The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains

Alison Pease; Simon Colton; Chris Warburton; Athanasios Nathanail; Irina Preda; Daniel Arnold; Daniel Winterstein; Mike Cook

The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains

Alison Pease, Simon Colton, Chris Warburton, Athanasios Nathanail, Irina Preda, Daniel Arnold, Daniel Winterstein, Mike Cook

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Science and mathematics are currently underrepresented in the computational creativity (CC) community. We discuss why the CC community should apply their work to mathematical and scientific domains, and argue that this would be mutually beneficial for the domains in question. We identify a key challenge in Automated Reasoning - that it has not achieved widespread adoption by mathematicians; and one in Automated Scientific Discovery - the need for communicability of automatically generated scientific knowledge. We recommend that CC researchers help to address these two challenges by: (i) applying systems based on cognitive mechanisms to scientific and mathematical domains; (ii) employing experience in building and evaluating interactive systems to this context; and (iii) using expertise in automatically producing framing functionality to enhance the communicability of automatically generated scientific knowledge.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019
Editors	Kazjon Grace, Michael Cook, Dan Ventura, Mary Lou Maher
Publisher	Association for Computational Creativity
Pages	250-257
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9789895416011
Publication status	Published - 21 Jun 2019
Event	10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019 - Charlotte, United States Duration: 17 Jun 2019 → 21 Jun 2019 Conference number: 10 https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2019/

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Name	Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019

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Conference	10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019
Abbreviated title	ICCC
Country/Territory	United States
City	Charlotte
Period	17/06/19 → 21/06/19
Internet address	https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2019/

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Pease, A., Colton, S., Warburton, C., Nathanail, A., Preda, I., Arnold, D., Winterstein, D., & Cook, M. (2019). The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains. In K. Grace, M. Cook, D. Ventura, & M. L. Maher (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019 (pp. 250-257). (Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019). Association for Computational Creativity.

Pease, Alison ; Colton, Simon ; Warburton, Chris et al. / The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019. editor / Kazjon Grace ; Michael Cook ; Dan Ventura ; Mary Lou Maher. Association for Computational Creativity, 2019. pp. 250-257 (Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019).

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Pease, A, Colton, S, Warburton, C, Nathanail, A, Preda, I, Arnold, D, Winterstein, D & Cook, M 2019, The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains. in K Grace, M Cook, D Ventura & ML Maher (eds), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019, Association for Computational Creativity, pp. 250-257, 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, 17/06/19.

The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains. / Pease, Alison; Colton, Simon; Warburton, Chris et al.
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019. ed. / Kazjon Grace; Michael Cook; Dan Ventura; Mary Lou Maher. Association for Computational Creativity, 2019. p. 250-257 (Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019).

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