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Wednesday May 30
8:00-8:45 Registration
8:45-9:00 Conference Opening and Introductions
9:00-10:00 Keynote Speaker
Mechanisms of Creative Cognition: Theory and Research
Professor Steven M. Smith
Department of Psychology
Texas A&M University
10:00-11:00 Session 1 Conceptual Blending (RP)
Chair: Simon Colton
From Conceptual “Mash-ups” to “Bad-ass” Blends: A Robust Computational Model of Conceptual Blending
Tony Veale [pdf]
Goal-Driven Conceptual Blending: A Computational Approach for Creativity
Boyang Li, Alexander Zook, Nicholas Davis and Mark Riedl [pdf]
11:00 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session 2 Analogy (RP)
Chair: Pablo Gervás
A Creative Analogy Machine: Results and Challenges
Diarmuid O’Donoghue and Mark T. Keane [pdf]
Automated Generation of Cross-Domain Analogies via Evolutionary Computation
Atilim Gunes Baydin, Ramon Lopez De Mantaras and Santiago Ontanon [pdf]
Cross-domain literature mining: Finding bridging concepts with CrossBee
Matjaz Jursic, Bojan Cestnik, Tanja Urbancic and Nada Lavrac [pdf]
13:00-14:00 Lunch (provided)
14:00-15:00 Session 3 Search (RP)
Chair: Nick Montfort
A closer look at creativity as search
Graeme Ritchie [pdf]
Creative Search Trajectories and their Implications
Kyle Jennings [pdf]
15:00-16:00 Coffee Break + Interactive Demonstrations
16:00-17:30 Session 4 Reflections (PP)
Chair: Dan Ventura
The Creative Computer as Romantic Hero? or, What Kind of Creative Personae do Computational Creativity Systems Exemplify?
Colin Johnson [pdf]
Whence is creativity?
Bipin Indurkhya [pdf]
Computational and Collective Creativity: Who’s Being Creative?
Mary Lou Maher [pdf]
Computers can’t jump? A quantitative approach for studying creative leaps
Lior Noy, Yuval Hart, Natalie Andrew, Omer Ramote, Avi Mayo and Uri Alon [pdf]
On the Notion of Framing in Computational Creativity
John Charnley, Alison Pease, and Simon Colton [pdf]
Small-Scale Creative Systems
Nick Montfort and Natalia Fedorova [pdf]
19:00 Social Event
Beer tasting at a very popular city-centre microbrew pub called the Porterhouse. Beer samples and finger food will be served starting at 7 PM.
Thursday May 31
9:00-11:00 Session 5 Generative Systems (RP)
Chair: Graeme Ritchie
Automatic Generation of Melodic Accompaniments for Lyrics
Kristine Monteith, Tony Martinez and Dan Ventura [pdf]
Full-FACE Poetry Generation
Simon Colton, Jacob Goodwin and Tony Veale [pdf]
Illustrating a Computer Generated Narrative
Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Nora Morales and Luis Rodríguez [pdf]
Generating a Complete Multipart Musical Composition from a Single Monophonic Melody with Functional Scaffolding
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, Marie E. Norton, Trevor A. Brindle, Zachary Merritt and Kenneth O. Stanley [pdf]
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session 6 Evaluation I (RP)
Chair: Alison Pease
Soup Over Bean of Pure Joy: Culinary Ruminations of an Artificial Chef
Richard Morris, Scott Burton, Paul Bodily and Dan Ventura [pdf]
Validation of Harmonic Progression Generator Using Classical Music
Adam Burnett, Evon Khor, Philippe Pasquier and Arne Eigenfeldt [pdf]
Automatic evaluation of punning riddle template extraction
Try Agustini and Ruli Manurung [pdf]
13:00-14:00 Lunch (provided)
14:00-14:45 Session 7 Evaluation II (PP)
Chair: Rafael Pérez y Pérez
Evaluating Musical Metacreation
Arne Eigenfeldt, Philippe Pasquier and Adam Burnett [pdf]
Critical issues in evaluating freely improvising interactive music systems
Adam Linson, Chris Dobbyn and Robin Laney [pdf]
Towards a New Evaluation Approach in Computational Narrative Systems
Jichen Zhu [pdf]
14:45-15:45 Coffee Break + Interactive Demonstrations
15:45-17:00 Session 8 Computers Being Creative (PP)
Chair: Kyle Jennings
A Creative Improvisational Companion Based on Idiomatic Harmonic Bricks
Robert Keller, August Toman-Yih, Alexandra Schofield and Zack Merritt [pdf]
Automatic Composition from Non-musical Inspiration Sources
Robert Smith, Aaron Dennis and Dan Ventura [pdf]
Creativity in Configuring Affective Agents for Interactive Storytelling
Stefan Rank, Steve Hoffmann, Hans-Georg Struck, Ulrike Spierling and Paolo Petta [pdf]
A Meme-Based Architecture for Modeling Creativity
Shinji Ogawa, Bipin Indurkhya and Aleksander Byrski [pdf]
Creatively Subverting Messages in Posters
Lorenzo Gatti, Marco Guerini, Charles Callaway, Oliviero Stock and Carlo Strapparava [pdf]
19:30 Conference Dinner
The conference dinner will be at 7:30 PM at Oliver St. John Gogarty’s, in Temple Bar. Gogarty’s is also a venue for traditional Irish music performance, which will enjoy after the dinner.
Friday June 1
9:00-11:00 Session 9 Cognition and Computation (RP)
Chair: Tony Veale
Crossing the Threshold Paradox: Creative Cognition in the Global Workspace
Geraint Wiggins [pdf]
Brainstorming in Solitude and Teams: The Role of Group Influence
Ricardo Sosa and John Gero [pdf]
Representational affordances and creativity in association-based systems
Kazjon Grace, John Gero and Rob Saunders [pdf]
How Did Humans Become So Creative? A Computational Approach
Liane Gabora and Steve Dipaola [pdf]
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Session 10 Creativity and Language (PP)
Chair: Geraint A. Wiggins
Corpus-Based Generation of Content and Form in Poetry
Jukka M. Toivanen, Hannu Toivonen, Alessandro Valitutti and Oskar Gross [pdf]
Weaving creativity into the Semantic Web: a language-processing approach
Anna Jordanous and Bill Keller [pdf]
12:00-13:00 Discussion
Moderator: Mary Lou Maher
13:00 Steering Committee Meeting
Interactive Demonstrations
Coming Together: Composition by Negotiation by Autonomous Multi-Agents
Arne Eigenfeldt [pdf]
Continuous Improvisation and Trading with Impro-Visor
Robert Keller [pdf]
Exploring Everyday Creative Responses to Social Discrimination with the Mimesis System
D. Fox Harrell, Chong-U Lim, Sonny Sidhu, Jia Zhang, Ayse Gursoy and Christine Yu [pdf]
Functional representations for music
James Mcdermott [pdf]
MaestroGenesis: Computer-Assisted Musical Accompaniment Generation
Paul A. Szerlip, Amy K. Hoover and Kenneth O. Stanley [pdf]
CrossBee: Cross-Context Bisociation Explorer
Matjaz Jursic, Bojan Cestnik, Tanja Urbancic and Nada Lavrac [pdf]
Computer Software for Measuring Creative Search
Kyle Jennings [pdf]
ANGELINA – Coevolution in Automated Game Design
Michael Cook and Simon Colton [pdf]
SynAPP – An online web application for exploring creativity
Gael Abadin, Bipin Indurkhya and Juan C. Burguillo-Rial [pdf]
Co-creating game content using an adaptive model of user taste
Antonios Liapis, Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius [pdf]