Prof Simon Colton

Professor of Computational Creativity, Games and Artificial Intelligence

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London

s.colton@qmul.ac.uk

www.qmul.ac.uk/eecs/people/profiles/coltonsimon.html

Centre for Multimodal AI

Research
Publications
Grants

Research

Computational Creativity, AI, Game Design, Computer Art, Automated Program Synthesis

Interests

I have 25+ years of experience in AI, including generative technologies, such as deep learning, evolutionary approaches and procedural content generation.

Publications

Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI

2024

Automatic Generation of Expressive Piano Miniatures
Colton S, Bradshaw L, Banar B and Bhandari K
International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC) Sweden 17 Jun 2024 - 21 Jun 2024.

QMRO

17-06-2024

Motifs, Phrases, and Beyond: The Modelling of Structure in Symbolic Music Generation
Bhandari K and Colton S
Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design – 13th International Conference, EvoMUSART 2024 Aberystwyth, Wales, United Kingdom 3 Apr 2024 - 5 Apr 2024. Editors: Johnson C, Rebelo S and Santos I.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-56992-0_3

QMRO

03-04-2024

2023

AI-Driven Sonification of Automatically Designed Games
Cardinale S, Cook M and Colton S
AAAI conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment 8 Oct 2023 - 12 Oct 2023.
08-10-2023

A Tool for Generating Controllable Variations of Musical Themes Using Variational Autoencoders with Latent Space Regularisation
Banar B, Bryan-Kinns N and Colton S
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. vol. 37 (13), 16401-16403.

DOI 10.1609/aaai.v37i13.27059

QMRO

26-06-2023

Towards Mode Balancing of Generative Models via Diversity Weights
Berns S, Colton S and Guckelsberger C
14th International Conference on Computational Creativity.
19-06-2023

Neuro-Symbolic Composition of Music with Talking Points
Cardinale S, Colton S and Banar B
14th International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC 2023) 19 Jun 2023 - 23 Jun 2023.
19-06-2023

Autoregressive Self-Evaluation: A Case Study of Music Generation Using Large Language Models
Banar B and Colton S
2023 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI). vol. 00, 264-265.

DOI 10.1109/cai54212.2023.00118

06-06-2023

A Tool for Composing Music via Graphic Scores in the style of György Ligeti’s Artikulation using Self-supervised Representation Learning
Banar B and Colton S
AAAI 2023 The 37th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Creative AI Across Modalities Workshop.
13-02-2023

Automatically Adding to Artistic Cultures
Colton S and Banar B
In Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, Springer Nature 50-66.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-29956-8_4

01-01-2023

Extending Generative Neo-Riemannian Theory for Event-Based Soundtrack Production
Colton S and Cardinale S
In Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, Springer Nature 67-83.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-29956-8_5

01-01-2023

2022

Finding Chemical Organisations of Matter-Conserving AChems
Young J and Colton S
The Conference on Artificial Life.

DOI 10.1162/isal_a_00553

18-07-2022

Connecting Audio and Graphic Score using Self-supervised Representation Learning - A Case Study with György Ligeti's Artikulation
Banar B and Colton S
International Conference on Computational Creativity 2022.

QMRO

27-06-2022

Neo-Riemannian Theory for Generative Film and Videogame Music
Cardinale S and Colton S
International Conference on Computational Creativity 27 Jun 2022 - 1 Jul 2022.
27-06-2022

A Quality-Diversity-based Evaluation Strategy for Symbolic Music Generation
Banar B and Colton S
International Conference on Learning Representations 2022 Machine Learning Evaluation Standards Workshop 29 Apr 2022.

QMRO

29-04-2022

Identifying Critical Decision Points in Musical Compositions using Machine Learning
Banar B and Colton S
2022 IEEE 24th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP). vol. 00, 1-6.

