http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/ 2012-05-15T13:35:56+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/ http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-01-15T00:21:48+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=alisonpease&rev=1326586908&do=diff Alison Pease is a Research Associate in the CCG, working on the Computational Creativity Theory project. Her webpages are currently here: Alison's Homepage. text/html 2012-02-20T23:20:43+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=angelina&rev=1329780043&do=diff * December 2010 - Present * Staff: Michael Cook and Simon Colton * More: Games By ANGELINA - Project Site Procedural generation techniques improve year on year thanks to contributions from industry and academia, but the task of creating entire videogames, rather than partial components, has received less attention. ANGELINA is one project that aims to investigate techniques and attempt to build systems that automatically design complete videogames from the most basic starting points possi… text/html 2009-03-01T14:05:41+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=art&rev=1235916341&do=diff The creative arts is an incredible arena of creative activity. We are interested in applying computational techniques to simulate artistic processes, and achieve the kinds of inspiring outputs that visual artists produce. Projects The Painting Fool Image Filtering Evolutionary Art Marc Hull developed a program called Avera which provides a framework for evolving visual art pieces. Avera works by evolving trees of rules which can be interpreted into Java code that draws the pieces when run… text/html 2009-02-28T09:23:38+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=autoboardgame&rev=1235813018&do=diff For his PhD thesis, Cameron Browne developed a software program called Ludi that invented new board games, tested them for quality, then explained the rules to human opponents so that they could play them against the AI. Ludi learnt to predict whether a given game would be of interest to human players with a reasonable level of accuracy and invented several interesting games, at least two of which (Yavalath and Ndengrod) have proven to be of exceptional quality. text/html 2010-12-08T18:01:59+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=bioinformatics&rev=1291831319&do=diff This page is under construction. text/html 2009-03-01T14:01:29+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=boostingilp&rev=1235916089&do=diff This page is under construction. text/html 2010-08-03T11:43:19+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=cadgame&rev=1280832199&do=diff [Scene from Bioshock] * November 2008 to November 2011 * Staff: Jeremy Gow, Robin Baumgarten, Simon Colton * Funding: EPSRC, TSB * Project partners: Rebellion, Paul Cairns (University of York) The CADGame project is applying machine learning techniques to gameplay and player experience data, in order to classify gamers and recognise key experiences and activities. The aim is to support the creation of adaptive games which respond to individual gamers and gaming experiences. We're a… text/html 2009-03-01T13:28:59+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=cameronbrowne&rev=1235914139&do=diff Cameron Browne is a researcher in the group, with interests in computational art and games, in particular, the automatic invention of board games. Books Browne, C. (2000) Hex Strategy: Making The Right Connections, A. K. Peters, Massachusetts (363 pages). Browne, C. (2005) Connection Games: Variations on a Theme, A. K. Peters, Massachusetts (402 pages). text/html 2010-12-08T18:02:00+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=charlottephilippe&rev=1291831320&do=diff text/html 2009-02-27T21:39:11+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=combinedreasoning&rev=1235770751&do=diff One of the key research issues in computational creativity is how to get multiple AI systems to work together so that the whole is more than the sum of the parts. We have shown that combined reasoning systems can [a] outperform stand-alone AI systems at standard tasks such as constraint solving, theorem proving and machine learning [b] be more flexible in their application than stand-alone systems, and [c] enable more sophisticated - often more creative - tasks to be undertaken by AI systems. text/html 2012-01-13T13:14:36+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=create&rev=1326460476&do=diff What is Computational Creativity? Computational Creativity is a sub-area of Artificial Intelligence research, where we study how to build software which can take on some of the creative responsibility in arts and science projects. This has practical aspects, and we build creative software to generate artefacts such as poems, mathematical theories, board games, arcade games, abstract and representational art. We build software to be taken seriously as autonomously creative, as well as software … text/html 2010-03-03T12:42:14+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=danielramirezcano&rev=1267620134&do=diff Daniel Ramirez Cano is a researcher in the group, with interests in Automated Agents for social gaming platforms. Daniel's Homepage text/html 2012-03-28T13:49:00+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=data&rev=1332938940&do=diff Gow, Baumgarten, Cairns, Colton & Miller, “Unsupervised Modelling of Player Style with LDA”. Submitted to Transactions on Computational