Artificial Intelligence and Creativity
Papers from the 1993 Spring Symposium
Terry Dartnall and Steven Kim, Program Cochairs
Technical Report SS-93-01. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California. This technical report is also available in book and CD format.
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Contents
Prologue
How Could a Copycat Ever be Creative? / 1
D. Hofstadter
Perception and Creation of Diverse Alphabetic Styles / 11
Gary McGraw and Douglas Hofstadter
Part I: The Nature of Creativity
Overview: Creativity: Where Should We Look for It? / 19
0. Laske
Temporal Quantitative Aspects of Creativity / 27
J.-P. Corriveau
Disagreement in Creative Problem Solving / 31
M. Haggith
Creativity, Science, and Technology
Elements of Scientific Creativity / 39
S. Kocabas
The Invention of Microprogramming as a Creative Process / 47
S. Dasgupta
AI and Creative Engineering Design / 51
N. J. I. Mars, V. V. Sushkov, and P. M. Wognum
Part Two: Computer Models of Creativity
Theoretical Issues
Connectionism, Case-Based Reasoning, Logic
Parallel Distributed Processing Approaches to Creative Reasoning / 57
G. Halford, J. Wiles, M. S. Humphrcy, W. H. Wilson
Reasoning with Assertions and Examples / 61
M. Kerber, E. Melis, and J. H. Siekmann
Automating Creative Design / 67
M. Lenart, P. Padawitz, A. Paszlor
The Representational Redescription Hypothesis
AI, Creativity, Representational Redescription, Intentionality, Mental Life: An Emerging Picture / 73
T. Dartnall
Representational Redescription for Sea Slugs / 81
C. Thornton
The Representational Redescription Hypothesis Compared Against Two Cases / 91
D. Peterson
Domain Specific Models
Design
Case-based Creative Design / 95
J. L. Kolodner, and L. M. Wills
Supporting Creative Design Using Adjacency Structures / 103
S. Meyer, S. J. Fenves, and F. Zhao
Creative Mechanism Design Based on First Principles / 111
Boi Faltings and Kun Sun
Music
Experienced-based Music Composition / 119
R. Levinson, C. Wescott
Real-time Musical Accompaniment / 127
B. Baird
The Expression of Aesthetic Principles as Syntactic Structures and Heuristic Preferences and Constraints in a Computer Program that Composes Jazz Improvisations / 133
D. J. H. Brown, and S. Sidley
Transports
A Case-based Model of Creativity / 137
S. R. Turner
Knowledge Support Systems for Conceptual Design: the Amplification of Creativity / 145
E. Edmonds, L. Candy
Creative Sailboat Design / 151
J. Park
Part Three: Computer Support for Creativity
Supporting the Creativity Cycle through Visual Languages / 155
B. R. Gaines, and M. L. G. Shaw
Computing and the Social Nature of Design / 163
Steve R. Harrison
Automating Learning and Creativity through Knowledge Integration / 171
S. H. Kim
Author Index / 180
Electronic Addresses / 180
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