The AAAI Symposium on Creative Intelligent Systems will focus on a discussion of research issues and directions. In order to achieve this, we want to reduce the focus on individual research projects and papers and focus on general topics. The symposium is organized into 4 topic sessions and 1 final discussion session.
During each topic session, 4 papers will be presented, each with a time limit of 10 minutes. The purpose of these presentations is to provide a catalyst for a 40 minute open discussion on research issues and general topics raised during the presentations. For all papers, specific details of the work will be addressed during the appropriate poster session.
The final morning will start with a synthesizing presentation on each of the four topics, and finish with a discussion of the major issues across all topics, synergies, and future directions.
Wednesday, March 26
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- 9:00 Opening remarks and business
- 9:15 Topic 1: Artificial Intelligence and Creative Processes
- Chair: Andy Barto
- Rapporteur: Larry Leifer
- catalyst 1: Debasis Mitra
- catalyst 2: Simon Colton
- catalyst 3: Mary Lou Maher, Kathryn Merrick and Rob Saunders
- catalyst 4: Dan Ventura
- Rapporteur: Larry Leifer
- 10:45 Break
- 11:15 Topic 2: Simulating Creativity
- Chair: John Gero
- Rapporteur: Paulo Urbano
- catalyst 5: Kyle Jennings
- catalyst 6: Matthew Hockenberry and Ernesto Arroyo
- catalyst 7: Ricardo Sosa and John Gero
- catalyst 8: Stellan Ohlsson
- Rapporteur: Paulo Urbano
- 12:45 Lunch
- 2:00 Posters
- Innovation Systems are Self-organizing Complex Adaptive Systems
- Levent Yilmaz
- TORQUE's Imagination
- Ashok Goel
- Achieving Creative Behavior Using Curious Learning Agents
- Mary Maher, Kathryn Merrick and Rob Saunders
- How is it Possible to Create a New Idea?
- Stellan Ohlsson
- Intrinsically Motivated Creative Search
- Chris Vigorito and Andrew Barto
- Adjusting the Novelty Thermostat: Courting Creative Success Through Judicious Randomness
- Kyle Jennings
- Computational Creativity: Three Generations of Research and Beyond
- Debasis Mitra
- Swarm Exquisite-Corpses Games
- Paulo Urbano
- Human Tended Gardens of Evolutionary Design
- Matthew Hockenberry and Ernesto Arroyo
- Creative Social Systems
- Ricardo Sosa and John Gero
- Ambiguity in the Communication and Development of New Ideas
- Tamara Carleton and Larry Leifer
- Subsymbolic Re-representation to Facilitate Learning Transfer
- Dan Ventura
- Creativity versus the Perception of Creativity in Computational Systems
- Simon Colton
- 4:00 Break
- 4:30 Demonstrations
- 6:00 Reception
- 9:00 Opening remarks and business
Thursday, March 27
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- 9:00 Opening remarks and business
- 9:15 Topic 3: Creativity and Language/Linguistics
- Chair: Fox Harrell
- Rapporteur: Alessandro Valitutti
- catalyst 9: John Barnden
- catalyst 10: Tony Veale and Yanfen Hao
- catalyst 11: R. Michael Young
- catalyst 12: Rob Saunders and Kazjon Grace
- Rapporteur: Alessandro Valitutti
- 10:45 Break
- 11:15 Topic 4: Creativity Environments
- Chair: Panos Papalambros
- Rapporteur: Reid Swanson
- catalyst 13: Klara Nahrstedt, Ruzena Bajcsy, Lisa Wymore, Renata Sheppard and Katherine Mezur
- catalyst 14: Matthew Turk, Tobias Hollerer, Stefan Muller Arisona and JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
- catalyst 15: Adam Smith, Mario Romero, Zachary Pousman and Michael Mateas
- catalyst 16: Jarod Kelly and Panos Papalambros
- Rapporteur: Reid Swanson
- 12:45 Lunch
- 2:00 Posters
- Computational Creativity in Narrative Generation: Utility and Novelty Based on Models of Story Comprehension
- R. Michael Young
- Computational Model of Human Creativity in Dance Choreography
- Klara Nahrstedt, Ruzena Bajcsy, Lisa Wymore, Renata Sheppard and Katherine Mezur
- Generating and Understanding Creative Comparisons
- Tony Veale
- Tableau Machine, A Creative Alien Presence
- Adam Smith, Zachary Pousman, Mario Romero and Michael Mateas
- Textual Affect Sensing for Computational Advertising
- Alessandro Valitutti, Carlo Strapparava and Oliviero Stock
- Unparalleled Creativity in Metaphor
- John Barnden
- Interactive Genetic Algorithms for use as Creativity Enhancement Tools
- Jarod Kelly, Colleen Seifert and Panos Papalambros
- Towards a Computational Model of Creative Cultures
- Rob Saunders and Kaz Grace
- Integrating Syntactic Structure Into Computational Musical Applications Using Unsupervised Parsing Techniques
- Reid Swanson, Andrew Gordon and Elaine Chew
- Interactive Drama Authoring with Plot and Character: An Intelligent System that Fosters Creativity
- Mei Si, Stacy Marsella and Mark Riedl
- Creative Collaborative Exploration in Multiple Environments
- Matthew Turk, Tobias Hollerer and Stefan Arisona