DOI 10.1109/mmsp55362.2022.9948708

QMRO

28-01-2022

A Systematic Evaluation of GPT-2-Based Music Generation
Banar B and Colton S
In Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, Springer Nature 19-35.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-03789-4_2

01-01-2022

Towards Educating Artificial Neural Systems
Colton S
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 3212
01-01-2022

Preface
Apperly I, Bundy A, Cohn A, Colton S, Cussens J, D'Avila Garcez A, Hahn U, Jamnik M, Jay C, Mareschal D, Sammut C, Schmid U, Seed A, Stahl BC, Steedman M and Tamaddoni-Nezhad A
Ceur Workshop Proceedings vol. 3227
01-01-2022

The @artbhot Text-To-Image Twitter Bot
Smith A and Colton S
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2022., 175-179.
01-01-2022

2021

Exploring XAI for the Arts: Explaining Latent Space in Generative Music
Bryan-Kinns N, Banar B, Ford C, Reed C, Zhang Y, Colton S and Armitage J
NeurIPS 2021 - eXplainable AI Approaches for Debugging and Diagnosis Workshop.

QMRO

14-12-2021

Expressivity of parameterized and data-driven representations in quality diversity search
Hagg A, Berns S, Asteroth A, Colton S and Bäck T
Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference., 678-686.

DOI 10.1145/3449639.3459287

26-06-2021

Generating Music with Extreme Passages using GPT-2
Banar B and Colton S
Evo* 2021.

QMRO

17-06-2021

Danesh: Interactive Tools for Understanding Procedural Content Generators
Cook M, Gow J, Smith G and Colton S
Ieee Transactions on Games, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 14 (3), 329-338.

DOI 10.1109/tg.2021.3078323

QMRO

07-05-2021

Evolving Neural Style Transfer Blends
Colton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 12693, 65-81.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-72914-1_5

01-01-2021

First experiments in the automatic generation of pseudo-profound pseudo-bullshit image titles
Colton S, Berns S and Ferrer BP
AISB Convention 2021: Communication and Conversations.
01-01-2021

Generative Search Engines: Initial Experiments
Colton S, Smith A, Berns S, Murdock R and Cook M
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2021., 237-247.
01-01-2021

Automating Generative Deep Learning for Artistic Purposes: Challenges and Opportunities
Berns S, Broad T, Guckelsberger C and Colton S
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2021., 357-366.
01-01-2021

GANlapse Generative Photography
Colton S and Ferrer BP
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2021., 281-285.
01-01-2021

Active Divergence with Generative Deep Learning - A Survey and Taxonomy
Broad T, Berns S, Colton S and Grierson M
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2021., 227-236.
01-01-2021

2020

Bridging Generative Deep Learning and Computational Creativity
Berns S and Colton S
International Conference on Computational Creativity 7 Sep 2020 - 11 Sep 2020.
07-09-2020

Adapting and Enhancing Evolutionary Art for Casual Creation
Colton S, McCormack J, Berns S, Petrovskaya E and Cook M
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 12103, 17-34.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-43859-3_2

01-01-2020

Controlling Self-organization in Generative Creative Systems
Young J and Colton S
In Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design, Springer Nature 194-209.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-43859-3_14

01-01-2020

Possibilities and Limitations for AI: What Can’t Machines Do?
Colton S
In Work in The Future, Springer Nature 109-122.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-21134-9_12

01-01-2020

2019

Towards Liveness in Game Development
Martin AR and Colton S
2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). vol. 00, 1-4.

DOI 10.1109/cig.2019.8848092

23-08-2019

General Analytical Techniques For Parameter-Based Procedural Content Generators
Cook M, Colton S, Gow J and Smith G
2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG). vol. 00, 1-8.

DOI 10.1109/cig.2019.8848024

QMRO

23-08-2019

Guest Editorial Special Issue on AI-Based and AI-Assisted Game Design

Ieee Transactions on Games, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 11 (1), 1-4.

DOI 10.1109/tg.2019.2903377

01-03-2019

The HR3 system for automated code generation in creative settings
Colton S, Pease A, Cook M and Chen C
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019., 108-115.
01-01-2019

The importance of applying computational creativity to scientific and mathematical domains
Pease A, Colton S, Warburton C, Nathanail A, Preda I, Arnold D, Winterstein D and Cook M
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019., 250-257.
01-01-2019

Framing in computational creativity - A survey and taxonomy
Cook M, Colton S, Pease A and Llano MT
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2019., 156-163.
01-01-2019

Camera Obscurer: Generative Art for Design Inspiration
Singh D, Rajcic N, Colton S and McCormack J
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 11453, 51-68.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-16667-0_4

01-01-2019

2018

Inferring Design Constraints From Game Ruleset Analysis
Cook M, Colton S and Raad A
2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG). vol. 00, 1-8.

