The Effect of Input Knowledge on Creativity

Simon Colton; Alison Pease; Graeme D Ritchie

The Effect of Input Knowledge on Creativity

Simon Colton, Alison Pease, Graeme D Ritchie

Computing Science

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Abstract

Recently, many programs have been written to perform tasks which are usually regarded as requiring creativity in humans. We can derive some commonalities between these programs in order to build further creative programs. Key to this is the derivation of certain measures which assess how creative a program is. Starting from recent proposals by Ritchie, we deﬁne possible measures which describe the extent to which a program produces novel output. We discuss how this relates to the creativity of the program.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Informatics Research Report EDI-INF-RR-0055
Subtitle of host publication	DIVISION of INFORMATICS, Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, November 2001
Place of Publication	Edinburgh, UK
Publisher	University of Edinburgh
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - Nov 2001
Event	4th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2001 - Vancouver, Canada Duration: 30 Jul 2001 → 2 Aug 2001

Conference

Conference	4th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2001
Abbreviated title	ICCBR-2001
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Vancouver
Period	30/07/01 → 2/08/01

Keywords

machine creativity
philosophy of science
measures of creativity
fine-tuning
novelty

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The Effect of Input Knowledge on Creativity. / Colton, Simon; Pease, Alison; Ritchie, Graeme D.

Informatics Research Report EDI-INF-RR-0055: DIVISION of INFORMATICS, Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, November 2001. Edinburgh, UK : University of Edinburgh, 2001.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Published conference contribution

Colton, S, Pease, A & Ritchie, GD 2001, The Effect of Input Knowledge on Creativity. in Informatics Research Report EDI-INF-RR-0055: DIVISION of INFORMATICS, Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications, Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems, November 2001. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, 4th International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, ICCBR 2001, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 30/07/01.

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