships to the goings-on in the other two disciplines. In order to overcome this gap and to provide a common platform for interaction and exchange between the different directions, the International Workshops on “Computational Creativity, Concept Invention, and General Intelligence” (C3GI) have been started. At ECAI-2012 and IJCAI-2013, the first and second edition of C3GI each gathered researchers from all three fields, presenting recent developments and results from their research and in dialogue and joint debates bridging the disciplinary boundaries. The chapters contained in this book are based on expanded versions of accepted contributions to the workshops and additional selected contributions by renowned researchers in the relevant fields. Individually, they give an account of the state-of-the-art in their respective area, discussing both, theoretical approaches as well as implemented systems. When taken together and looked at from an integrative perspective, the book in its totality offers a starting point for a (re)integration of Computational Creativity, Concept Invention,and General Intelligence, making visible common lines of work and theoretical underpinnings, and pointing at chances and opportunities arising from the interplay of the three fields.

• Cognitive science
• Computational creativity
• Creative artefact generation
• Creative machines
• Human-level artificial intelligence

• Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

  Tarek R. Besold

• IIIA-CSIC, Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain

  Marco Schorlemmer

• CISA, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Alan Smaill

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