DOI 10.1109/cig.2018.8490412

QMRO

17-08-2018

Curious users of casual creators
Nelson MJ, Gaudl SE, Colton S and Deterding S
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games., 1-6.

DOI 10.1145/3235765.3235826

07-08-2018

Rapid game jams with fluidic games: A user study & design methodology
Gaudl SE, Nelson MJ, Colton S, Saunders R, Powley EJ, Pérez Ferrer B, Ivey P and Cook M
Entertainment Computing vol. 27, 1-9.

DOI 10.1016/j.entcom.2018.02.007

QMRO

08-03-2018

Issues of authenticity in autonomously creative systems
Colton S, Pease A and Saunders R
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2018., 272-279.
01-01-2018

Neighbouring communities: Interaction, lessons and opportunities
Cook M and Colton S
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2018., 256-263.
01-01-2018

Investigating and automating the creative act of software engineering
Colton S, Powley EJ and Cook M
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2018., 224-231.
01-01-2018

Redesigning computationally creative systems for continuous creation
Cook M and Colton S
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2018., 32-39.
01-01-2018

A parameter-space design methodology for casual creators
Colton S, Nelson MJ, Powley EJ, Gaudl Rob Saunders SE, Ferrer BP, Ivey P and Cook M
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2018., 264-271.
01-01-2018

The Use of Automated Theory Formation in Support of Hazard Analysis
Ireland A, Llano MT and Colton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 10811, 237-243.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-77935-5_17

01-01-2018

2017

Addressing the “Why?” in computational creativity: A non-anthropocentric, minimal model of intentional creative agency
Guckelsberger C, Salge C and Colton S
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2017.
01-01-2017

Wevva: Democratising game design
Powley EJ, Nelson MJ, Gaudl SE, Colton S, Pérez Ferrer B, Saunders R, Ivey P and Cook M
Proceedings of the 13th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, AIIDE 2017., 273-275.
01-01-2017

Fluidic games in cultural contexts
Nelson MJ, Gaudl SE, Colton S, Powley EJ, Ferrer BP, Saunders R, Ivey P and Cook M
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2017.
01-01-2017

Exploring novel game spaces with fluidic games
Gaudl SE, Nelson MJ, Colton S, Saunders R, Powley EJ, Ivey P, Ferrer BP and Cook M
Proceedings of AISB Annual Convention 2017., 344-347.
01-01-2017

Mixed-initiative approaches to on-device mobile game design
Nelson MJ, Colton S, Powley EJ, Gaudl SE, Ivey P, Saunders R, Ferrer BP and Cook M
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 1907

QMRO

01-01-2017

2016

The ANGELINA Videogame Design System—Part II
Cook M, Colton S and Gow J
Ieee Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games vol. 9 (3), 254-266.

DOI 10.1109/TCIAIG.2016.2520305

QMRO

28-03-2016

The ANGELINA Videogame Design SystemPart I
Cook M, Colton S and Gow J
Ieee Transactions on Games, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 9 (2), 192-203.

DOI 10.1109/tciaig.2016.2520256

QMRO

09-03-2016

Automated Fictional Ideation via Knowledge Base Manipulation
Llano MT, Colton S, Hepworth R and Gow J
Cognitive Computation vol. 8 (2), 153-174.

DOI 10.1007/s12559-015-9366-4

QMRO

11-01-2016

Intrinsically Motivated General Companion NPCs via Coupled Empowerment Maximisation
Guckelsberger C, Salge C and Colton S
2016 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG)., 1-8.

DOI 10.1109/cig.2016.7860406

QMRO

01-01-2016

Towards the Automatic Optimisation of Procedural Content Generators
Cook M, Gow J and Colton S
2016 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG)., 1-8.

