A great event will be taking place in Mexico City at the end of April, one that is sure to help us connect computing and creativity in new ways. I’m helping to organize ICCC-11 and am planning to be there. I hope some of you will submit to this conference, and that I’ll see some of you there. -Nick
Update, October 2011:The 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity will be May 30 – June 1, 2012 in Dublin, Ireland; The deadline is January 16, 2012. ICCC-11 was great, and I and others are looking forward to ICCC-12! Hope to see you there. -Nick
#### 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity
##### April 27-29, 2011
Mexico City, Mexico
http://iccc11.cua.uam.mx
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 and meta-level reasoning, and re-representation;
2. metrics, frameworks and formalizations for the evaluation of creativity in computational systems, note: quasi-formal approaches that, for example, argue for recognition without definition or that define the absence of creativity may have interesting implications for computational creativity);
3. perspectives on computational creativity, including philosophy, models of cognition and human behavior, and intelligent systems;
4. development and assessment of computational creativity-support tools;
5. creativity-oriented computing in learning, teaching, and other aspects of education;
6. innovation, improvisation and related pursuits investigating the production of novel experiences and artifacts within a computational framework;
7. computational accounts of factors that enhance creativity, including emotion, surprise, unexpectedness), conflict, diversity, motivation, knowledge, intuition, reward structures, and technologies, e.g. modeling, simulation, human-in-the-loop, human/machine collaboration, etc.);
8. computational treatment of social aspects of creativity, including the relationship between individual and social creativity, diffusion of ideas, collaboration and creativity, formation of creative teams, and creativity in social settings, e.g. modeling, simulation, human-in-the-loop, human/machine collaboration, etc.);
9. specific applications, with a computational component) to music, language, narrative, poetry, the arts, architecture, entertainment, mathematical and scientific discovery, programming and/or design;
10. detailed system descriptions of creative systems, including engineering difficulties faced, example sessions and artifacts produced, and applications of the system;
11. domain-specific vs. generalized creativity — does the domain of study affect, the perception of) creativity? Are there general, computational) creative principles that can be applied across domains?
#### PAPERS
We invite papers that make a scientific contribution to the field of computational creativity and report work that involves computation, e.g., fully autonomous systems, modeling, support for human creativity, simulation, human/machine collaboration, etc.).
We welcome studies of human creativity that in some way propose a computational model for that creativity.
When papers report on creative computer systems, we particularly encourage them to discuss systems having general or at least multiple sorts of results, to detail the methods used to design and develop the system, or to include useful related theoretical discussion.
We invite papers that go beyond simply documenting interesting systems to describe advances in cognitive science, assessment methods, design methods, or other research areas.
#### DEMOS/ARTS SHOW AND TELL
We invite proposals for demonstrations of computational systems exhibiting behavior that would be deemed creative in humans and for the exhibition of artifacts created using computational means, either primarily or as support for a human creator).
More information will soon be available at: http://iccc11.cua.uam.mx
Or, send email to: iccc11@correo.cua.uam.mx
#### IMPORTANT DATES
December 13, 2010 — Submission deadline
February 14, 2011 — Authors’ Notification
March 14, 2011 — Deadline for final camera-ready copies
April 27-29, 2011 — ICCC in Mexico City
#### CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
General Chair:
Graeme Ritchie, University of Aberdeen
Program Chair:
Dan Ventura, Brigham Young University
Local Chair:
Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Cuajimalpa
Publicity Chair:
Nick Montfort, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Senior Program Committee:
- Pablo Gervás, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Fox Harrell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Mary Lou Maher, University of Sydney
- Alison Pease, University of Edinburgh
- Geraint Wiggins, Goldsmiths, University of London
Program Committee:
- John Barnden, University of Birmingham
- David Brown, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Win Burleson, Arizona State University
- F. Amílcar Cardoso, Universidade de Coimbra
- John Gero, George Mason University
- Ashok Goel, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Paulo Gomes, Universidade de Coimbra
- Kaz Grace, University of Sydney
- Kyle Jennings, University of California, Berkeley
- Robert Keller, Harvey Mudd College
- Brian Magerko, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Ramon López de Mántaras, IIIA-CSIC
- Ruli Manurung, University of Indonesia
- David C. Moffat, Glasgow Caledonian University
- Diarmuid O’Donoghue, National University of Ireland
- Sarah Rauchas, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Mark Riedl, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Juan Romero, Universidade da Coruña
- Rob Saunders, University of Sydney
- Ricardo Sosa, Tecnologico de Monterrey
- Carlo Strapparava, Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica
