Calls

Short papers

Computational Creativity (or CC) is a discipline with its roots in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology and Philosophy that explores the potential for computers to be autonomous creators in their own right. Dealing with these topics, ICCC is an annual conference that welcomes papers on different aspects of CC; on systems that exhibit varying degrees of creative autonomy, on systems that act as creative partners for humans, on frameworks that offer greater clarity or computational felicity 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.

 

Important Dates

  • Deadline: April 28, 2024 April 30, 2024
  • Acceptance notification: May 12, 2024 May 19, 2024
  • Camera-ready copies due: May 31, 2024
  • Conference: June 17-21, 2024

The submission deadline for short papers is set after the long-paper notification, offering the possibility for authors to reformat their long-paper submissions for this call.
All deadlines given are 23:59 anywhere on Earth time.

 

Topics

The ICCC call for short papers invites research on the same topics as the main call. See Full Papers for more information.

In summary, new papers reflecting all computational approaches and perspectives on creativity are welcome, including e.g., symbolic approaches, neural and statistical approaches, hybrid approaches, big-data approaches, rule-based approaches, curated approaches, and so on. The onus is on authors to argue and/or explicitly demonstrate the relevance of their work to the topic of computational creativity.

Difference between long and short papers

Short papers are intended to share new directions and ideas, spark debate, and enrich the conference and program, without the same evaluation and rigor requirements of long papers. They are not merely long papers with fewer pages. To this end, different review criteria will be applied to long and short 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:

  • 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?
  • System Demonstrations: Submissions for the show-and-tell session can be described in a short paper.
  • 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 such work at ICCC, via a Translations short paper. This is submitted as an extended abstract that summarizes your work in another field.
  • Nuggets and Gems: short papers on any topic of CC for which one might consider a long paper. In this case, the work will be succinct enough, or at an early enough stage, to warrant the short paper format.
  • 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.
  • 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 interdisciplinarity. Unlike a Translations paper, a Bridge is written by a CC researcher wishing to introduce new ideas from beyond our conventional horizons.
  • 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: Do 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 and event 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. 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 related outreach activity? Consider writing a short paper on your experience and that of your audience.

 

Submission, Paper and Presentation Format

  • All short papers have the same length restriction (4 pages with one additional page allowed exclusively for references), and may focus on any of the same themes or topics as long papers.
  • Papers should be anonymized and submitted as a PDF document formatted according to ICCC style (which is similar to AAAI and IJCAI formats). You can download the updated ICCC’24 LaTeX template [here] and Word template [here].
  • Submissions must be done before the deadline through the EasyChair platform: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=iccc24.
  • To be included in the proceedings, each paper must be presented at the conference by one of the authors. This means that at least one author will have to register and participate on-site in the session in which their paper is presented, including the designated question-and-answer period.
  • In order to ensure the highest level of quality, all submissions will be peer-reviewed and evaluated in terms of their scientific, technical, artistic and/or cultural contribution, 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.

Note that all manuscripts may only be submitted to ICCC for review throughout the full duration of the review process. All papers should be in-scope and comply with scientific norms. The program chairs reserve the right to fast review papers that do not abide by these requirements.

All authors of accepted papers can opt to also show a demo of their system or prototype during the conference. You will be asked if you are interested in this option during the submission process.