DOI 10.1109/cig.2016.7860424

01-01-2016

What if a fish got drunk? Exploring the plausibility of machine-generated fictions
Llano MT, Guckelsberger C, Hepworth R, Gow J, Corneli J and Colton S
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016., 213-220.
01-01-2016

Supportive and antagonistic behaviour in distributed computational creativity via coupled empowerment maximisation
Guckelsberger C, Salge C, Saunders R and Colton S
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016., 9-16.
01-01-2016

The Flowr online platform: Automated programming and computational creativity as a service
Charnley J, Colton S, Llano MT and Corneli J
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016., 363-370.
01-01-2016

Semi-Automated Level Design via Auto-Playtesting for Handheld Casual Game Creation
Powley EJ, Colton S, Gaudl S, Saunders R and Nelson MJ
2016 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG)., 1-8.

DOI 10.1109/cig.2016.7860438

01-01-2016

The beyond the Fence musical and computer says show documentary
Colton S, Llano MT, Hepworth R, Charnley J, Gale CV, Baron A, Pachet F, Roy P, Gervás P, Collins N, Sturm B, Weyde T, Wolff D and Lloyd JR
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016., 311-320.
01-01-2016

Semi-Automated Design Space Exploration for Formal Modelling
Grov G, Ireland A, Llano MT, Kovacs P, Colton S and Gow J
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 9675, 282-289.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-33600-8_22

01-01-2016

2015

Computational poetry workshop: Making sense of work in progress
Corneli J, Jordanous A, Shepperd R, Llano MT, Misztal J, Colton S and Guckelsberger C
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015., 268-275.
01-01-2015

The painting fool sees! New projects with the automated painter
Colton S, Halskov J, Ventura D, Gouldstone I, Cook M and Pérez-Ferrer B
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2015., 189-196.
01-01-2015

Hybrid procedural content generation: A proposal
Cook M and Colton S
AISB Convention 2015.
01-01-2015

2014

Toward the Adaptive Generation of Bespoke Game Content
Browne C, Colton S, Cook M, Gow J and Baumgarten R
In Handbook of Digital Games 17-61.

DOI 10.1002/9781118796443.ch1

07-04-2014

Toward the Adaptive Generation of Bespoke Game Content
Browne C, Colton S, Cook M, Gow J and Baumgarten R
In Handbook of Digital Games, Wiley 15-61.

DOI 10.1002/9781118796443.ch1

07-03-2014

Towards the automatic generation of fictional ideas for games
Llano MT, Cook M, Guckelsberger C, Colton S and Hepworth R
AAAI Workshop - Technical Report. vol. WS-14-16, 35-41.
01-01-2014

Coinvent: Towards a computational concept invention theory
Schorlemmer M, Smaill A, Kühnberger KU, Kutz O, Colton S, Cambouropoulos E and Pease A
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2014.
01-01-2014

The Flowr framework: Automated flowchart construction, optimisation and alteration for creative systems
Charnley J, Colton S and Llano MT
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2014.
01-01-2014

Assessing progress in building autonomously creative systems
Colton S, Pease A, Corneli J, Cook M and Llano T
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2014.
01-01-2014

Ludus ex machina: Building a 3D game designer that competes alongside humans
Cook M and Colton S
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2014.
01-01-2014

Baseline methods for automated fictional ideation
Llano MT, Hepworth R, Colton S, Gow J, Charnley J, Lavrač N, Žnidaršič M, Perovšek M, Granroth-Wilding M and Clark S
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2014.
01-01-2014

You can’t know my mind: A festival of computational creativity
Colton S and Ventura D
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2014.
01-01-2014

A rogue dream: Automatically generating meaningful content for games
Cook M and Colton S
AAAI Workshop - Technical Report. vol. WS-14-16, 2-7.
01-01-2014

On acid drops and teardrops: Observer issues in computational creativity
Colton S, Cook M, Hepworth R and Pease A
AISB 2014 - 50th Annual Convention of the AISB.
01-01-2014

Automating game design in three dimensions
Cook M, Colton S and Gow J
AISB 2014 - 50th Annual Convention of the AISB.
01-01-2014

