Can you imagine... a language for combinatorial creativity?
Combinatorial creativity combines existing concepts in a novel way in order to produce new concepts. For example, we can imagine jewelry that measures blood pressure. For this, we would combine the concept of jewelry with the capabilities of medical devices. Combinatorial creativity can be used to develop new business ideas, to find plots for books or movies, or simply to disrupt conventional thinking. In this paper, we propose a formal language for combinatorial creativity, based on description logics. We show that our language can be used to model existing inventions and (to a limited degree) to generate new concepts.
Publications
- Can you imagine... a language for combinatorial creativity?
Fabian M. Suchanek, Colette Menard, Meghyn Bienvenu, and Cyril Chapellier
Full paper at ISWC 2016 - A language for combinatorial creativity
Fabian M. Suchanek, Colette Menard, Meghyn Bienvenu, and Cyril Chapellier
Technical Report - What if machines could be creative?
Fabian M. Suchanek, Colette Menard, Meghyn Bienvenu, and Cyril Chapellier
Demo at ISWC 2016