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Cognition and the Creative Machine

Cognitive AI for Creative Problem Solving

  • Examines creativity, problem-solving, cognition, and computational creative systems

  • Author describes prototype systems implemented and computational and empirical experiments conducted

  • Interesting for researchers and graduate students in the areas of artificial intelligence, creativity, and psychology

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
  2. Introduction

    • Ana-Maria Oltețeanu
    Pages 1-6
  3. Rebraiding the Strands: Creativity and Problem Solving, Human and Computational

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-10
    2. Creativity, Problem Solving and Insight

      • Ana-Maria Oltețeanu
      Pages 11-23
    3. Knowledge Organization for Creative Problem Solving

      • Ana-Maria Oltețeanu
      Pages 25-32
    4. Computational Creativity and Systems

      • Ana-Maria Oltețeanu
      Pages 33-39
  4. One Ring to Creatively Solve Them All? In Search of a Unified Cognitive Framework

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-57
    2. Gathering the Cogs of a Framework

      • Ana-Maria Oltețeanu
      Pages 59-67
    3. CreaCogs – A Clockwork View of Creativity

      • Ana-Maria Oltețeanu
      Pages 69-90
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 253-282

About this book

How would you assemble a machine that can be creative, what would its cogs be? Starting from how humans do creative problem solving, the author has developed a framework to explore whether a diverse set of creative problem-solving tasks can be solved computationally using a unified set of principles. In this book she describes the implementation of related prototype AI systems, and the computational and empirical experiments conducted.

The book will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and laypeople engaged with ideas in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and creativity.

Reviews

“This book enhances our understanding of the principles of problem solving in the epoch of AI and deserves to be widely read in this age of intelligent machines. The CreaCogs cognitive framework proposed here could be served as an applicable guide for graduate students and researchers in the sphere of Cognitive Science, AI, and Education.” (Zhihui Chen and Ruixing Ye, Science & Education, Vol. 31 (2), April, 2022)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Ana-Maria Oltețeanu

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cognition and the Creative Machine

  • Book Subtitle: Cognitive AI for Creative Problem Solving

  • Authors: Ana-Maria Oltețeanu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30322-8

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30321-1Published: 24 May 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30324-2Published: 26 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30322-8Published: 23 May 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 282

  • Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Creativity and Arts Education, Psychology, general

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Softcover Book USD 199.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 199.99
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