Computational Creativity Workshop

First Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity

7th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE IN CASE-BASED REASONING
30th August through 2nd September 2004, Madrid, Spain

PLEASE NOTE!!!

1. INVITED SPEAKER: GERAINT WIGGINS

2. ECCBR WORKSHOP-ONLY REGISTRATIONS POSSIBLE

The Program Committee of the Computational Creativity workshop - CC'04 - invites submissions of technical and position papers for the workshop. The workshop will be held at Madrid, Spain, as part of the 7TH European Conference in Case-Based Reasoning (ECCBR'04). The publication of the proceedings of the Workshop is being negotiated with a publisher.

Workshop Objectives

This workshop will bring together researchers from AI, Cognitive Science and other related areas such as Psychology, Philosophy and Arts working on Computational Creativity, providing the opportunity to promote presentation and discussion of ongoing work in the area.

The workshop should encourage cross-fertilization between the various approaches, including the study of cognitive and computational models for Creativity, and the application of current AI techniques to the development of Creative Systems.

The workshop will provide a forum for identifying trends and opportunities for research on creativity and promising practices concerning the development of creative systems.

Topics

Original contributions are solicited in all areas related to
Creative Systems, including but not limited to:

- Computational models of creativity
- Cognitive Science models of creativity
- Machine Creativity
- Evaluation of Creativity
- Metaphor
- Conceptual Combination and Conceptual Integration
- Evolutionary art
- Emotion modelling
- Games and Creativity

Important Dates

May 17, 2004 Submission deadline EXTENDED
June 7, 2004 Notice of Acceptance
July 9, 2004 Deadline for final camera-ready copies

Workshop Format

Invited Talk by Dr. Geraint Wiggins, joint head of the Centre for Computational Creativity, City University London. The workshop will comprise invited talk, presentation and discussion sessions.
Each session will consist of paper presentations followed by a discussion panel. Time will be assigned for each paper presentation, including some time for discussion.

Submission Requirements for Contributions

Three categories of submissions are welcome: full papers, short papers and non-attending papers.

Full papers must be no longer than 12 pages in length, and are expected to address foundational issues and research proposals and reports, or to describe in detail current research on creative systems development and modelling.

Short papers must be no longer than 6 pages and are expected to describe ongoing work.

Non-attending papers can be up to 5 pages long, or as short as an abstract. They can cover any topic related to creativity, including position papers. We are interested in the ideas and opinions of researchers in all areas of creativity, regardless of whether they can attend the workshop. A summary of the submissions will be included in
the proceedings, and all submissions - subject to a sanity check - will be made available on the workshop web site after the workshop.

Please come to the workshop, but if you really can't make it, then please consider sending in a non-attendee paper [please clearly mark the paper with this information].

All papers MUST be submitted in Springer LNCS format, which is the format required for the final camera ready copy. Authors instructions along with LaTeX and Word macro files are available on the web at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

All Submissions will be made by electronic means, in postscript or PDF format. Fax, e-mail or snail mail submissions will not be accepted. Detailed instructions and a submission form will be available at the workshop web site.

Reviewing Process

Submissions will be judged on significance, originality, quality and clarity. Each paper will be cross-reviewed by at least two referees. Contributions will be subject to anonymous, blind peer review: reviewers will not be aware of the identities of the authors. This requires that authors exercise some care not to identify themselves in their contributions. Authors will receive feedback in the form of reviewers' comments.

Proceedings

Accepted contributions will be distributed by the organisation as workshop notes. Publication of extended versions of selected workshop papers in a Special Issue of a Journal is being negotiated. We fully intend to have a journal publication arising from this workshop, but we haven't agreed on details yet - sorry.

Program Committee

John Barnden, University of Birmingham, UK
Carlos Bento, University of Coimbra, Portugal
David Brown, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
Amílcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Simon Colton, Imperial College London, UK
John Gero, Key Centre of Design Computing and Cognition, Australia
Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Ashok Goel, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Paulo Gomes, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Juan Jesus Romero Cardalda, University of A Coruña, Spain
João Leite, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Penousal Machado, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia, Italy
Diarmuid O'Donoghue, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Marcus Pearce, City University London, UK
Alison Pease, University of Edinburgh, UK
Francisco C. Pereira, University of Coimbra, Portugal
Graeme Ritchie, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dean Simonton, University of California, Davis, USA
Oliviero Stock, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy
Carlo Strapparava,Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento, Italy
Michael Thomas, Birbeck, University of London, UK
Mark Turner, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Tony Veale, University College Dublin, Ireland
Gerhard Widmer, University of Viena, Austria
Geraint A. Wiggins, City University, London, UK