Design Creativity
AIEDAM Special Issue, Fall 2018, Vol.32, No.4
Edited by: Katherine Fu, Mark Fuge, David Brown
This special issue of AIEDAM will be devoted to papers concerned with Design Creativity.
Engineering design relies on creative thought to produce new and exciting products, systems, and services. The study of creativity provides many opportunities for interdisciplinary research between engineering, cognitive science, and computer science. This special issue aims to capture a snapshot of some of the best work at this intersection of areas.
For this issue, while papers with normal AI content are desired, we will broaden the scope to include papers that explicitly discuss creative thinking, types of reasoning, and explicit use of knowledge; such topics often influence the foundation of creative AI design systems.
We are interested in papers that address either or both of the following:
- Empirical outcomes—such as creative results, processes, or systems;
- Foundational theory—such as understanding how, why, and what makes designs or designers creative, so as to provide useful performance bounds on computational creativity.
We encourage authors to emphasize rigorous evaluation (e.g., benchmarking their results to the existing state-of-the-art where feasible), rather than describing a case study or implementation in isolation.
Suitable topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Computational models, techniques, or systems for simulating individual or team creativity in engineering design;
- Computational models, techniques, or systems for simulating social or other influences on creativity;
- Models of creative reasoning (including transductive reasoning such as analogy or bio-inspiration);
- Studies of creative reasoning;
- Techniques for evaluating products, systems, services and processes for decisions about creativity;
- Methods for learning to assess design creativity;
- Mixing human and computational design creativity;
- Mathematical and computational foundations of design creativity;
- Computability and complexity limits of design creativity.
All submissions will be anonymously reviewed by at least three reviewers. The selection for publication would be made on the basis of these reviews.
Information about the format and style required for AIEDAM papers, as well as about submission, can be found at:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ai-edam/information/instructions-contributors
Note that all queries and information about submissions for special issues should be addressed to the Guest Editors, and not to the Editor in Chief.
Please submit your paper through the ScholarOne system online at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/aie
You need to create a user account first if you are a new user. During your submission process, pay attention to the following two steps:
- On Step 1 (Type, title & abstract): Select “Yes” for the “Special Issue” question.
- On Step 5 (Details & comments): Select “Design Creativity - Vol.32/3” for “Special Issue Name”.
Important dates:
| Intent to submit (Title and Abstract): | As soon as possible after the Conference |
| Submission deadline for full papers: | 10 May 2017 |
| Reviews due: | 30 August 2017 |
| Notification and reviews to authors: | 30 Sept 2017 |
| Revised version submission deadline: | 15 Jan 2018 |
| Issue appears online: | June 2018 |
Guest editors:
Please direct all inquiries to the guest editors:
| Dr. Katherine Fu | Dr. Mark Fuge | Dr. David C Brown |
| G.W.Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering | Dept. of Mechanical Engineering | Computer Science Department |
| Georgia Institute of Technology, MRDC 4508 | 2172 Glenn L. Martin Hall | WPI |
| 801 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA | University of Maryland | Worcester, MA 01609, USA |
| Email: katherine.fu [at] me.gatech.edu | College Park, MD 20742, USA | Email: dcb [at] cs.wpi.edu |
| Email: fuge [at] umd.edu |