Computational Creativity (or CC) is a discipline with its roots in Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cognitive Science, Engineering, Design, Psychology, and Philosophy that explores the potential for computers to be autonomous creators in their own right. ICCC is an annual conference that welcomes papers on different aspects of CC, on systems that exhibit varying degrees of creative autonomy, on frameworks that offer greater clarity for thinking about machine (and human) creativity, on methodologies for building or evaluating CC systems, on approaches to teaching CC in schools and universities or to promoting societal uptake of CC as a field and as a technology, and so on.

Themes and Topics
Original research contributions are solicited in all areas related to Computational Creativity research and practice, including, but not limited to:
- Applications that address creativity in specific domains such as music, language, narrative, poetry, games, visual arts, graphic design, product design, architecture, entertainment, education, mathematical invention, scientific discovery, and programming.
- Applications and frameworks that allow for co-creativity between humans and machines, in which the machine is more than a mere tool and takes on significant creative responsibility for itself.
- Metrics, frameworks, formalisms and methodologies for the evaluation of creativity in computational systems, and for the evaluation of how such systems are perceived in society.
- Computational paradigms for understanding creativity, including heuristic search, analogical and meta-level reasoning, and representation.
- Resource development and data gathering/knowledge curation for creative systems, especially resources and data collections that are scalable, extensible and freely available as open-source materials.
- Ethical considerations in the design, deployment or testing of CC systems, as well as studies that explore the societal impact of CC systems.
- Cognitive and psychological computational models of creativity, and their relation with existing cognitive architectures and psychological accounts.
- Computational models of social aspects of creativity, including the relationship between individual and social creativity, diffusion of ideas, collaboration and creativity, formation of creative teams, and creativity in social settings.
- Perspectives on CC which draw from philosophical and/or sociological studies in a context of creative intelligent systems.
- CC in the cloud, including how web services can be used to foster unexpected creative behaviour in computational systems.
- Big data approaches to CC.
- Debate papers that raise new issues or reopen seemingly settled ones. Provocations that question the foundations of the discipline or throw new light on old work are also welcome.

Paper Types
We welcome the submission of any of the following types of papers: Nuggets and Gems, Debate Sparks, CC Translations, CC Bridges, Late Breaking Results, Pilot Studies, Grand Challenges, Meta-Perspectives, Field Reports, and Event Reports.

Important Dates
Submissions due: June 21, 2021
Acceptance notification: July 30, 2021
Camera-ready copies due: August 6, 2021
Conference: September 14-18, 2021

*** All authors of accepted papers can opt to also show a demo of their system or prototype during the conference. You will be asked if you are interested in this option during the submission process ***

More Information
More information on the paper types and submission process can be found at https://computationalcreativity.net/iccc21/call-for-short-papers/

Organizing Committee
General Chair: Rafael Pérez y Pérez
Local Chair: Wendy Aguilar
Program Chairs: Andrés Gómez de Silva Garza, Tony Veale

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