* Note that this is a tentative program, therefore it can suffer possible changes in sessions, times and rooms.
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)
Conceptualising Computational Creativity: Towards automated historiography of a research field
Vid Podpecan, Senja Pollak, Nada Lavrač and Geraint Wiggins
Is Computational Creativity Domain-General?
Roisin Loughran and Michael O'Neill
A Cross-Domain Analytic Evaluation Methodology for Style Imitation
Jeffrey Ens and Philippe Pasquier
Industry Panel
Tuesday 26th June, 2018, 17:30h - 19:30h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)
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)
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)
[SHOW AND TELL] Steering Circularity Between Musical Anticipation and Repetition
Jay Hardesty
Computationally Generating Images for Music Albums
Miguel Cruz, Paul Hardman and João Miguel Cunha
Computational Creative Experiments in the Development of Visual Identities
Sérgio Rebelo, João Bicker and Penousal Machado
A Set of Procedures Attempting at the Generation of Verbal Humor in Portuguese
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira and Ricardo Rodrigues
Generation of Aesthetic Emotions guided by Perceptual Features
Ana Rodrigues, Amílcar Cardoso and Penousal Machado
Integrating a ETHNO-MUSIC and a Tra-la-Lyrics for Composing Popular Spanish Songs
María Navarro and Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira
MIDI Database and Representation Manager for Deep Learning
Jeffrey Ens and Philippe Pasquier
Session III: Narrative and Poetry
Wednesday 27th June, 2018, 17:00h - 19:00h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)
Harnessing NLG to Create Finnish Poetry Automatically
Mika Hämäläinen
Live, Die, Evaluate, Repeat: Do-Over Simulation in the Generation of Coherent Episodic Stories
Stefan Riegl and Tony Veale
An Evaluation of Perceived Personality in Fictional Characters Generated by Affective Simulation
Leonid Berov and Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
Appointment in Samarra: Pre-destination and Bi-camerality in Lightweight Story-Telling Systems
Tony Veale
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)
Issues of Authenticity in Autonomously Creative Systems
Simon Colton, Alison Pease and Rob Saunders.
Ethics as Aesthetic: A Computational Creativity Approach to Ethical Behavior
Dan Ventura and Darin Gates
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)
BISLON: BISociative SLOgaN generation based on stylistic literary devices
Andraž Repar, Matej Martinc, Martin Znidarsic and Senja Pollak
Talent, Skill and Support. A Method for Automatic Creation of Slogans
Khalid Alnajjar, Hadaytullah Hadaytullah and Hannu Toivonen
How Shell and Horn make a Unicorn: Experimenting with Visual Blending in Emoji
João Cunha, Pedro Martins and Penousal Machado
Community Meeting
Friday 29th June, 2018, 13:00h - 14:00h, Salón de Actos (Colegio Fonseca)