Intelligence & AI in Games. CSV data and R scripts text/html 2009-02-27T19:29:53+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=defconapi&rev=1235762993&do=diff Robin Baumgarten's DEFCON API Page Introversion's Hub for the DEFCON API Robin's Blog on AIGameDev text/html 2009-02-27T19:48:09+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=design&rev=1235764089&do=diff Graphic design projects offers unique opportunities where software can act as creative collaborators with designers. Projects Enhancing Objet Trouve Methods in Graphic Design We are interested in new modalities for browsing through artefacts and algorithms, where a machine learning component is able to approximate a user's aesthetic and utilitarian preferences as they use the software. Using this approximation, the software can make suggestions that the user may not have thought of themsel… text/html 2010-04-22T17:00:27+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=euridicecabanes&rev=1271952027&do=diff text/html 2012-01-13T12:33:18+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=events&rev=1326457998&do=diff Forthcoming Events * Simon Colton's Whitehead Lecture at Goldsmiths College, January 2012. Here is the abstract: In Computational Creativity research, we study how to engineer software that can take on some of the creative responsibility in arts and science projects. In recent years, we have undertaken a practical approach to addressing questions arising in Computational Creativity. In particular, we have built software that can perform mathematical discovery; software that automates cognit… text/html 2012-01-13T12:59:44+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=flaminiacavallo&rev=1326459584&do=diff Flaminia's Web Pages Flaminia is a PhD student in the CCG, working on the Computational Creativity Theory project. text/html 2012-01-13T20:09:50+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=game&rev=1326485390&do=diff We are interested in building software which can act as a creative collaborator in the design of board games and video games. We have strong links with the UK Research Network on Artificial Intelligence and Video Game technologies. Projects CAD-GAME text/html 2010-04-22T17:06:37+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=garethwilliams&rev=1271952397&do=diff text/html 2009-03-01T14:00:55+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=gc&rev=1235916055&do=diff This page is under construction. text/html 2009-03-02T14:32:00+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=grandchallenge&rev=1236004320&do=diff 'Creativity' is one of those words that some computer scientists avoid at all costs. Part of the reason for this is that detractors of research into Artificial Intelligence have used it against the discipline: “computers will never be intelligent because they can't be creative”. Part of the reason is that it is such a mis-used, poorly understood, loaded word, that it seems bound to cause unease whenever used in conjunction with machines. Finally, until recently, it's been difficult to project th… text/html 2009-03-02T14:15:15+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=hr&rev=1236003315&do=diff The HR program performs automated theory formation, which is a machine learning routine which fits broadly into the descriptive logic learning context, i.e., there is no underlying classification problem to be solved, so it's unsupervised learning, where the purpose is to find out some interesting things about your data. Theory Formation involves the invention of concepts, the making of conjectures and - in domains where the axioms admit this - the proving of theorems and finding of counterexam… text/html 2010-12-08T18:02:00+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=jennifermunroe&rev=1291831320&do=diff text/html 2010-09-27T15:00:08+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=jeremygow&rev=1285596008&do=diff I am a research associate in the CCG, working on the CAD-GAME project. My current research is on improving user experience in adaptive video games, although I'm interested in a variety of topics in AI and HCI. For more information see my departmental web page. text/html 2012-01-17T11:29:26+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=johncharnley&rev=1326799766&do=diff John Charnley is a Research Associate in the group, with interests in the systematic combination of reasoning techniques and their application to AI tasks. John is currently working on a knowledge transfer project, in partnership with Lionhead Studios. This project is looking at applications of AI techniques to GUI design for the Microsoft Kinect controller. text/html 2012-01-13T17:12:05+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=lecture_courses&rev=1326474725&do=diff Alison Pease and Simon Colton are teaching the Ludic Computing course this year: * Ludic Computing Please also see our overview page for a series of lectures on Computational Creativity given at the 2011 PhD Autumn School in Helsinki. text/html 2012-01-13T12:50:56+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=location&rev=1326459056&do=diff We are located in the William Penney building on Imperial College's South Kensington Campus. * Maps and directions to South Kensington Campus text/html 2010-12-08T18:02:00+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=lucianodelcorro&rev=1291831320&do=diff text/html 2012-03-20T10:57:13+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=ludic&rev=1332241033&do=diff