Technical report : a language for combinatorial creativity Rapport technique : un langage pour la créativité combinatoire

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. This report complements our paper at the ISWC 2016 conference [22].