A fundamental challenge for economics and the social sciences is the development of models of creativity and innovative activity, spurring innovation and cultural development, across all fields. Originality is rooted in distinctiveness: an individual comes to make original, even unique contributions because in some way he or she is different from others and has different experiences, thus is ab...

Change Point Discovery (CPD) and Constrained Motif Discovery (CMD) are two essential problems in data mining with applications in many fields including robotics, economics, neuroscience and other fields. In this paper, we show that these two problems are related and report the development of a MATLAB Toolbox (CPMD) that encapsulates several useful algorithms including new variants to solve thes...