CfP: Computational Creativity

[F. Amílcar Cardoso]

Apologies for cross-posting.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
4th INTERNATIONAL JOINT WORKSHOP ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY

Goldsmiths' College, University of London
London, UK, 17-19 June 2007

---> Submission deadline: 17 March

website: http://doc.gold.ac.uk/isms/CC07/

The Program Committee of the 4th International Joint Workshop on
Computational Creativity invites submissions of technical and
position papers.  The workshop will be held at Goldsmiths,
University of London, UK, on 17-19 June 2007.


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Workshop Objectives
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The aim of the workshop is to facilitate the exchange of ideas on
the topic of computational creativity. We aim to bring together
people from AI, Cognitive Science and related areas such as
Psychology, Philosophy and the Arts who research questions related
to the notion of creativity with respect to computers. The workshop
will address issues such as how we assess creativity in computers,
how computers can be used to enhance human creativity, and how we
can write creative software. We aim for papers on various frameworks
for computational creativity to be presented at the workshop, and
for the applications of computational creativity to the sciences,
creative industries and arts to be showcased. The workshop will
provide a forum for identifying trends and opportunities for research
on creativity and promising practices concerning the development of
creative systems. In addition, we will organise a "show and tell"
session, which will be devoted to demonstrations of systems exhibiting
behaviour which would be deemed creative in humans.

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Topics
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Original contributions are solicited in all areas related to Creative
Systems, including but not limited to:
- Computational models of creativity
- Cognitive models of creativity
- Metrics, frameworks and formalizations for the evaluation of
	creativity in computational systems
- Computational tools for supporting creativity
- Specific applications to music, language and the arts, to
	architecture and design, to scientific discovery, to education
	and to entertainment
- Philosophical discussions of computational creativity
- Detailed system descriptions of creative systems, including
	engineering difficulties faced, example sessions and artefacts
	produced, and applications of the system

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Important Dates
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March 17, 2007   Submission deadline
April 21, 2007   Authors' Notification
May   19, 2007   Deadline for final camera-ready copies

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Submission Requirements
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Authors should produce their papers according to the LaTeX format
which will be posted shortly on the workshop web site. Papers should
be no longer than eight pages; longer papers will not be reviewed. All
submissions will be reviewed in terms of quality, impact and relevance
to the area of computational creativity.

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.

All Submissions will be made by electronic means, in postscript or PDF
format. Detailed instructions about the submission procedure will be
available on the workshop web site soon.

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Show and tell session
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The fact that we now have implemented systems which exhibit creative
behaviour and produce artefacts of value sets the computational  
creativity
field apart from other domains which investigate notions of  
creativity. To
emphasise this, we plan to hold a "show and tell" session, where
implemented systems are demonstrated. There will be no set format,  
but we
hope each presentation will cover topics such as: (a) implementation
details, (b) how to run the system, (c) how to use and interpret the
artefacts created by the system, (d) engineering innovations which have
been required in order to implement the system. For each system, we will
encourage the presenter to demonstrate the program at work and to supply
a 'gallery' of the most appealing artefacts generated over the years by
the system.

Participation in the show and tell session is at the discretion of the
workshop organisers. Please use the submission procedure that soon will
be available on the workshop web site if you would like to show your
system and tell us about it at the event.

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Previous events
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This workshop is the first completely autonomous edition of the series
of International Joint Workshops on Computational Creativity that were
held in association with other major events:

IJWCC 2004, Madrid, Spain, ECCBR'2004
IJWCC 2005, Edinburgh, UK, IJCAI'2005
IJWCC 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy, ECAI'2006
This joint series results from two previous streams of events that
have, since 1997, solidified and added rigour to the computational
treatment of creative processes. These events have been symposia and
workshops associated with AISB 99, AISB 00, ICCBR 01, AISB 01, ECAI 02,
AISB 02, IJCAI 03, AISB 03 and LREC 04.

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Workshop Chairs
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Amilcar Cardoso
Center for Informatics and Systems (CISUC)
University of Coimbra, Portugal
http://www.dei.uc.pt/~amilcar

Geraint A. Wiggins
Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture
Goldsmiths' College, University of London, UK
http://www.doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas02gw/
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Local Organising Committee
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Oliver Bown
Marcus T. Pearce
Geraint A. Wiggins

Intelligent Sound and Music Systems Group
Centre for Cognition, Computation & Culture
Department of Computing
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW, United Kingdom

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Program Committee (to be extended)
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John Barnden (University of Birmingham, UK)
Oliver Bown (Goldsmiths College, London, UK)
David Brown (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Simon Colton (Imperial College London, UK)
John Collomosse (University of Bath, UK)
Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Paulo Gomes (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Robert Keller (Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, California, USA)
João Leite (New University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Jesús López (University of Southern Queensland, Australia)
Penousal Machado (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia, Italy)
Ramon López de Màntaras (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
David C. Moffat (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
Diarmuid O'Donoghue (National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland)
Marcus Pearce (Goldsmiths College, London, UK)
Alison Pease (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Francisco C. Pereira (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Sarah Rauchas (Goldsmiths College, London, UK)
Graeme Ritchie(University of Aberdeen, UK)
Rob Saunders (University of Sydney, Australia)
Oliviero Stock (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica,  
Trento, Italy)
Tony Veale (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Gerhard Widmer (University of Linz, Austria)

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IJWCC Steering Committee
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Amilcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Simon Colton (Imperial College London, UK)
Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Tony Veale (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Geraint A. Wiggins (Goldsmiths College, London, UK)