Scientific Programme

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ICCC programme

Workshops

WS01-Musical Metacreation (MuMe)
MuMe (I): MuMe at Work

Monday 25th June, 2018, 9:00h - 10:30h, Room 11.1 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Genetically Sonified Organisms: Environmental Listening/Sounding Agents
Doug Van Nort

Generating Albums with SampleRNN to Imitate Metal, Rock, and Punk Bands
Cj Carr and Zack Zukowski

What do these 5,599,881 parameters mean? An analysis of a specific LSTM music transcription model, starting with the 70,281 parameters of the softmax layer
Bob Sturm

MuMe (II): MuMe Networks

Monday 25th June, 2018, 11:00h - 13:00h, Room 11.1 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Sequence to Sequence Autoencoder for Learning Representations of Ornaments
Achyuth Samudrala

Real-valued parametric conditioning of an RNN for interactive sound synthesis
Lonce Wyse

Neurons: An Interactive Composition Using a Neural Network for Recognition of Playing Techniques
Artemi-Maria Gioti

An End to End Model for Automatic Music Generation: Combining Deep Raw and Symbolic Audio Networks
Rachel Manzelli, Vijay Thakkar, Ali Siahkamari and Brian Kulis

JazzGAN: Improvising with Generative Adversarial Networks Nicholas
Trieu and Robert Keller

MuMe (III): Musically-Aware Machines

Monday 25th June, 2018, 14:30h - 16:30h, Room 11.1 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Experiments on collective decision-making and musical metacreative performances with audience participation
Marcelo Gimenes

Navigating Outcomes of Rhythmic Anticipation
Jay Hardesty

Comparative Analysis of Key Inference Models for Musical Metacreation
Paul Bodily and Dan Ventura

From Motion to Musical Gesture: Experiments with Machine Learning in Computer-Aided Composition
Jean Bresson, Paul Best, Diemo Schwarz and Alireza Farhang

Back to the experiences: Empirically grounding the development of musical co-creative partners in co-experiences
Prashanth Ravikumar, Kevin McGee and Lonce Wyse

MuMe (IV): MetaMuMe

Monday 25th June, 2018, 17:00h - 19:00h, Room 11.1 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Algorithmic Audio Mashups and Synthetic Soundscapes Employing Evolvable Media Repositories
Marinos Koutsomichalis and Björn Gambäck

Music Style Transfer: A Position Paper
Gus G. Xia and Shuqi Dai

Musical Metacreation: Past, Present, and Future
Paul Bodily and Dan Ventura


WS02-Digital Humanities and Computational Creativity (DHCC)
DHCC (I)

Monday 25th June, 2018, 9:40h - 10:30h, Room 11.2 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Neuronal study of human creativity as a basis for the Digital Humanities
Luis de Garrido y Juan Pavón

A Platform Prototype for Social Measurement of Creativity
Carlos Guillem-Aldave, Manuel Sáez-Ortega y Rafael Molina-Carmona

DHCC (II)

Monday 25th June, 2018, 11:00h - 12:40h, Room 11.2 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Dinámica expositiva en Andalucía: un estudio de caso comparativo para una diagnosis preliminar
Bárbara Romero Ferrón

Static code analysis to measure the quality of musical scores
Javier Merchán Sánchez-Jara, Tatiana Person, Almudena Mangas-Vega, Iván Ruiz-Rube, Juan Manuel Dodero y José Miguel Mota

Design of Grief Support Systems: Opportunities for Computational Creativity
Lee Cheatley, Wendy Moncur y Alison Pease

Machine Learning Approach towards Automatic Future Forecasting Inspired by Creative Futurist
Akihito Sudo, Keita Tokuda, Naoya Fujiwara, Takahiro Yabe y Yoshinori Tone

DHCC: Round table

Monday 25th June, 2018, 12:40h - 13:00h, Room 11.2 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)


Tutorials

The Shape of Strings to Come: A Hands-on Exploration of Grammar-based Approaches to Creative Generation
SESSION I

Monday 25th June, 2018, 14:30h - 16:30h, Room 11.2 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Tony Veale, University College Dublin

SESSION II

Monday 25th June, 2018, 17:00h - 19:00h, Room 11.2 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Tony Veale, University College Dublin

Opening

Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 14:30 - 15:00h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)


Main Track

Session I: CC Across Domains

Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 15:30h - 17:00h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)

Industry Panel

Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 17:30h - 19:30h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)

Emily Short, Spirit AI
Alex Champandard, Creative.AI
Katerina Kosta, Jukedeck
Andy Elmsley, Melodrive
CC Books Launch

Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 19:30h - 20:00h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)


Workshops

WS01-Musical Metacreation (MuMe)
MuMe (V): MuMe Over

Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 9:00h - 10:30h, Room 11.1 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Towards an Automatic Detection of Rhetorical Patterns in the Renaissance Polyphonic Music
Víctor Padilla, Manuel Tizón, Francisco Gómez, Manuel Espigares and Edith Alonso

Informal Demos

MuMe (VI): Panel discussion with the MUME concert artists

Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 11:00h - 12:40h, Room 11.1 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

MuMe: Mume Outro and discussion on the Future of MUME

Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 12:40h - 13:00h, Room 11.1 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)


Doctoral Consortium (DC)

8-minute talks and Q+A and feedback

Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 9:00h - 9:50h, Room 11.2 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Generation of Concept-Representative Symbols
João Cunha

Character Focused Narrative Models for Computational Storytelling
Leonid Berov

Language and Creativity in Computer-Generated Literary Texts
Mariana Chinellato Ferreira

Embodied Story-Telling: Augmenting Symbolic Narrative Generation with embodied gesture and emotion in a robotic agent
Philipp Wicke

Discussion

Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 10:00h - 10:30h, Room 11.2 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

3-minute lightning talks with Q+A and feedback

Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 11:00h - 11:30h, Room 11.2 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Automated Game Content Adaptation Using Social Media Data
Rob Homewood

The Interaction of Functional and Aesthetic Dimensions in Auditory Displays
Mariana Seiça

Writing creative nonfiction in the age of machine learning
Paul White

Novel User Oriented Bottom-up Approaches for Graphic Design
Sergio Rebelo

Computational Generation of Cross-Modal Associations for Design Languages
Ana Rodrigues

Panel discussion - what to do with a PhD in CC?

Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 11:30h - 12:45h, Room 11.2 (Edificio Multiusos I+D+i)

Panelists
Maya Ackerman, Alison Pease, Rafael Perez y Perez, Dan Ventura

Main Track

Session II: Building CC systems

Wednesday 27th June, 2018, 11:00h - 13:00h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)

The Computational Creativity Continuum
Rafael Pérez Y Pérez

Investigating and Automating the Creative Act of Software Engineering: A Position Paper
Simon Colton, Edward J. Powley and Michael Cook

Data-driven Design: A Case for Maximalist Game Design
Gabriella A. B. Barros, Czerny Green Michael, Antonios Liapis and Julian Togelius

Redesigning Computationally Creative Systems For Continuous Creation
Michael Cook and Simon Colton

Technology and Arts show and tell/Lightning talks

Wednesday 27th June, 2018, 14:30h - 15:00h, Main Hall (Edificio I+D+i)

[SHOW AND TELL] eRebuild Level Creator
Danial Smith

Towards Goal-aware Collaboration in Artistic Agent Societies
Otto Hantula and Simo Linkola

A Parameter-Space Design Methodology for Casual Creators
Simon Colton, Mark J. Nelson, Edward J. Powley, Swen Gaudl, Rob Saunders, Blanca Perez Ferrer, Peter Ivey and Michael Cook

Explainability: An Aesthetic for Aesthetics in Computational Creative Systems
Paul Bodily and Dan Ventura

An Evaluation of the Impact of Constraints on the Perceived Creativity of Narrative Generating Software
Lewis Mckeown and Anna Jordanous

INES: A reconstruction of the Charade storytelling system using the Afanasyev Framework
Eugenio Concepcion, Pablo Gervás and Gonzalo Mendez

Targeted Storyfying: Creating Stories About Particular Events
Pablo Gervás

An HBPL-based Approach to the Creation of Six-word Stories
Brad Spendlove, Nathan Zabriskie and Dan Ventura

Under the Super-Suit: What Superheroes Can Reveal About Inherited properties in Conceptual Blending
Maria Hedblom, Rafael Peñaloza, Giancarlo Guizzardi and Oliver Kutz

Interview with the Robot: Question-Guided Collaboration in a Storytelling System
Philipp Wicke and Tony Veale

​​Performative Body Mapping for Designing Expressive Robots
Rob Saunders and Petra Gemeinboeck

An HBPL-based Approach to the Creation of Six-word Stories
Brad Spendlove, Nathan Zabriskie and Dan Ventura

Poster session

Wednesday 27th June, 2018, 15:00h - 16:30h, Main Hall (Edificio I+D+i)

Session III: Narrative and Poetry

Wednesday 27th June, 2018, 17:00h - 19:00h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)

Main Track

Session IV: Collaboration

Thursday 28th June, 2018, 11:00h - 13:00h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)

Neighbouring Communities: Interaction, Lessons and Opportunities
Michael Cook and Simon Colton

Co-Creative Conceptual Art
Margareta Ackerman, James Morgan and Christopher Cassion

Evaluating Creativity in Computational Co-Creative Systems
Pegah Karimi, Kazjon Grace, Mary Lou Maher and Nicholas Davis

Thoughtful Surprise Generation as a Computational Creativity Challenge
Alexandra Coman, Erik Mueller and Margaret Mayer

Session V: Cross-domain and Discovery

Thursday 28th June, 2018, 14:30h - 16:30h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)

Deep Learning-based Poetry Generation Given Visual Input
Malte Loller-Andersen and Björn Gambäck

The Image Artist: Computer Generated Art Based on Musical Input
Viktor Zoric and Björn Gambäck

Generalization across Contexts in Unsupervised Computational Creativity
Debarun Bhattacharjya, Dharmashankar Subramanian and Lav Varshney

Surprise Walks: Encouraging users towards novel concepts with sequential suggestions​
Kazjon Grace, Mary Lou Maher, Nick Davis and Omar Eltayeby.

Session VI: Ethics and Authenticity

Thursday 28th June, 2018, 17:00h - 18:30h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)

Main Track

Session VII: Theory

Friday 29th June, 2018, 9:00h - 10:30h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)

Creative Invention Benchmark
Matthew Guzdial, Nicholas Liao, Vishwa Shah and Mark Riedl

Exploring the Engagement and Reflection Model with the Creative Systems Framework​
Juan Alvarado and Geraint A. Wiggins

Computational Creativity for Valid Rube Goldberg Machines
Xiou Ge, Jinjun Xiong and Lav Varshney

Session VII: Communication

Friday 29th June, 2018, 11:00h - 13:00h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)

Community Meeting

Friday 29th June, 2018, 13:00h - 14:00h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)

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