CC Workshop '05

Computational Creativity Workshop 2005 



University of Edinburgh, Scotland
School of Informatics



30th July

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Each talk for a full paper is 20 minutes. Talks for short papers are 10 minutes. There will be time for questions after each block of presentations. There is a slot for general discussion at the close of the day.

Mathematical and analogical creativity

8.45 - 9.05: "The Geometrician: a computer model for problem solving in the field of geometry" -- Edgar Raúl Acosta Villaseñor and Rafael Pérez y Pérez

9.05 - 9.25: "Seeing Things? Reasoning with Maps via Creative Imagination" -- Diarmuid O'Donoghue

9.25 - 9.45: "Structural Inversion as a Strategy of Creative Reconceptualization" -- Tony Veale

9.45 - 10.00: Questions and discussion

10.00 - 10.30: BREAK

Theoretical issues in computational creativity

10.30 - 10.50: "Experiments With Assessment of Creative Systems: An Application of Ritchie's Criteria" -- Francisco C. Pereira, Mateus Mendes, Pablo Gervás and Amílcar Cardoso

10.50 - 11.10: "Searching for Computational Creativity" -- Geraint Wiggins

11.10 - 11.30: "On transformational creativity" -- Graeme Ritchie

11.30 - 12.00: Questions and discussion

12.00 - 12.15: BREAK

Theoretical issues in computational creativity (cont)

12.15 - 12.25: "Search and notions of creativity" -- Colin Johnson (short)

12.25 - 12.35: "Notes on Defining Novelty for Computational Creativity" -- Loke Kar Seng (short) -- WITHDRAWN

12.35 - 12.45: "Fundamental Laws of Dynamics for Computational Creativity" -- Guihua Wen and Nigel R Shadbolt (short)

12.45 - 1.00: Questions and discussion

1.00 - 2.30: LUNCH

Creativity in the literary domain

2.30 - 2.50: "Automatic Generation of Literary Texts: Greek Mythology" -- Daniel Pérez Pinillos, Susana Fernández Arregui and Daniel Borrajo Millán

2.50 - 3.10: "Creativity Issues in Plot Generation" -- Federico Peinado and Pablo Gervás

3.10 - 3.30: "Story Planning as Exploratory Creativity: Techniques for Expanding the Narrative Search Space" -- Mark O. Riedl

3.30 - 3.40: "A model of believable-characters for a computer based storyteller" -- Ildikó Judit Pelczer and Rafael Pérez y Pérez (short)

3.40 - 4.00: Questions and discussion

4.00 - 4.15: BREAK

Creativity in the music domain

4.15 - 4.25: "Modelling Musical Behaviour in a Cultural-Evolutionary System" -- Oliver Bown and Geraint Wiggins (short)

4.25 - 4.35: "A Computational Memetics Approach to Music Information and Aesthetic Fitness" -- Tak-Shing Chan and Geraint Wiggins (short)

4.35 - 4.45: Questions and discussion

4.45 - 5.00: BREAK

Creativity in other human activies

5.00 - 5.20: "Creativity and the Disembodiment of Mind" -- Lorenzo Magnani

5.20 - 5.40: "Improvisational Directors and Creative Processes in Multi-Agent Systems" Márcia Cristina Moraes and Antônio Carlos da Rocha Costa

5.40 - 6.00: "Logical Forms in Wit" -- Daniel Winterstein and Sebastian Mhatre

6.00 - 6.20: Questions and discussion

6.20 - 7.00: General discussion

7.00: CLOSE