Preface

In recent years, the computerization of society has opened the door to the automation of information processes. Artificial intelligence, a subfield of computer sciences, has been tremendously successful at endowing machines with autonomous and proactive behaviors to achieve tasks that rely on intelligence when done by humans. As a result, machines are everywhere: omnipresent and unavoidable. Computational creativity is a new and fast growing field that is exploring the automation of creative processes. It investigates creativity as it is (striving to understand and simulate human creativity) as well as creativity as it could be (processes that we know humans to be incapable of, at least without machines).