Ludic Computing is the study of the design, construction and evaluation of computer systems for play. Computers support a huge range of playful and creative activities: from video games and interactive art, to tools for creative expression and playful exploration; as artificial players of games, and as creators in their own right. It is a highly interdisciplinary area with links to many other fields, including Graphics, Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. text/html 2012-04-04T11:32:15+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=main&rev=1333535535&do=diff Welcome to the Computational Creativity Group (CCG) of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, UK. We conduct Artificial Intelligence research into the development and combination of AI systems for creative tasks. We use this research to address interesting practical and philosophical questions about what it means for software to be autonomously creative. text/html 2009-07-16T00:06:13+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=marianika&rev=1247699173&do=diff Maria's Homepage is here: Maria's Homepage text/html 2009-03-02T14:04:39+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=maths&rev=1236002679&do=diff We have been looking into automating various reasoning processes - and their combination - in pure mathematics for some years. We are interested in both automating cognitively plausible models of mathematical theory formation (e.g., in the Wheelbarrow project below) and in computational mathematical discovery in general - which leads to new concepts, conjectures, theorems and proofs in pure mathematics (e.g., in the HR project below). text/html 2009-05-22T15:04:44+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=metaleveltheoryformation&rev=1243001084&do=diff This project addresses the question of whether a theory formation system can gain from analysing interesting established theories, before it attempts actual theory formation. We call the ability to learn how to form theories from existing theories Automated Meta-Theory Induction. text/html 2012-05-03T14:33:12+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=michaelcook&rev=1336051992&do=diff Michael Cook is a PhD researcher in the Computational Creativity Group. Previously, he studied at Imperial for an MEng in Computer Science. For more information on what Michael is currently working on, see Games By ANGELINA. Research I'm interested in research related to evolutionary programming, videogame design, and the psychology of AI. text/html 2012-01-13T12:49:47+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=newsarchive&rev=1326458987&do=diff * March 2010 Eurídice Cabañes joins the group for three months as a visiting PhD student from the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. * November 2009 Simon Colton to talk at the “Thursday Club” in the Department of Computing at Goldsmith's College. Further details are available here: The Thursday Club text/html 2009-03-01T13:33:42+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=ningjiang&rev=1235914422&do=diff Ning Jiang is a PhD student in the group, with interests in the usage of boosting for descriptive and predictive logic-based learning, with applications to bioinformatics. Ning's Homepage is here: Ning's Homepage text/html 2009-03-02T14:18:00+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=objettrouve&rev=1236003480&do=diff Overview In many cases, it is safe to assume that people know exactly what they wish to achieve when using a particlar piece of software. However, it is often the case that a user will have only a vague idea of what they wish to achieve. This is particularly true when the software is used for creative purposes such as in graphic design. text/html 2010-12-08T18:02:00+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=papers&rev=1291831320&do=diff Here are some key papers by CCG members (circa 2006): * The automatic reformulation of constraint satisfaction problems, using machine learning and automated theorem proving. PDF - ECAI 2006 * Proving of non-theorems by using machine learning and model generation to discover related theorems. PDF - ENTCS 2005 text/html 2009-03-01T13:34:47+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=pedrotorres&rev=1235914487&do=diff Pedro's Homepage is here: Pedro's Homepage Pedro Torres is a PhD student in the group, and also a Research Associate on the Objet Trouve project. He has interests in Automated Theory Formation and in the Objet Trouve approach to computing. Pedro works at the intersection of Logic and Machine Learning and is interested in designing a system which can form mathematical theories automatically from basic definitions and axioms. As part of that goal, he is devising an algorithm which takes example… text/html 2012-01-13T12:48:27+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=people&rev=1326458907&do=diff Staff * Simon Colton (Reader in Computational Creativity) * Cameron Browne (Research Fellow) * John Charnley (Research Associate) * Jeremy Gow (Research Associate) * Alison Pease (Research Associate) PhD Students * Robin Baumgarten * Flaminia Cavallo * Michael Cook * Ning Jiang * Ramin Ramezani * Stephen Tavener * Pedro Torres text/html 2012-01-13T16:08:36+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=raminramezani&rev=1326470916&do=diff Ramin Ramezani is a PhD student in the group working on the Wheelbarrow Project, with