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On Computational Creativity, ‘Inventing’ Theorem Proofs

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We provide a precise illustration of what can be the idea of “computational creativity”, that is, the whole set of the methods by which a computer may simulate creativity. This paper is centered on the relationship between computational creativity and theorem proving. The basic tool for this kind of computational creativity is what we call an ‘asset generator’ a specification of which is given in section 5, followed by a short description of our methodology for the generation of assets in theorem proving. In a sense, our ‘asset generation methodology’ relies essentially on making explicit the logician’s good sense while performing a recursion constructive proof. Our contribution is making explicit this good sense and making a systematic methodology of it.

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Fraňová, M., Kodratoff, Y. (2009). On Computational Creativity, ‘Inventing’ Theorem Proofs. In: Rauch, J., Raś, Z.W., Berka, P., Elomaa, T. (eds) Foundations of Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04125-9_60

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