AIEDAM Special Issue: Design Creativity (May 2017)

Website: AIEDAM Design Creativity
Deadline for full papers: 1 May 2017

Special Issue, Summer 2018, Vol.32, No.3
Guest Editors: Katherine Fu, Mark Fuge, David C. Brown

This special issue of the AIEDAM journal 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:

1. Empirical outcomes -- such as creative results, processes, or systems;
2. 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 here.

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 ManuscriptCentral.

Important dates:
Intent to submit (Abstract & Title): As soon as possible
Submission deadline for full papers:  1 May 2017
Reviews due: 30 Aug 2017
Notification and reviews to authors: 30 Sep 2017
Revised version submission deadline: 15 Jan 2018=20
Issue to publisher: 1 Mar 2018=20
Issue online: Jun 2018