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Computational Creativity is an emerging field that studies and exploits the potential of computers to be more interventive and autonomous in creative processes. This paper presents a recently proposed distributed computational architecture that is based on a cognitive theory that intends to model human consciousness. In its nucleus lies a Global Workspace and a number of Generators that compete to have access to it. Two Generators being developed by our team are described, one based on the Conceptual Blending Theory, the other based on an evolutionary process.
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The Proceedings of the International Conferences on Computational Creativity and their ancestor workshops (http://computationalcreativity.net/home/conferences/).
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Future Emerging Technologies.
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This research is partially funded by project ConCreTe. The project ConCreTe acknowledges the financial support of the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Programme within the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission, under FET grant number 611733.
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Cardoso, A., Martins, P., Assunção, F., Correia, J., Machado, P. (2016). A Distributed Approach to Computational Creativity. In: Novais, P., Camacho, D., Analide, C., El Fallah Seghrouchni, A., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing IX. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 616. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25017-5_1
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