The HR3 discovery system: Design decisions and implementation details
Colton S, Ramezani R and Llano MT
AISB 2014 - 50th Annual Convention of the AISB.
01-01-2014

Automating fictional ideation using conceptnet
Llano MT, Hepworth R, Colton S, Charnley J and Gow J
AISB 2014 - 50th Annual Convention of the AISB.
01-01-2014

To that sect and other short games
Cook M and Colton S
AISB 2014 - 50th Annual Convention of the AISB.
01-01-2014

Countdown numbers game: Solved, analysed, extended
Colton S
AISB 2014 - 50th Annual Convention of the AISB.
01-01-2014

2013

Bridging the Gap Between Argumentation Theory and the Philosophy of Mathematics
Pease A, Smaill A, Colton S and Lee J
In The Argument of Mathematics, Springer Nature 309-338.

DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-6534-4_16

01-01-2013

A discussion on serendipity in creative systems
Pease A, Colton S, Ramezani R, Charnley J and Reed K
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2013., 64-71.
01-01-2013

Using theory formation techniques for the invention of fictional concepts
Cavallo F, Pease A, Gow J and Colton S
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2013., 176-183.
01-01-2013

From mechanics to meaning and back again: Exploring techniques for the contextualisation of code
Cook M and Colton S
AAAI Workshop - Technical Report. vol. WS-13-19, 2-6.
01-01-2013

Nobody's a critic: On the evaluation of creative code generators - A case study in videogame design
Cook M, Colton S and Gow J
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2013., 123-130.
01-01-2013

Towards Narrative Ideation via Cross-Context Link Discovery Using Banded Matrices
Perovšek M, Cestnik B, Urbančič T, Colton S and Lavrač N
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 8207, 333-344.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-41398-8_29

01-01-2013

Mechanic Miner: Reflection-Driven Game Mechanic Discovery and Level Design
Cook M, Colton S, Raad A and Gow J
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 7835, 284-293.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-37192-9_29

01-01-2013

2012

Aesthetic considerations for automated platformer design
Cook M, Colton S and Pease A
Proceedings of the 8th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, AIIDE 2012., 124-129.
01-12-2012

Mining rules from player experience and activity data
Gow J, Colton S, Cairns P and Miller P
Proceedings of the 8th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment, AIIDE 2012., 148-153.
01-12-2012

Computational Creativity in a Closed Game System
Browne C and Colton S
2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG)., 296-303.

DOI 10.1109/cig.2012.6374169

01-09-2012

Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Computational Aesthetics in Games
Browne C, Yannakakis GN and Colton S
Ieee Transactions on Games, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 4 (3), 149-151.

DOI 10.1109/tciaig.2012.2212900

01-09-2012

Unsupervised Modeling of Player Style with LDA
Gow J, Baumgarten R, Cairns P, Colton S and Miller P
Ieee Transactions on Games, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 4 (3), 152-166.

DOI 10.1109/tciaig.2012.2213600

16-08-2012

A Survey of Monte Carlo Tree Search Methods
Browne CB, Powley E, Whitehouse D, Lucas SM, Cowling PI, Rohlfshagen P, Tavener S, Perez D, Samothrakis S and Colton S
Ieee Transactions on Games, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 4 (1), 1-43.

DOI 10.1109/tciaig.2012.2186810

03-02-2012

Computational creativity: The final frontier?
Colton S and Wiggins GA
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. vol. 242, 21-26.

DOI 10.3233/978-1-61499-098-7-21

01-01-2012

Full-FACE poetry generation
Colton S, Goodwin J and Veale T
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2012., 95-102.
01-01-2012

On the notion of framing in computational creativity
Charnley J, Pease A and Colton S
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2012., 77-81.
01-01-2012

ANGELINA - Coevolution in automated game design
Cook M and Colton S
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2012.
01-01-2012

The Painting Fool: Stories from Building an Automated Painter
Colton S
In Computers and Creativity, Springer Nature 3-38.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-31727-9_1

01-01-2012

Initial Results from Co-operative Co-evolution for Automated Platformer Design
Cook M, Colton S and Gow J
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 7248, 194-203.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-29178-4_20

01-01-2012

Evolving a Library of Artistic Scene Descriptors
Colton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 7247, 35-47.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-29142-5_4

