Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity
Aims and Scope
The Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC), also referred to as ICCC Proceedings, provide a citable, archival record of peer-reviewed research presented at the annual International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC). These support ACC’s mission to promote research and international collaboration on the study of human and machine creativity using computational methods.
ISSN and Indexes
The ICCC Proceedings are published under the following identifiers and indexed in the following indexes:
Editions
Since 2010, ACC has published the following editions of the Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity:
- ICCC’25 – Campinas, Brazil
- ICCC’24 – Jönköping, Sweden
- ICCC’23 – Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- ICCC’22 – Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
- ICCC’21 – Mexico City, Mexico
- ICCC’20 – Coimbra, Portugal
- ICCC’19 – Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
- ICCC’18 – Salamanca, Spain
- ICCC’17 – Atlanta, Georgia, USA
- ICCC’16 – Paris, France
- ICCC’15 – Park City, Utah, USA
- ICCC’14 – Ljubljana, Slovenia
- ICCC’13 – Sydney, Australia
- ICCC’12 – Dublin, Ireland
- ICCC’11 – Mexico City, México
- ICCC’10 – Lisbon, Portugal
Ownership and Management
The ICCC Proceedings are published, owned, and managed by the Association for Computational Creativity.
Readership
The ICCC Proceedings target a wide, pluridisciplinary audience interested in computational creativity, including:
- Academic researchers and practitioners in technological fields such as AI (e.g., Creative AI, GenAI, AI4Arts, Music AI), machine learning, cognitive science, HCI, digital art, and related fields.
- Artists, designers, creative professionals, educators, and policymakers interested in creativity-related computational systems, tools, and societal impacts.
- Philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists intrigued and/or working on topics at the intersections of creativity, cognition, and computation, exploring foundational questions about machine/human nature and creativity.
Editorial Team and Contact Information
Each edition of the ICCC Proceedings has a different editorial team associated with the conference organization committee, usually including members of the Program Chairs. The main contact is ACC’s Publications Chair: publications@computationalcreativity.net.
Acceptance and Review
The ICCC Proceedings only include work that has been presented at the ICCC, including all accepted papers from the main track: full papers and short papers. Contributions from keynotes, workshops, tutorials, and other sub-events, even when peer-reviewed, are not included in the main proceedings and sometimes have their own publication process. The Program Chairs of each ICCC edition manage the peer-review process and define additional contribution types. Nevertheless, the set of criteria for accepting contributions is well-defined and has remained stable across editions, being bound by ACC’s constitutional goals, the conference policies and values and governed by ACC’s publication/ethics statements. Details and Program Committee for each edition are available on the respective conference webpage, all listed [here] (see as an example full paper call and reviewer best practices for ICCC’25).
Publication Ethics and Misconduct Procedures
ACC and ICCC uphold the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and ethical conduct in line with COPE and ICMJE guidelines and recommendations. All ACC publications, including ICCC Proceedings, adhere to the ACC Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement, which details: i) responsibilities for authors, editors and reviewers; ii) policies on authorship and contributorship; iii) policies on conflicts of interest / competing interests, iv) policies on data sharing and reproducibility; v) ethical oversight; vi) policy on intellectual property the publication decisions; vii) post-publication discussions and corrections; viii) acceptance decision and handling complaints and appeals; ix) post-publishing options; x) misconduct reporting. ICCC also follows ICCC Policies and Declaration of Values, promoting double-blind review, fairness, diversity, and a harassment-free environment.
Copyright
All contents of these proceedings are published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) license, which allows unrestricted use, download, copy, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, without needing explicit permission, provided the original work is properly cited. Authors retain rights to their individual contributions for personal or educational use, but grant ACC non-exclusive rights to distribute, archive, and present the work in perpetuity.
Publication Fees
No fees apply for paper processing or publication in the ICCC Proceedings. However, to be included in the Proceedings, a paper needs to be presented at the conference and at least one of its authors needs to register for the event. To account for local costs, attendance fees vary by conference edition, all listed [here] (e.g. see as an example the registration fees for ICCC’25).
Open Access
ICCC Proceedings is considered a Diamond/Platinum Open Access (OA) journal, i.e., with no fees to authors for publication and no subscription/paywall fees to readers. Despite no publication fee, conference attendance is necessary for publication which entails fees but there’s no additional price for authors. The listing of all proceedings is available [here], and a listing of all individual papers included in every edition of these proceedings is available [here].
Archiving
ICCC Proceedings is currently finding a solution for electronic backup and preservation of access of their issues, but still has no such solution.
Revenue Sources and Advertising Policy
The ICCC Proceedings are published by ACC, a non-profit association sustained solely through ICCC conference registration fees. Occasional edition-specific sponsorships can be requested to other intitutions or companies for specific purposes, such as student travel grants or paper awards (acknowledged in the proceedings). No author publication fees, subscriptions, paid access, advertising, or other revenue sources. Publishing fees or waivers never influence editorial decisions.
Promotion Practices
Attention and awareness of ICCC calls and Proceedings spreads organically through Computational Creativity and adjacent communities, beginning with the general Call for Papers (CfP) on ICCC’s website and shared across different platforms: ACC’s website, academic networks like DBLP or other regular CfP databases, CC’s Discord server, ACC’s mailing lists, social media (LinkedIn, X, Instagram, Facebook), the Computational Creativity Google Group, and related communities. ACC does not engage in aggressive or targeted email/ad campaigns.