- Daydreaming with Intention: Scalable Blending-Based Imagining and Agency in Generative Interactive Narrative
- Jichen Zhu and D. Fox Harrell
- 4:00 Break
- 4:30 Keynote -- Sensitivity Analysis: Unexpected Outcomes in Art and Engineering
- Ken Goldberg, University of California, Berkeley
- Contemporary art and engineering research are both at their best when things don't turn out as planned. I'll present selected examples based on artworks developed with students and other collaborators involving robots and networks over the past 20 years. These projects set out to investigate intersections of technology and nature, such as the Telegarden, a robot installation that allowed online participants to remotely tend a living garden; Ballet Mori, a classical dance performed to sounds triggered by live seismic data; and Demonstrate, where an ultra high-resolution video camera raised eyebrows at the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement. Every project led to unexpected twists and complications... I'll also argue that the languages of contemporary art and engineering research are complex, dynamic, and often frustratingly impenetrable to outsiders. In art, a blue disk can be a cliche, or, in the right place at the right time, profound. In engineering, analogous contexts determine the beauty of a coordinate frame or mathematical equation. In both spheres, aesthetic interpretation is based on knowledge of prior art and contemporary dialogues. Being so similar, it is not surprising that unexpected forces arise when these two spheres are brought together.
- 6:00 Plenary Session (summary of our symposium by Simon Colton)
- 9:00 Opening remarks and business
Friday, March 28
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- 9:00 Opening remarks and business
- 9:15 Rapporteur Reports
- Chair: Ashok Goel
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 General Discussion
- Chair: Ashok Goel
- 12:00 Concluding remarks
- 9:00 Opening remarks and business
Accepted Papers
Papers included in the symposium were selected by the program committee using double blind reviews and each paper was evaluated by at least three program committee members. All papers will be presented in one of two afternoon poster sessions the first two days of the symposium, while some will also be selected for brief oral presentations to facilitate topical discussions in the mornings. Click on a paper title for a PDF abstract describing the work.
- Innovation Systems are Self-organizing Complex Adaptive Systems
- Levent Yilmaz
- Problem Finding and Problem Invention
- Robert Root-Bernstein
- TORQUE's Imagination
- Ashok Goel
- Computational Creativity in Narrative Generation: Utility and Novelty Based on Models of Story Comprehension
- R. Michael Young
- Achieving Creative Behavior Using Curious Learning Agents
- Mary Maher, Kathryn Merrick and Rob Saunders
- Computational Model of Human Creativity in Dance Choreography
- Klara Nahrstedt, Ruzena Bajcsy, Lisa Wymore, Renata Sheppard and Katherine Mezur
- How is it Possible to Create a New Idea?
- Stellan Ohlsson
- Generating and Understanding Creative Comparisons
- Tony Veale
- Tableau Machine, A Creative Alien Presence
- Adam Smith, Zachary Pousman, Mario Romero and Michael Mateas
- Textual Affect Sensing for Computational Advertising
- Alessandro Valitutti, Carlo Strapparava and Oliviero Stock
- Creativity in Metaphor
- John Barnden
- Intrinsically Motivated Creative Search
- Chris Vigorito and Andrew Barto
- Interactive Genetic Algorithms for use as Creativity Enhancement Tools
- Jarod Kelly, Colleen Seifert and Panos Papalambros
- Adjusting the Novelty Thermostat: Courting Creative Success Through Judicious Randomness
- Kyle Jennings
- Towards a Computational Model of Creative Cultures
- Rob Saunders and Kaz Grace
- Integrating Syntactic Structure Into Computational Musical Applications Using Unsupervised Parsing Techniques
- Reid Swanson, Andrew Gordon and Elaine Chew
- Computational Creativity: Three Generations of Research and Beyond
- Debasis Mitra
- Swarm Exquisite-Corpses Games
- Paulo Urbano
- Interactive Drama Authoring with Plot and Character: An Intelligent System that Fosters Creativity
- Mei Si, Stacy Marsella and Mark Riedl
- Creative Collaborative Exploration in Multiple Environments
- Matthew Turk, Tobias Hollerer and Stefan Arisona
- Human Tended Gardens of Evolutionary Design
- Matthew Hockenberry and Ernesto Arroyo
- Creative Social Systems
- Ricardo Sosa and John Gero
- Daydreaming with Intention: Scalable Blending-Based Imagining and Agency in Generative Interactive Narrative
- Jichen Zhu and D. Fox Harrell
- Ambiguity in the Communication and Development of New Ideas
- Tamara Carleton and Larry Leifer
- Subsymbolic Re-representation to Facilitate Learning Transfer
- Dan Ventura
- Creativity versus the Perception of Creativity in Computational Systems
- Simon Colton