[Commlist] CFP: Int. Conf. on Computational Creativity

Welcome to the 15th International Conference on Computational 
Creativity, ICCC’24!
June 17-21, 2024
Jönköping, Sweden
https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc24/ 
<https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc24/>

-- 2nd call for papers --
*Submission deadline: *Abstracts: Feb 21st, 2024; Full papers: Feb 28th, 
2024

The International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) is the 
premier forum for disseminating research on computational and AI 
creativity, bringing together researchers interested in exploring the 
ever-increasing capacities of technology in creative domains such as 
writing, visual arts and music. State-of-the-art AI algorithms can now 
create works that to a casual observer are comparable to those of human 
professionals, but many have questioned whether this is sufficient (or 
even necessary) for a computer to be considered to be “acting 
creatively”. This conference and its associated workshops exist to 
discuss the how and what of computational participation in creativity.

Come join us in the beautiful Swedish town of Jönköping 
([ˈjœ̂nːˌɕøːpɪŋ]) at Midsummer and discuss questions like: by which 
metrics should we judge the creativity of AI output? Can an AI tool 
augment the creativity of its human users?  What are the ethical 
implications of algorithms taking on creative roles? And, of course: can 
an AI be creative at all?  These questions and more are at the heart of 
the sub-field of AI known as Computational Creativity (CC), defined as 
“the art, science, philosophy, and engineering of computational systems 
which, by taking on particular responsibilities, exhibit behaviors that 
unbiased observers would deem to be creative”.

Computational Creativity

The last few years have seen incredible progress in the generative 
capacities of AI and machine learning. In many creative domains such as 
writing, art and music generation, state-of-the-art AI algorithms can 
now create works that to a casual observer are comparable to those of 
human professionals. This new paradigm has brought attention to 
AI-generated content from academia, industry and the general public, 
resulting in an explosion of system development, application of such 
systems and societal awareness. Hand-in-hand with the development, the 
importance of dealing with the ethical considerations and the 
authenticity of AI-generated content is at an all-time high.

Computational creativity, as a field, has been investigating these 
questions for decades. The Association for Computational Creativity 
(ACC) has since 2010 organised the yearly International Conference on 
Computational Creativity (ICCC), the only scientific conference which 
entirely focuses on AI creativity specifically. The conference series, 
and the associated workshops, act as a platform for researchers of any 
discipline to meet and discuss the how and what of creativity in any 
computational setting. Whatever domain you’re working in, if your work 
concerns generative AI or any other computational model that you’re 
trying to make exhibit creative behaviors, we’d love for you to come and 
share it with us!

ICCC’24 is an interdisciplinary venue open to all researchers, 
practitioners and artists to submit work related to AI and Creativity. 
The ICCC community includes researchers with interests as broad as 
games, literature, visual communication, software development, the 
sciences, design, and engineering, alongside of course AI and ML. Hence, 
whatever your field, whatever your background, join us!

Venue

This year’s conference will take you to the beautiful Swedish town 
Jönköping ( [ˈjœ̂nːˌɕøːpɪŋ]), perfectly tucked in between mirror-clear 
lakes, fairytale forest and mountainous hills. Further, taking place 
between the 17th and 21st of June, 2024, the conference will culminate 
in one of Sweden’s most celebrated holidays: Midsummer! Thus, we invite 
you to join us in discussing the creative character of computational and 
AI systems while engaging in the Swedish national pass time of “Fika” - 
having too much coffee and cake, greeting Mother Nature in the beauty of 
the Swedish forest and joining us in celebrating Midsummer: the most 
magical time of the year!

Activities at ICCC

As per tradition, in addition to the main conference and the social 
program, the scientific program is accompanied by workshops and 
tutorials related to computational creativity. This  helps create the 
dynamic and interdisciplinary venue that ICCC is! More info about this 
year's workshops and tutorials will soon be made public on the 
conference website.

The ACC is also a forward-thinking community that emphasises the 
contribution of younger researchers. This means that there is a special 
Early Career Symposium (ECS) directed at junior researchers (typically 
PhD and Master students). See the website for more information on how to 
apply.

Call for Full Papers

Computational Creativity (CC) is a discipline with roots in scientific 
disciplines such as Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, 
Engineering, Design, Psychology and Philosophy that each explores the 
potential for computers to be creative – either in partnership with 
humans or as autonomous creators in their own right.

