Modelling divergent production: A multi-domain approach

This paper presents an ongoing Ph.D. work on the area of Cognitive Modelling and, more specifically, about computational applications of theories of creativity. Without making claims to psychological views or results related to the mentioned theories, this work is concerned with a search for "different" solutions in a heterogeneous knowledge base composed of structures from a variety of domains. These structures and work upon them, in addition to a computational model of creative production, which is derived from the theory of divergent production [4], form the basis of this work. Its first applicational goal is to implement a system that generates musical ideas recurring to high-level abstractions from other domains (visual arts, story plots, architecture). Part of this has already been implemented and first results obtained. The overall architecture is described in the present paper.