Co-operative OuLiPian Generative Literature using Human Based Evolutionary Computing

The tools and techniques employed by Interactive Evolutionary Computing [21] offer procedures which put human interaction at the centre of the problem solving process. Human Based GA systems [7], [8] such as the Automatic Concept Evolver (ACE) [6] offer an infrastructure that has been proven to work efficiently in solving problems which involve the evolution of natural language strings. Oulipo is a French literary movement founded in the 1960s which applies mathematical constraints in the creation of literature making them distinct from other experimental literary groups [10]. Their literary creations change the dynamics of the author-reader relationship because they provide a different experience from reading traditional narratives where intuition and emergence are fundamental to creative exploration. This paper proposes the application of the ACE methodology to arbitrate between a group of interacting authors to produce Oulipian literature and specifies experiment to test this approach in practice. It is proposed, that ACE can be likened to an Oulipian constraint and thus the experimental output will allow the reader to choose a path through the narrative, exploring new