Dan Ventura

Orcid: 0000-0002-3111-2238

Affiliations:
  • Brigham Young University, Department of Computer Science, Provo, UT, USA (PhD 1998)
  • Pennsylvania State University, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University Park, PA, USA


According to our database1, Dan Ventura authored at least 139 papers between 1995 and 2024.

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2024
Introducing UNIQuE: The Unconventional Noiseless Intermediate Quantum Emulator.
CoRR, 2024

Musical Phrase Segmentation via Grammatical Induction.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024

Operationalizing Essential Characteristics of Creativity in a Computational System for Music Composition.
Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2024

2023
Drawing with Reframer: Emergence and Control in Co-Creative AI.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2023

Gaining Expertise through Task Re-Representation.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2023

The Emperor's New Co-Author.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2023

Constraints as Catalysts: A (De)Construction of Codenames as a Creative Task.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2023

Are Language Models Unsupervised Multi-domain CC Systems?
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2023

Transformational Creativity Through the Lens of Quality-Diversity.
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2023

2022
Steerable Music Generation which Satisfies Long-Range Dependency Constraints.
Trans. Int. Soc. Music. Inf. Retr., 2022

Symbolic Semantic Memory in Transformer Language Models.
Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2022

Competitive Language Games as Creative Tasks with Well-Defined Goals.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, June 27, 2022

Ethics, Aesthetics and Computational Creativity.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, June 27, 2022

Open Computational Creativity Problems in Computational Theory.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, June 27, 2022

2021
Multi-agent Story-based Settlement Generation.
Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2021

Ideation via Critic-Based Exploration of Generator Latent Space.
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2021

Inferring Structural Constraints in Musical Sequences via Multiple Self-Alignment.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2020
Humans in the Black Box: A New Paradigm for Evaluating the Design of Creative Systems.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2020

Creating Six-word Stories via Inferred Linguistic and Semantic Formats.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2020

A Speculative Exploration of the Role of Dialogue in Human-ComputerCo-creation.
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2020

What Happens When a Computer Joins the Group?
Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2020

2019
Towards transformational creation of novel songs.
Connect. Sci., 2019

Dynamically Scoring Rhymes with Phonetic Features and Sequence Alignment.
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, 2019

Adapting Standard External Clustering Metrics for Repetitive, Noisy Observations.
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Conference On Machine Learning And Applications, 2019

Modeling Knowledge, Expression, and Aesthetics via Sensory Grounding.
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2019

Autonomous Intentionality in Computationally Creative Systems.
Proceedings of the Computational Creativity, 2019

2018
Data Musicalization.
ACM Trans. Multim. Comput. Commun. Appl., 2018

An HBPL-based Approach to the Creation of Six-word Stories.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2018

Ethics as Aesthetic: A Computational Creativity Approach to Ethical Behavior.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2018

Explainability: An Aesthetic for Aesthetics in Computational Creative Systems.
Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2018

Ethics as Aesthetic for Artificial General Intelligence.
Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI Spring Symposia, 2018

2017
Autoencoder-Enhanced Sum-Product Networks.
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2017

Online Structure-Search for Sum-Product Networks.
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2017

How to Build a CC System.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2017

Computational Creativity via Human-Level Concept Learning.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2017

Text Transformation Via Constraints and Word Embedding.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2017

Teaching Computational Creativity.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2017

Semantic Style Creation.
Proceedings of the Workshops of the The Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2017

2016
An efficient feature descriptor based on synthetic basis functions and uniqueness matching strategy.
Comput. Vis. Image Underst., 2016

Musical Motif Discovery from Non-Musical Inspiration Sources.
Comput. Entertain., 2016

ScaffoldScaffolder: solving contig orientation via bidirected to directed graph reduction.
Bioinform., 2016

Mere Generation: Essential Barometer or Dated Concept?
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2016

Before A Computer Can Draw, It Must First Learn To See.
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2016

Beyond computational intelligence to computational creativity in games.
Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games, 2016

Creating Images by Learning Image Semantics Using Vector Space Models.
Proceedings of the Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2016

2015
A coherent mathematical characterization of isotope trace extraction, isotopic envelope extraction, and LC-MS correspondence.
BMC Bioinform., 2015

