Australasian Workshop on Computational Creativity

to be held in conjunction with

the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI'09) 

Call For Papers

 
Introduction

Topics

Important Dates

Accepted Papers

Workshop Chairs

Program Committee

Paper Submission

 

 Introduction

Creativity refers to our mental capabilities of generating new concepts, having its significance by sitting in the centre of human intelligence. It has been attracting researchers from Art, Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy and Neuroscience. Recently, there is an emerging trend to apply our knowledge about human creative thinking to developing computational models emulating this process.

The aim of this workshop is to organise a forum for cultivating multidisciplinary pursuits of computational creativity. The workshop will bring together researchers from cognitive science, neuroscience and artificial intelligence to communicate ideas on theoretic and computational constructs of creativity. The workshop will discuss cognitive mechanisms and their underpinning biological explanations for creativity thinking, how one can use computers to model these mental processes, how one can develop effective software to address emergence and usefulness.

 

Topics of Interest

Topics include (but are not limited to):

bullet cognitive mechanism of human creativity, analogy;
bullet neuron processes in relation to creative thinking;
bullet computational metrics for creativity in terms of novelty, emergence and usefulness;
bullet computational, cognitive models for creativity;
bullet philosophical discussion on computational creativity;
bullet design and implementation constraints of creativity agents.
bullet automated scientific knowledge discovery;
bullet combinatorial creativity;
bullet machine learning for computational creativity;
bullet experimental studies for computational creativity;
bullet knowledge representation for computational creativity;
bullet evolving creativity;
bullet computational abduction;
bullet applications to architectural and engineering design, scientific knowledge discovery, E-learning

 

Important Dates

Due date for papers submission: 15 October, 2009
Notification of paper acceptance to authors: 5 November, 2009
Camera-ready of accepted papers: 15 November, 2009
Workshop day: 1 December, 2009

Accepted Papers (TBA)



Workshop Chairs 

Wei Peng

RMIT, Australia

Mohamed Medhat Gaber

Monash Univesisty, Australia

Program Committee

Ian Bogost, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Amílcar Cardoso, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Simon Colton, Imperial College, London, UK

Arne Dietrich, American University of Beirut, Lebanon

Lan Ding, CSIRO, Australia

Liane Gabora, University of British Columbia, Canada

John Gero, George Mason University, USA

Koichi Hori, University of Tokyo, Japan

Kyle Jennings, University of California—Berkeley, USA

Carlos León, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

Kathryn Merrick, University of New South Wales, Australia

Mark Riedl, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Ricardo Sosa, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México

Tony Veale ,University College Dublin, Ireland

Dan Ventura, Brigham Young University, USA

Geraint A. Wiggins, Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK

Paper Submission

Interested authors can submit their papers to awcc09@gmail.com by the due date. Papers should be formatted according to Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence style. Templates available at: Springer website. The paper should not exceed 10 pages.

Post-workshop Publication

Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to be included in an edited book by the workshop co-chairs. The book will be published by Pan Stanford Publishing (pending final approval)
     

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