01-01-2012

2011

Computational creativity theory: Inspirations behind the face and the IDEA models
Pease A and Colton S
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2011., 72-77.
01-12-2011

Computational creativity theory: The FACE and IDEA descriptive models
Colton S, Charnley J and Pease A
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2011., 90-95.
01-12-2011

Automated collage generation - With more intent
Cook M and Colton S
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2011., 1-3.
01-12-2011

The painting fool in new dimensions
Colton S
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2011.
01-12-2011

On impact and evaluation in computational creativity: A discussion of the Turing test and an alternative proposal
Pease A and Colton S
AISB 2011: Computing and Philosophy., 15-22.
01-12-2011

Multi-Faceted Evolution Of Simple Arcade Games
Cook M and Colton S
2011 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG'11)., 289-296.

DOI 10.1109/cig.2011.6032019

01-08-2011

Ludic Considerations of Tablet-Based Evo-Art
Colton S, Cook M and Raad A
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 6625, 223-233.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-20520-0_23

01-01-2011

2010

Applying lakatos-style reasoning to AI problems
Pease A, Ireland A, Colton S, Ramezani R, Smaill A, Llano MT, Grov G and Guhe M
In Thinking Machines and The Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles 149-173.

DOI 10.4018/978-1-61692-014-2.ch010

01-12-2010

Automated collage generation - With intent
Krzeczkowska A, El-Hage J, Colton S and Clark S
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC-10., 36-40.
01-12-2010

The painting fool teaching interface
Colton S
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC-10.
01-12-2010

Evolving pixel shaders for the prototype video game Subversion
Howlett A, Colton S and Browne C
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on AI and Games - A Symposium at the AISB 2010 Convention., 41-46.
01-12-2010

Player classification using a meta-clustering approach
Ramirez-Cano D, Colton S and Baumgarten R
CGAT 2010 - Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technology, Proceedings., 297-304.
01-12-2010

Experiments in objet trouvé browsing
Colton S, Gow J, Torres P and Cairns P
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC-10., 238-247.
01-12-2010

Capturing Player Experience with Post-Game Commentaries
Gow J, Cairns P, Colton S, Miller P and Baumgarten R
3rd Annual International Conferences on Computer Games, Multimedia and Allied Technology (CGAT 2010).

DOI 10.5176/978-981-08-5480-5_085

06-04-2010

Using Analogical Representations for Mathematical Concept Formation
Pease A, Colton S, Ramezani R, Smaill A and Guhe M
Studies in Computational Intelligence. vol. 314, 301-314.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-15223-8_17

01-01-2010

Evolving 3D Buildings for the Prototype Video Game Subversion
Martin A, Lim A, Colton S and Browne C
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 6024, 111-120.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-12239-2_12

01-01-2010

Evolving Behaviour Trees for the Commercial Game DEFCON
Lim C-U, Baumgarten R and Colton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 6024, 100-110.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-12239-2_11

01-01-2010

Towards ontology use, re-use and abuse in a computational creativity collective A position statement
Colton S
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. vol. 210, 1-4.

DOI 10.3233/978-1-60750-544-0-1

01-01-2010

2009

AI and Games Symposium
Romano D, Moffat D, El Rhalibi A, Narayek A, Pavia A, Ballin D, Livingstone D, Friedman D, Cassidy G, Millington I, Wright I, Mazzotta I, Alexandre IMH, Orkin J, Sykes J, Good J, Robertson J, Gjedde L, Cavazza M, Gillies M, et al.
Adaptive and Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems - Proceedings of the 23rd Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, AISB 2009., 1-2.
01-12-2009

Experiments in example-based image filter retrieval
Torres P, Colton S and Rüger S
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 437, 9-16.
01-12-2009

Towards a computational model of embodied mathematical language
Pease A, Crook P, Smaill A, Colton S and Guhe M
Adaptive and Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems - Proceedings of the 23rd Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, AISB 2009., 35-37.
01-12-2009

Towards the automatic invention of simple mixed reality games
Baumgarten R, Nika M, Gow J and Colton S
Adaptive and Emergent Behaviour and Complex Systems - Proceedings of the 23rd Convention of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, AISB 2009., 53-58.
01-12-2009

Computational Creativity: Coming of Age
Colton S, de Mántaras RL and Stock O
AI Magazine, Wiley vol. 30 (3), 11-14.