LC-MS alignment in theory and practice: a comprehensive algorithmic review.
Briefings Bioinform., 2015

Greedy Structure Search for Sum-Product Networks.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2015

Data-Driven Kernels via Semi-supervised Clustering on the Manifold.
Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2015

Accounting for Bias in the Evaluation of Creative Computational Systems: An Assessment of DARCI.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2015

The man behind the curtain: Overcoming skepticism about creative computers.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2015

Imagining Imagination: A Computational Framework Using Associative Memory Models and Vector Space Models.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2015

The Painting Fool Sees! New Projects with the Automated Painter.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2015

2014
Conveying Semantics through Visual Metaphor.
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol., 2014

Efficient Tree-Based Feature Descriptor and Matching Algorithm.
J. Aerosp. Inf. Syst., 2014

TreeBASIS Feature Descriptor and Its Hardware Implementation.
Int. J. Reconfigurable Comput., 2014

Improving Multilabel Classification by Avoiding Implicit Negativity with Incomplete Data.
Comput. Intell., 2014

Proteomics, lipidomics, metabolomics: a mass spectrometry tutorial from a computer scientist's point of view.
BMC Bioinform., 2014

Controlling for confounding variables in MS-omics protocol: why modularity matters.
Briefings Bioinform., 2014

Matching Affine Features with the SYBA Feature Descriptor.
Proceedings of the Advances in Visual Computing - 10th International Symposium, 2014

Using Spectral Features to Improve Sentiment Analysis.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2014

Improving Spectral Learning by Using Multiple Representations.
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2014

Autonomously Managing Competing Objectives to Improve the Creation and Curation of Artifacts.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2014

Musical Motif Discovery in Non-musical Media.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2014

You Can't Know my Mind: A Festival of Computational Creativity.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2014

Nehovah: A Neologism Creator Nomen Ipsum.
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2014

Can a Computer be Lucky? And Other Ridiculous Questions Posed by Computational Creativity.
Proceedings of the Artificial General Intelligence - 7th International Conference, 2014

2013
The Nature-Inspired BASIS Feature Descriptor for UAV Imagery and Its Hardware Implementation.
IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. Video Technol., 2013

Adapting ADtrees for improved performance on large datasets with high-arity features.
Knowl. Inf. Syst., 2013

Rubabel: Wrapping OpenBabel with Ruby.
J. Cheminformatics, 2013

Novel Feature Descriptor for Low-Resource Embedded Vision Sensors for Micro Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle Applications.
J. Aerosp. Inf. Syst., 2013

A general model for continuous noninvasive pulmonary artery pressure estimation.
Comput. Biol. Medicine, 2013

Novel algorithms and the benefits of comparative validation.
Bioinform., 2013

Statistical agglomeration: peak summarization for direct infusion lipidomics.
Bioinform., 2013

Semantic Models as a Combination of Free Association Norms and Corpus-Based Correlations.
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Seventh International Conference on Semantic Computing, 2013

An Empirical Comparison of Spectral Learning Methods for Classification.
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2013

Autonomously Communicating Conceptual Knowledge Through Visual Art.
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2013

Automatic Generation of Music for Inducing Physiological Response.
Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

2012
A direct boosting algorithm for the k-nearest neighbor classifier via local warping of the distance metric.
Pattern Recognit. Lett., 2012

Phylogenetic search through partial tree mixing.
BMC Bioinform., 2012

Learning the Architecture of Sum-Product Networks Using Clustering on Variables.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 25: 26th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems 2012. Proceedings of a meeting held December 3-6, 2012

Automatic Composition from Non-musical Inspiration Sources.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2012

Soup Over Bean of Pure Joy: Culinary Ruminations of an Artificial Chef.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2012

Automatic Generation of Melodic Accompaniments for Lyrics.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2012

Algorithmically Flexible Style Composition Through Multi-Objective Fitness Functions.
Proceedings of the Musical Metacreation, 2012

Rational Irrationality.
Proceedings of the Game Theory for Security, 2012

2011
Manifold Learning by Graduated Optimization.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part B, 2011

A SOM-based multimodal system for musical query-by-content.
Proceedings of the 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2011

No Free Lunch in the Search for Creativity.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2011

