Towards a Flowcharting System for Automated Process Invention

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  • Simon Colton
  • John Charnley
چکیده

Ironically, while automated programming has had a long and varied history in Artificial Intelligence research, automating the creative art of programming has rarely been studied within Computational Creativity research. In many senses, software writing software represents a very exciting potential avenue for research, as it addresses directly issues related to novelty, surprise, innovation at process level and the framing of activities. One reason for the lack of research in this area is the difficulty inherent in getting software to generate code. Therefore, it seems sensible to start investigating how software can innovate at the process level with an approach less than full programming, and we have chosen the classic approach to process design afforded by flowcharts. Our aim is to provide a system simple enough to be used by non-experts to craft generative flowcharts, indeed, simple enough for the software itself to create flowcharts which represent novel, and hopefully interesting new processes. We are currently in the fourth iteration of development, having found various difficulties with three previous approaches, ranging from flexibility and expressiveness of the flowcharts to the mismatching of inputs with outputs, the storage of data between runs, and the ability to handle programmatic constructs such as conditionals and loops. In our current approach, we represent a process as a script, onto which a flowchart can be grafted. We believe this offers the best balance of flexibility, expressiveness and usability, and will pave the way to the automatic generation of scripts in the next development stage. We have so far implemented the natural language processing flowchart nodes required to model aspects of a previous poetry generation approach and a previous concept formation approach. The Flow System

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تاریخ انتشار 2013