DOI 10.1609/aimag.v30i3.2257

01-09-2009

Evolving Approximate Image Filters
Colton S and Torres P
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 5484, 467-477.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-01129-0_53

01-01-2009

Evolving Simple Art-Based Games
Colton S and Browne C
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 5484, 283-292.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-01129-0_32

01-01-2009

Seven Catchy Phrases for Computational Creativity Research
Colton S
Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings. vol. 9291
01-01-2009

2008

Combining AI Methods for Learning Bots in a Real‐Time Strategy Game
Baumgarten R, Colton S and Morris M
International Journal of Computer Games Technology, Wiley vol. 2009 (1)

DOI 10.1155/2009/129075

28-12-2008

Applications of a Global Workspace framework to mathematical discovery
Charnley J and Colton S
CEUR Workshop Proceedings. vol. 378, 1-16.
01-12-2008

Emotionally aware automated portrait painting
Valstar M, Colton S and Pantic M
Belgian/Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference., 407-408.
01-12-2008

Experiments in constraint-based automated scene generation
Colton S
Proceedings of the International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity 2008., 127-136.
01-12-2008

Bridging the Gap Between Argumentation Theory and the Philosophy of Mathematics
Pease A, Smaill A, Colton S and Lee J
Foundations of Science, Springer Nature vol. 14 (1-2), 111-135.

DOI 10.1007/s10699-008-9150-y

30-10-2008

AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report: Preface
Ventura D, Maher ML and Colton S
AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report. vol. SS-08-03
30-09-2008

Creativity versus the perception of creativity in computational systems
Colton S
AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report. vol. SS-08-03, 14-20.
30-09-2008

Emotionally aware automated portrait painting
Colton S, Valstar MF and Pantic M
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts., 304-311.

DOI 10.1145/1413634.1413690

10-09-2008

Reports of the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia
Balduccini M, Baral C, Brodaric B, Colton S, Fox P, Gutelius D, Hinkelmann K, Horswill I, Huberman B, Hudlicka E, Lerman K, Lisetti C, McGuinness D, Maher ML, Musen MA, Sahami M, Sleeman D, Thönssen B, Velasquez J and Ventura D
AI Magazine. vol. 29 (3), 107-115.

DOI 10.1609/aimag.v29i3.2148

01-09-2008

Classification results in quasigroup and loop theory via a combination of automated reasoning tools
Sorge V, Colton S, McCasland R and Meier A
Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae vol. 49 (2), 319-339.
01-01-2008

Emotionally Aware Automated Portrait Painting Demonstration
Valstar MF, Colton S and Pantic M
2008 8th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition., 1-2.

DOI 10.1109/afgr.2008.4813367

01-01-2008

A Global Workspace Framework for Combining Reasoning Systems
Charnley J and Colton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 5144, 261-265.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-85110-3_21

01-01-2008

Joined-up reasoning for automated scientific discovery a position statement and research agenda
Colton S
AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report. vol. FS-08-03, 18-19.
01-01-2008

Automatic Invention of Fitness Functions with Application to Scene Generation
Colton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 4974, 381-391.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-78761-7_41

01-01-2008

2007

Automatic Construction and Verification of Isotopy Invariants
Sorge V, Meier A, McCasland R and Colton S
Journal of Automated Reasoning. vol. 40 (2-3), 221-243.

DOI 10.1007/s10817-007-9093-y

11-12-2007

Towards a general framework for program generation in creative domains
Hull M and Colton S
Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity., 137-144.
01-12-2007

Guest editorial: special issue on Inductive Logic Programming
Muggleton S, Otero R and Colton S
Machine Learning, Springer Nature vol. 70 (2-3), 119-120.