ICCC is an annual conference that welcomes papers on different aspects 
of CC, on systems that exhibit varying degrees of creative autonomy, on 
systems that act as creative partners for human creators, on frameworks 
that offer greater clarity or computational felicity for thinking about 
machine (and human) creativity, on methodologies for building or 
evaluating CC systems, on approaches to teaching CC in schools and 
universities or to promoting societal uptake of CC as a field and as a 
technology, and so on.

Note that a separate call for short papers will soon be sent out with 
its own submission deadline.

Important Dates

  * Abstracts due: February 21, 2024
    /(The abstract can be updated at the full paper submission deadline.)/
  * Submissions due: February 28, 2024
  * Acceptance notification: April 21, 2024
  * Camera-ready copies due: May 12, 2024
  * Conference: June 17-21, 2024

All deadlines given are 23:59 anywhere on Earth time.

Topics of interest include:

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

  * *Domain-Specific Applications of Computational
    Creativity:* applications of creativity in areas such as music,
    language, narrative, poetry, games, visual arts, graphic design,
    product design, architecture, entertainment, education, mathematical
    invention, scientific discovery, or programming.
  * *Generative AI Models of Creativity:* extensions or modifications of
    generative AI algorithms that provide new capabilities, new metrics,
    or improved utility in creative contexts.
  * *Human-Machine Co-Creativity:* Systems, studies, frameworks, or
    methodologies related to co-creativity between humans and AI, with
    emphasis on systems in which the machine acts as a creative partner.
  * *Computational Creativity Evaluation:* Metrics, frameworks,
    formalisms and methodologies for the evaluation of creativity in
    computational systems, or for the evaluation of how such systems are
    perceived in society.
  * *Social Models:* Computational models of social aspects of
    creativity, including: social creativity, the diffusion of ideas,
    collaboration, team dynamics, and creativity in social settings.
  * *Computational Paradigms:* computational approaches for modelling
    cognitive aspects of creativity, such as heuristic search,
    analogical and meta-level reasoning, cognitive architectures, and
    re-representation.
  * *Interdisciplinary Perspectives:* Perspectives on computational
    creativity which draw from philosophical and/or sociological studies
    in the context of creative AI systems.
  * *Data and Creativity:* Data science approaches to computational
    creativity: Resource development and data gathering/knowledge
    curation for creative AI. There is a need for datasets and resources
    that are scalable, extensible and freely available/open-source.
  * *Societal Impact:* Ethical considerations in the design, deployment
    or testing of creative AI systems, as well as studies that explore
    the societal impact of computational creativity and generative AI.
  * *Psychological Factors:* Computational models of psychological
    factors that enhance creativity, including emotion, surprise
    (unexpectedness), reflection, conflict, diversity, motivation,
    knowledge, intuition, and reward structures. Additionally, social or
    experiential factors related to novelty and originality, such as
    innovation, improvisation, and virtuosity.
  * *Provocations:* Raising new issues not on this list that bring the
    foundations of the discipline into question or throw new light on
    seemingly settled debates.


Paper Types

We welcome the submission of five different types of long papers, each 
with the intent to approach an equal distribution of accepted papers. 
During your submission, please indicate the category by which your paper 
best fits into:

  * *Technical papers:* These are papers posing and addressing
    hypotheses about aspects of creative behaviour in computational
    systems. The emphasis here is on using solid experimentation,
    computational models, formal proof, and/or argumentation that
    clearly demonstrates advancement in the state-of-the-art or current
    thinking in CC research. Strong evaluation of approaches through
    comparative, statistical, social, or other means is essential.
  * *System or Resource description papers:* These are papers describing
    the building and deployment of a creative system or resource to
    produce artefacts of potential cultural value in one or more
    domains. The emphasis here is on presenting engineering achievement,
    technical difficulties encountered and overcome, techniques
    employed, reusable resources built, and general findings about how
    to get computational systems to produce valuable results.
    Presentation of results from the system or resource is expected.
    While full evaluation of the approaches employed is not essential if
    the technical achievement is very high, some evaluation is expected
    to show the contribution to CC of this work.
  * *Study papers:* These are papers which draw on allied fields such as
    psychology, philosophy, cognitive science, mathematics, humanities,
    the arts, and so on; or which appeal to broader areas of AI and
    Computer Science in general; or which appeal to studies of the field
    of CC as a whole. The emphasis here is on presenting enlightening
    novel perspectives related to the building, assessment, or
    deployment of systems ranging from autonomously creative systems to
    creativity support tools. Such perspectives can be presented through
    a variety of approaches including ethnographic studies, thought
    experiments, comparisons with studies of human creativity, and
    surveys. The contribution of the paper to CC should be made clear in
    every case.
  * *Cultural application papers:* These are papers presenting the use
    of creative software in a cultural setting, for example via art
    exhibitions/books, concerts/recordings/scores, poetry or story
    readings/anthologies, cookery nights/books, results for scientific
    journals or scientific practice, released games/game jam entries,
    and so on. The emphasis here is on a clear description of the role
    of the system in the given context, the results of the system in the
    setting, technical details of inclusion of the system, and
    evaluative feedback from the experience garnered from public
    audiences, critics, experts, stakeholders, and other interested 
parties.
  * *Position papers: *These are papers presenting an opinion on some
    aspect of the culture of CC research, including discussions of
    future directions, speculative explorations of the impact of
    state-of-the-art approaches, past triumphs or mistakes, and current
    issues. The emphasis here is on carefully arguing a position;
    highlighting or exposing previously hidden or misunderstood issues
    or ideas; and providing thought leadership for the field, either in
    a general fashion or in a specific setting. While opinions need not
    be substantiated through formalization or experimentation, any
    justification of a point of view will need to draw on a thorough
    knowledge of the field of CC and of overlapping areas, and provide
    relevant motivations and arguments.

ICCC is a conference that emphasises the empirical and theoretical 
evaluation of technical systems, results and outcomes, in an ethical and 
scientific fashion. Evaluation is expected in Technical papers (strong 
evaluation) and in System or Resource description papers. Although 
evaluation is not required in other types of papers, the contribution of 
the paper to CC should be made clear.

All submissions will be reviewed in terms of quality, impact, and 
relevance to the area of Computational Creativity.

Presentation

In order to ensure the highest level of quality, all submissions will be 
evaluated in terms of their scientific, technical, artistic, and/or 
cultural contribution, and therefore there will be only one format for 
submission. The program committee will decide the best format for 
presenting accepted manuscripts at the conference.

To be included in the proceedings, each paper must be presented at the 
conference by one of the authors. This implies that at least one author 
will have to register and will have to participate on-site.

*** All authors of accepted papers can opt to also show a demo of their 
system or prototype during the conference. You will be asked if you are 
interested in this option during the submission process ***

Submission instructions

This year the submission process has two stages: initial submission of a 
title and abstract, and subsequent submission of the full paper a week 
later.

The recommended length for the abstract is 100-200 words.
The full paper page limit is 8 pages + up to 2 pages of references.

Papers will be reviewed in a double-blind fashion, which necessitates 
that authors take appropriate steps to remain anonymous. You are 
responsible for making your papers anonymous to allow for double-blind 
review. Remove all references to your home institution(s), refer to your 
past work in the third person, etc.

To be considered, papers must be submitted as a PDF document formatted 
according to ICCC style (which is similar to AAAI and IJCAI formats). 
The conference website will be updated to include the correct templates.

All contributions must be submitted through the EasyChair platform:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccc24 
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccc24>

Double submissions policy: The work submitted to ICCC should not be 
under review in another scientific conference or journal at the time of 
submission.

Organizing Committee

  * Kazjon Grace, University of Sydney, Australia,
    (kazjon.grace /at/ sydney.edu.au) <mailto:(Australiakazjon.grace /at/ sydney.edu.au)>
  * Maria M. Hedblom, Jönköping School of Engineering, Sweden,
    (maria.hedblom /at/ ju.se) <mailto:(maria.hedblom /at/ ju.se)>
  * Teresa Llano, Monash University, Australia, (teresa.llano /at/ monash.edu)
    <mailto:(teresa.llano /at/ monash.edu)>
  * Pedro Martins, University of Coimbra, Portugal, (pjmm /at/ dei.uc.pt)
    <mailto:(pjmm /at/ dei.uc.pt)>
  * Guendalina Righetti, University of Oslo, Norway,
    (guendalina.righetti /at/ ifikk.uio.no)
    <mailto:(guendalina.righetti /at/ ifikk.uio.no)>
  * Garrit Schaap, Jönköping School of Engineering, Sweden,
    (garrit.schaap /at/ ju.se) <mailto:(garrit.schaap /at/ ju.se)>
  * Jéssica Parente, University of Coimbra, Portugal, (jparente /at/ dei.uc.pt)
    <mailto:(jparente /at/ dei.uc.pt)>
  * Joana Rovira Martins, University of Coimbra, Portugal,
    (jmmartins /at/ dei.uc.pt) <mailto:(jmmartins /at/ dei.uc.pt)>
  * José Pedro Lopes, University of Coimbra, Portugal,
    (joselopes /at/ dei.uc.pt) <mailto:(joselopes /at/ dei.uc.pt)>


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