interests in the automatic reformulation of AI problems and combined reasoning. Visit Ramin's Webpage Book Chapter * A. Pease, M. Guhe, A. Smaill, A. Ireland, T. Rodriguez, G. Grov, R. Ramezani and S. Colton “Applying Lakatos-style reasoning to AI problems” In Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles, forthcoming, 2010. text/html 2012-01-13T20:10:04+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=research&rev=1326485404&do=diff We study theoretical, practical and applied aspects of computational creativity in... * The visual arts * Graphic design * Pure mathematics * Game design * Bioinformatics Funded Projects * UCT for Games and Beyond * Enhancing Objet Trouve Methods in Graphic Design * Computer-Aided Game Design * AI Social Agents * The Wheelbarrow Project - Computational Modeling of Axiom Reformulation * Automatic City Generation for Video Games: Project Subversion * Automated Board Ga… text/html 2011-11-02T10:55:27+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=robinbaumgarten&rev=1320231327&do=diff General Robin Baumgarten is a PhD student in the group, with interests in AI-bots for video games and the dynamic alteration of video games for improved gameplay. Robin's Homepage is here: Robin's Homepage Further contact details and projects, as well as published papers and Robin's master thesis (Combining Artificial Intelligence Methods: Automating the Playing of DEFCON) can be found there, too. text/html 2010-10-21T21:14:31+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=seminars&rev=1287692071&do=diff The Computational Bioinformatics Group holds weekly seminars where invited speakers and members of the group present their research in areas such as: * Use of Inductive Logic Programming for Bioinformatic applications * Development and combination of AI systems for creative tasks * Applications of graph theory, mathematical modeling, and computational techniques to solving large-scale problems in computational and systems biology text/html 2010-12-08T18:02:00+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=shafeentejani&rev=1291831320&do=diff text/html 2012-01-13T12:51:16+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=sidebar&rev=1326459076&do=diff * Home * People * Research * Lecture Courses * Events * Software * Find Us text/html 2012-01-13T12:54:41+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=simoncolton&rev=1326459281&do=diff Simon Colton is a Reader in Computational Creativity and EPSRC Leadership Fellow. He leads the Computational Creativity Group in the Department of Computing at Imperial College. He is involved in a number of projects in the Computational Creativity Group. text/html 2009-05-18T15:22:15+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=socialagents&rev=1242656535&do=diff * February 2009 to January 2011 * Staff: Daniel Ramirez Cano and Simon Colton * Funding: EPSRC, TSB * Project partners: Emote Games We aim at developing AI Non-Player Characters (NPC) for Emote Games' new social hunting simulator The Hunter. text/html 2008-11-28T14:36:59+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=software&rev=1227883019&do=diff * HR, a system for automated theory formation. * HRAgency * NumbersWithNames * ICARuS, a system combining Machine Learning and Constraint Solving. Developed by John Charnley. text/html 2010-10-05T22:03:45+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=stephentavener&rev=1286312625&do=diff Stephen Tavener is a PhD student in the CCG group, working on the EPSRC-funded project “UCT for Games and Beyond”. Stephen's interests are AI for board games; and in particular, how AIs can be improved to enhance the player experience. Publications Browne, C & Tavener S (2010) “Fast Playouts for Connection Games”, IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games (submitted). text/html 2010-12-08T18:02:00+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=subversion&rev=1291831320&do=diff This page is under construction. text/html 2010-10-14T19:02:22+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=uctgames&rev=1287079342&do=diff “UCT for Games and Beyond” is an EPSRC-funded project jointly run by Imperial College London and the Universities of Essex and Bradford. The aim of this three year project (2010-2013) is to fully explore the MCTS algorithm and investigate its use in novel domains. text/html 2008-12-19T13:57:38+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=video&rev=1229695058&do=diff The CCG has strong links with the UK Research Network on Artificial Intelligence and Video Game technologies. CAD-GAME Staff: Simon Colton, Jeremy Gow and Robin Baumgarten The EPSRC-funded CAD-GAME project aims to develop methods and tools for designing adaptive video games based on machine learning of user experience profiles from user-game interactions. text/html 2009-03-02T14:16:17+01:00 http://ccg.doc.ic.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=wheelbarrow&rev=1236003377&do=diff * November 2008 to November 2011 * Staff: Ramin Ramezani, Simon Colton * Funding: EPSRC grant EP/F036647 * Project partners: University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University The aim of this project is to develop a model of symbolic theory formulation and reformulation that takes account of recent developments in the cognitive science of mathematics, starting from ideas formulated by Lakatos on heuristics involved in the evolution of mathematical theories. Imperial's part of this proj…