DOI 10.1007/s10994-007-5036-4

13-11-2007

Case-based player simulation for the commercial strategy game DEFCON
Baumgarten R and Colton S
Proceedings of CGAMES 2007 - 11th International Conference on Computer Games: AI, Animation, Mobile, Educational and Serious Games., 131-135.
01-01-2007

Using Formal Concept Analysis in Mathematical Discovery
Colton S and Wagner D
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 4573, 205-220.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-73086-6_18

01-01-2007

Boosting Descriptive ILP for Predictive Learning in Bioinformatics
Jiang N and Colton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 4455, 275-289.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-73847-3_28

01-01-2007

Computational Discovery in Pure Mathematics
Colton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 4660, 175-201.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-73920-3_9

01-01-2007

2006

Mathematical applications of inductive logic programming
Colton S and Muggleton S
Machine Learning. vol. 64 (1-3), 25-64.

DOI 10.1007/s10994-006-8259-x

17-05-2006

Combining AI systems for classification in non-associative algebra
Sorge V, Meier A, McCasland R and Colton S
Informal Proceedings - 13th Symposium on the Integration of Symbolic Computation and Mechanized Reasoning, Calculemus 2006., 100-113.
01-01-2006

Automatic generation of implied constraints
Charnley J, Colton S and Miguel I
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications vol. 141, 73-77.
01-01-2006

Managing Automatically Formed Mathematical Theories
Colton S, Torres P, Cairns P and Sorge V
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 4108, 237-250.

DOI 10.1007/11812289_19

01-01-2006

Automatic Construction and Verification of Isotopy Invariants
Sorge V, Meier A, McCasland R and Colton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 4130, 36-51.

DOI 10.1007/11814771_5

01-01-2006

Predictive and Descriptive Approaches to Learning Game Rules from Vision Data
Santos P, Colton S and Magee D
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 4140, 349-359.

DOI 10.1007/11874850_39

01-01-2006

2005

The TM System for Repairing Non-Theorems
Colton S and Pease A
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. vol. 125 (3), 87-101.

DOI 10.1016/j.entcs.2004.07.021

01-07-2005

Automated conjecture making in number theory using HR, Otter and Maple
Colton S
Journal of Symbolic Computation, Elsevier vol. 39 (5), 593-615.

DOI 10.1016/j.jsc.2004.12.003

01-05-2005

2004

Lakatos-style automated theorem modification
Colton S and Pease A
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. vol. 110, 975-976.
01-01-2004

Automatic Generation of Classification Theorems for Finite Algebras
Colton S, Meier A, Sorge V and McCasland R
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 3097, 400-414.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-25984-8_30

01-01-2004

2003

ILP for Mathematical Discovery
Colton S and Muggleton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 2835, 93-111.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-39917-9_8

01-01-2003

The Homer System
Colton S and Huczynska S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 2741, 289-294.

DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-45085-6_24

01-01-2003

2002

Making conjectures about maple functions
Colton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). vol. 2385, 259-274.

DOI 10.1007/3-540-45470-5

01-01-2002

The HR Program for Theorem Generation
Colton S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 2392, 285-289.

DOI 10.1007/3-540-45620-1_24

01-01-2002

2001

Constraint Generation via Automated Theory Formation
Colton S and Miguel I
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 2239, 575-579.

DOI 10.1007/3-540-45578-7_42

01-01-2001

2000

On the notion of interestingness in automated mathematical discovery
COLTON S, BUNDY A and WALSH T
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Elsevier vol. 53 (3), 351-375.

DOI 10.1006/ijhc.2000.0394

01-09-2000

Workshop: The Role of Automated Deduction in Mathematics
Colton S, Sorge V and Martin U
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 1831, 517-517.

DOI 10.1007/10721959_49

01-01-2000

Automatic Invention of Integer Sequences
Colton S, Bundy A and Walsh T
Proceedings of the 17th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence and 12th Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2000., 558-563.
01-01-2000

1999

Automatic concept formation in pure mathematics
Colton S, Bundy A and Walsh T
IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. vol. 2, 786-791.
01-12-1999

Refactorable numbers - A machine invention
Colton S
Journal of Integer Sequences vol. 2 (2)
01-12-1999

1998

HR - automatic concept formation in finite algebras
Colton S
Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence - Conference Proceedings.
01-01-1998

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