Autonomously Creating Quality Images.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2011

Automatic Generation of Emotionally-Targeted Soundtracks.
Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2011

Fitness function: turning the loop inside out.
Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 2011

An artistic dialogue with the artificial.
Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, 2011

2010
Improving liquid state machines through iterative refinement of the reservoir.
Neurocomputing, 2010

Cognitive and Behavioral Model Ensembles for Autonomous Virtual Characters.
Comput. Intell., 2010

Noninvasive diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension using heart sound analysis.
Comput. Biol. Medicine, 2010

Establishing Appreciation in a Creative System.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2010

Automatic Generation of Music for Inducing Emotive Response.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2010

2009
Improving the separability of a reservoir facilitates learning transfer.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2009

Music recommendation and query-by-content using Self-Organizing Maps.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2009

Search Techniques for Fourier-Based Learning.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2009, 2009

Real-time Automatic Price Prediction for eBay Online Trading.
Proceedings of the Twenty-First Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2009

Super-resolution via recapture and Bayesian effect modeling.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009), 2009

A sub-symbolic model of the cognitive processes of re-representation and insight.
Proceedings of the 7th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, Berkeley, 2009

2008
Demonstration-Based Behavior Programming for Embodied Virtual Agents.
Comput. Intell., 2008

AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia Reports.
AI Mag., 2008

Sentiment Regression: Using Real-Valued Scores to Summarize Overall Document Sentiment.
Proceedings of the 2th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2008), 2008

Preface.
Proceedings of the Creative Intelligent Systems, 2008

Organizing Committee.
Proceedings of the Creative Intelligent Systems, 2008

Sub-symbolic Re-representation to Facilitate Learning Transfer.
Proceedings of the Creative Intelligent Systems, 2008

Data-Driven Programming and Behavior for Autonomous Virtual Characters.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008

Adapting ADtrees for High Arity Features.
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2008

2007
A data-dependent distance measure for transductive instance-based learning.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2007

Robust multi-modal biometric fusion via multiple SVMs.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2007

ADtrees for sequential data and n-gram Counting.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, 2007

Iterative Non-linear Dimensionality Reduction with Manifold Sculpting.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 20, 2007

Predicting and Preventing Coordination Problems in Cooperative Q-learning Systems.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007, 2007

Learning Policies for Embodied Virtual Agents through Demonstration.
Proceedings of the IJCAI 2007, 2007

The Hough Transform's Implicit Bayesian Foundation.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, 2007

2006
Geometric Task Decomposition in a Multi-Agent Environment.
Appl. Artif. Intell., 2006

Preparing More Effective Liquid State Machines Using Hebbian Learning.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2006

Spatiotemporal Pattern Recognition via Liquid State Machines.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2006

Learning a Rendezvous Task with Dynamic Joint Action Perception.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2006

Learning Quantum Operators From Quantum State Pairs.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, 2006

2005
Fast and Robust Incremental Action Prediction for Interactive Agents.
Comput. Intell., 2005

A practical generalization of Fourier-based learning.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning, 2005

2003
Training a Quantum Neural Network.
Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16 [Neural Information Processing Systems, 2003

Dynamic Joint Action Perception for Q-Learning Agents.
Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, 2003

2002
Pattern Classification Using a Quantum System.
Proceedings of the 6th Joint Conference on Information Science, 2002

2000
Quantum associative memory.
Inf. Sci., 2000

Quantum computing and neural information processing.
Inf. Sci., 2000

Quantum associative memory with distributed queries.
Inf. Sci., 2000

1999
The robustness of relaxation rates in constraint satisfaction networks.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference Neural Networks, 1999

A neural model of centered tri-gram speech recognition.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference Neural Networks, 1999

Implementing competitive learning in a quantum system.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference Neural Networks, 1999

A Quantum Associative Memory Based on Grover's Algorithm.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms, 1999

1997
An Artificial Neuron with Quantum Mechanical Properties.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms, 1997

1996
Robust optimization using training set evolution.
Proceedings of International Conference on Neural Networks (ICNN'96), 1996

1995
Using Evolutionary Computation to Generate Training Set Data for Neural Networks.
Proceedings of the Artificial Neural Nets and Genetic Algorithms, 1995


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