TY - GEN
T1 - The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains
AU - Pease, Alison
AU - Colton, Simon
AU - Warburton, Chris
AU - Nathanail, Athanasios
AU - Preda, Irina
AU - Arnold, Daniel
AU - Winterstein, Daniel
AU - Cook, Mike
N1 - Funding Information:
We are very grateful to the thoughtful reviews and meta-review. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from EPSRC Grant EP/P017320/1. The fourth author is supported by the NERC National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) grant, ref. no. NE/R01051X/1 and the James Watt Scholarship scheme at Heriot-Watt University. The eighth author is supported by the Royal Academy of Engineering under the Research Fellowship scheme.
Publisher Copyright:
© ICCC 2019.
PY - 2019/6/21
Y1 - 2019/6/21
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://computationalcreativity.net/iccc2019/assets/iccc_proceedings_2019.pdf
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85094322800
T3 - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019
SP - 250
EP - 257
BT - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019
A2 - Grace, Kazjon
A2 - Cook, Michael
A2 - Ventura, Dan
A2 - Maher, Mary Lou
PB - Association for Computational Creativity
T2 - 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019
Y2 - 17 June 2019 through 21 June 2019
ER -