Calls

Call for Short Papers

Computational Creativity (or CC) is a discipline with its roots in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology, and Philosophy that explores the potential for computers to be autonomous creators in their own right. ICCC is an annual conference that welcomes papers on different aspects of CC, on systems that exhibit varying degrees of creative autonomy, on frameworks that offer greater clarity for thinking about machine (and human) creativity, on methodologies for building or evaluating CC systems, on approaches to teaching CC in schools and universities or to promoting societal uptake of CC as a field and as a technology, and so on.

This version of the call for papers is for short papers, the possible types of which are described below. All short paper types have the same length restriction (4 page sides), and may focus on any of the same themes or topics as regular (long) papers.

Short Paper Types

Short papers offer concise treatments of work and ideas that are better suited to this concentrated format. We anticipate submissions in the short paper category along any or all of the following lines:

Nuggets and Gems: Short papers on any topic of CC for which one might consider a long paper. In this case, the work should be succinct enough, or at an early enough stage, to warrant the short paper format. Note: During submission, any authors with accepted long or short papers will be able to choose whether they want to also give a demo of their system or prototype during the conference. A separate call for demos will be published intended for authors whose primary intention/interest in participating in ICCC is to demonstrate a CC system in action rather than presenting research results. These authors will still be required to submit a short paper, the evaluation of which will be based on the features of the system rather than its scientific contribution. The call for demos will be published soon.
Debate Sparks: The short paper format is ideal for provocations that get the community talking. Is there some aspect of CC that you feel deserves more attention from the community?
CC Translations: Researchers in other fields often do work that we in CC would see as related to our own. We invite those researchers to present that work at ICCC, via a Translations short paper. This will take the form of an extended abstract that summarizes your work in another field.
CC Bridges: Research communities often retreat into silos and fail to reach out beyond their own borders. A bridging short paper explicitly seeks to create bridges to another field, to foster inter-disciplinarity. Unlike a Translations paper, a Bridge is written by a CC researcher wishing to introduce new ideas from beyond our conventional horizons.
Late Breaking Results: The results of your work (empirical or system-related) may not have been ready for a long paper submission. Consider submitting that work now in a short-paper format.
Pilot Studies: Have you conducted an initial foray into a research topic that deserves attention? Plant a flag for your research with a short paper.
Grand Challenges: Do you have a proposal for a task that can bring large parts of the community together in a productive collaborative effort?
Meta-Perspectives: Does your experience of the CC community (such as our conferences, workshops, reviewing processes, etc.) move you to write an analysis of how we might do things differently and better?
Field Reports: Have you taken your CC research into the field, where practitioners and/or commercial partners have explored its uses first hand? Consider writing a short paper about your experiences.
Event Reports: Have you organized a CC-flavored event (a workshop, a tutorial, a seminar series, a postgraduate course, a public debate, an exhibition of CC outputs), or a related outreach activity? Consider writing a short paper on your experience and that of your audience.

Presentation

In order to ensure the highest level of quality, all submissions will be evaluated in terms of their scientific, technical, artistic and/or cultural contribution related to CC, and therefore there will be only one format for submission. However, the program committee will decide, for each submission, the most appropriate format for presentation: talk, poster, or system demonstration.

Submission Instructions

Papers should be no more than 4 page sides in length, including references.
The manuscript submission date given below is a hard deadline. Even though it has become customary in recent years, do not expect the submission deadline for ICCC 2021 to be extended.
You are required to make your papers anonymous to allow for double-blind review. Remove all references to your home institution(s), refer to your past work in the third person, etc.
To be considered, papers must be submitted as a PDF document formatted according to ICCC style (which is similar to AAAI and IJCAI formats). You can download the ICCC template here.
Papers must be submitted through the EasyChair platform at the ICCC 2021 site here.
Double submissions policy: The work submitted to ICCC should not be under review in another scientific conference or journal at the time of submission.
To be included in the proceedings, each paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors.

Important Dates

Submissions due: Monday, June 21, 2021
Acceptance notification: Friday, July 30, 2021
Camera-ready copies due: Friday, August 6, 2021
Conference: Tuesday, September 14 – Saturday, September 18, 2021

For queries about ICCC’21 specifically: iccc21@computationalcreativity.net

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Organizing Committee

General Chair: Rafael Pérez y Pérez
Local Chair: Wendy Aguilar
Program Chairs: Andrés Gómez de Silva Garza, Tony Veale