We consider a combination of two recent proposals for characterizing computational creativity and explore the sufficiency of the resultant framework. We do this in the form of a gedanken experiment designed to expose the nature of the framework, what it has to say about computational creativity, how it might be improved and what questions this raises.

Quantum cryptography is a topic of considerable interest. A simple and robust experiment theory for senior level undergraduate investigation quantum key distribution are described. In the proposed experiment, principles from BB84 protocol, used in cryptography, emulated using an optical apparatus computational scripts independently.

This paper presents first steps towards a simple, robust computational model of automatic melody identification. Based on results from music psychology that indicate a relationship between melodic complexity and a listener’s attention, we postulate a relationship between musical complexity and the probability of a musical line to be perceived as the melody. We introduce a simple measure of melo...

A new approach for aiding the decision making process on Verbal Decision Analysis and basically structured on ZAPROS III method is proposed, aiming the presentation of complete and satisfactory results to the decision maker by reducing the incomparability cases between alternatives. A tool applying the methodology was developed. Optimizations were done to the original method through some differ...

The human ability to accurately estimate time intervals in the order of 0 to 20 seconds can be explained by two seemingly incompatible theories: the internal clock and the attentional counter theory. Based on a dual timing task experiment we conclude that a symbiosis of both theories is necessary to explain all the phenomena found in our experiment and in the experiments we review. This conclus...

Several hundred organizations are now using prediction markets to forecast sales, project completion dates, and more. This number has been doubling annually for several years. Most, however, are simple prediction markets, with one market per number forecast, and several traders per market. In contrast, a single combinatorial prediction market lets a few traders manage an entire combinatorial sp...

This article describes computational modeling and two corresponding experimental investigations of the effects of symmetry, balance and quantity of construction elements on interface aesthetic judgments. In the first experiment, 30 black and white geometric images were developed by systematically varying these three attributes in order to validate computational aesthetic quantification algorith...

KoTOvsKY, LAUHA, and GENTNER, DEDRE. Comparison and Categorization in the Development of Relational Similarity. CHILD DEVELOPMENT, 1996, 67, 2797-2822. 4 experiments investigated the development of children's ability to recognize perceptual relational commonalities such as symmetry or monotonicity. In Experiment 1, 6and 8-year-olds were able to recognize higherorder relational similarity across...

Previous research on the effect of response set size on the interference resulting from processing in the Stroop task – a paradigmatic test of executive control – brought equivocal conclusions. In the present paper, we analyze what predictions regarding this effect should be drawn from the most influential computational models of the Stroop as well as from our own new model. Then we test these ...

In this paper we propose a novel strategy for selecting projection angles in binary tomography which yields significantly more accurate reconstructions than others. In contrast with previous works which are of experimental nature, the method we present is based on theoretical observations. We report on experiments for different phantom images to show the effectiveness and roboustness of our pro...