CfP: Computational Creativity 2010

["F. Amílcar Cardoso"]

Apologies for cross-posting.

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CALL FOR PAPERS
1st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY

Lisbon, Portugal, 7-9 January 2009

---> Submission deadline: 21 September

website: http://creative-systems.dei.uc.pt/icccx

Although it seems clear that creativity plays an important role in  
developing intelligent computational systems, it is less clear how to  
model, simulate, or evaluate creativity in such systems. In other  
words, it is often easier to recognize the presence and effect of  
creativity than to describe or prescribe it. The purpose of this  
conference is to facilitate the exchange of ideas on the topic of  
computational creativity in a cross-disciplinary setting.  It will  
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 as it relates to computational  
systems.  This focus on creativity in the context of computational  
systems has the potential for increasing innovation in existing fields  
of research as well as for defining new fields of study, including

1. Artificially Creative Systems: development of computational systems  
that produce or simulate creativity. These systems may be inspired by  
human creativity or by the possibilities of artificial systems beyond  
human capabilities.
2. Computational Models of Human Creativity: construction of cognitive  
models of human creativity that can be the basis for computational  
creativity.
3. Computational Systems for Supporting Creativity: production of user  
interfaces, interaction design, decision support, and data modeling  
techniques that lead to the development of intelligent assistants that  
support the user in being more creative.

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Topics
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Original contributions are solicited in all areas related to  
Computational Creativity, including but not limited to:

1. computational paradigms for understanding creativity, including  
heuristic search, analogical reasoning, and re-representation;
2. metrics, frameworks and formalizations for the evaluation of  
creativity in computational systems;
3. perspectives on creativity, including philosophy of computational  
creativity, models of human behavior, intelligent systems, and  
creativity-support tools;
4. the role of creativity in learning, innovation, improvisation, and  
other pursuits;
5. factors that enhance creativity, including conflict, diversity,  
knowledge, intuition, reward structures, and technologies;
6. social aspects of creativity, including the relationship between  
individual and social creativity, diffusion of ideas, collaboration  
and creativity, formation of creative teams, and simulating creativity  
in social settings;
7. specific applications to music, language and the arts, to  
architecture and design, to scientific discovery, to education and to  
entertainment;
8. detailed system descriptions of creative systems, including  
engineering difficulties faced, example sessions and artefacts  
produced, and applications of the system.

The conference will include traditional paper presentations, will  
showcase the application of computational creativity to the sciences,  
creative industries and arts, and will incorporate a "show and tell"  
session, which will be devoted to demonstrations of computational  
systems exhibiting behaviour which would be deemed creative in  
humans.  In addition the conference will provide a forum for  
identifying trends and opportunities for research on [computational]  
creativity and promising practices concerning the development of  
creative computational systems.


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Celebrating 10 years of Events on Computational Creativity
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This conference celebrates the 10th anniversary of a series of events  
which, since 1999, have grown from small satellite workshops into an  
international conference in its own right. During this period, these  
symposia and workshops have acted as a focus for an active research  
community, have been the forum for the
presentation of the newest results in computational creativity, and  
have given rise to special issues of journals.

List of past events:

IJWCC 2008, Madrid, Spain
AAAI 2008 Spring Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems, Stanford,  
CA, USA
IJWCC 2007, London, UK (first autonomous workshop)
IJWCC 2006, Riva del Garda, Italy, ECAI'2006
IJWCC 2005, Edinburgh, UK, IJCAI'2005
IJWCC 2004, Madrid, Spain, ECCBR'2004

The IJWCC series resulted from two previous streams of 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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Important Dates
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September 21, 2009   Submission deadline
October 30, 2009   Authors' Notification
November 22, 2009   Deadline for final camera-ready copies

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Submissions
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Please submit papers of up to 10 pages in Springer LNCS format.  
Submission details will be available on the conference website.


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Organising Committee
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General Chair:  Geraint A. Wiggins (Goldsmiths, University of London,  
UK)
PC Chair: Dan Ventura (Brigham Young University, UT, USA)
Local Chair: Amilcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Publicity Chair: Simon Colton (Imperial College London, UK)


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Local Organisation
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Amilcar Cardoso (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Luís Macedo (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - Finance
Paulo Pires (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - Sponsoring
Jorge Ávila (University of Coimbra, Portugal) - Secretariate


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Senior Program Committee
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Rafael Pérez y Pérez (UAM Cuajimalpa, Mexico)
Graeme Ritchie (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Alison Pease (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
Tony Veale (University College Dublin, Ireland)


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Program Committee
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John Barnden (University of Birmingham, UK)
Ana Boa-Ventura (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
David Brown (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Paul Brown (University of Sussex, UK)
Win Burleson (Arizona State University, USA)
John Collomosse (University of Bath, UK)
Anna Feldman (Montclair State University, USA)
Pablo Gervás (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
John Gero (George Mason University, USA)
Ashok Goel (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Paulo Gomes (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Kaz Grace (University of Sydney, Australia)
Fox Harrell (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Kyle Jennings (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Robert Keller (Harvey Mudd College, USA)
Penousal Machado (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Brian Magerko (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia, Italy)
Mary Lou Maher (National Science Foundation, USA)
Ramon López de Mántaras (IIIA-CSIC, Spain)
Ruli Manurung (University of Indonesia, Indonesia)
Jon McCormack (Monash University - Clayton, Australia)
David C. Moffat (Glasgow Caledonian University, UK)
Nick Montfort (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Diarmuid O'Donoghue (National University of Ireland, Ireland)
Francisco Câmara Pereira (University of Coimbra, Portugal)
Luis Pineda (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
Sarah Rauchas (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Joaquim Reis (ISCTE, Lisbon University Institute, Portugal)
Mark Riedl (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
Judy Robertson (Heriot-Watt University, UK)
Juan Romero (Universidade da Coruña, Spain)
Rob Saunders (University of Sydney, Australia)
Ricardo Sosa (Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)
Oliviero Stock (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica,  
Italy)
Ron Sun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
Carlo Strapparava (Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica,  
Italy)
Chris Thornton (University of Sussex, UK)


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ICCC 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)
Alison Pease (The University of Edinburgh, UK)
Rafael Pérez y Pérez (UAM Cuajimalpa, Mexico)
Graeme Ritchie (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Rob Saunders (University of Sydney, Australia)
Tony Veale (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Dan Ventura (Brigham Young University, UT, USA)
Geraint A. Wiggins (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)


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Sponsors
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APPIA - Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence
AECI - Ano Europeu para a Criatividade e Inovação
CISUC - Centre for Informatics and Systems of the University of Coimbra