Peer-Reviewed Publications and Presentations

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2011 Sloboda and Parker's recall paradigm for melodic memory: a new, computational perspective
Müllensiefen, Wiggins, 2011 - Music and the Mind: Essays in honour of John Sloboda, Oxford University Press.
Computer Models of (Music) Cognition.
Wiggins, 2011 - in Rebuschat, Rohrmeier, Cross & Hawkins (eds.), Language and Music as Cognitive Systems. Oxford University Press (in press)
"I let the music speak": cross-domain application of a cognitive model of musical learning.
Wiggins, 2011 - in Rebuschat & Williams (eds.), Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition. Mouton De Gruyter (in press).
Auditory Expectation: The Information Dynamics of Music Perception and Cognition.
Pearce, Wiggins, 2011 - Topics in Cognitive Science (in press).
Defining Inspiration? Modelling non-conscious creative process.
Wiggins, 2011 - in Collins, D. (ed.), The Act of Musical Composition: Studies in the Creative Process, Ashgate, in press.
2010 Development of Techniques for the Computational Modelling of Harmony.
Whorley, Wiggins, Rhodes, Pearce, 2010 - In Ventura et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2010
Live coding towards computational creativity.
McLean, Wiggins, 2010 - In Ventura et al. (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2010
Unsupervised Statistical Learning Underpins Computational, Behavioural and Neural Manifestations of Musical Expectation.
Pearce, Herrojo Ruiz, Kapasi, Wiggins, Bhattacharya, 2010 - Neuroimage, 50(1):303-314.
Petrol: Reactive Pattern Language for Improvised Music.
McLean, Wiggins, 2010 - In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, 2010
On the non-existence of Music: Why Music Theory is a figment of the imagination.
Wiggins, Müllensiefen, Pearce, 2010 - Musicae Scientiae, Discussion Forum 5, 231-255.
Cue Abstraction, Paradigmatic Analysis and Information Dynamics: Towards Music Analysis by Cognitive Model
Wiggins, 2010 - Musicae Scientiae, Special issue: Understanding Musical Structure and Form: papers in honour of Irène Deliège. 307-332.
I Let the Music Speak: A Model of Music Perception that Predicts Speech Segmentation.
Wiggins, 2010 - Proceedings of the CogSci 2010.
A cross-domain model? Grouping of phonemes into syllables by a model of melodic segmentation.
Wiggins, 2010 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition.
Tidal - Pattern Language for the Live Coding of Music.
McLean, Wiggins, 2010 - Proceedings of the Conference on Sound and Music Computing.
Visualisation of Live Code.
McLean, Griffiths, Collins, Wiggins, 2010 - Proceedings of the Conference on Electronic Visualisation and the Arts.
Bricolage Programming in the Creative Arts.
McLean Wiggins, 2010 - Proceedings of the 22nd Psychology of Programming Interest Group (PPIG).
Unifying conceptual spaces: Concept formation in musical creative systems
Forth, Wiggins, McLean, 2010 - Minds and Machines, 20(4):503-532.
The role of expectation and probabilistic learning in auditory boundary perception: A model comparison
Pearce, Müllensiefen, Wiggins, 2010 - Perception, 39, 1367-91.
Melodic Grouping in Music Information Retrieval: New Methods and Applications
Pearce, Müllensiefen, Wiggins, 2010 - Advances in Music Information Retrieval, Springer, Studies in Computational Intelligence, 274, 364-388.
2009 From Maladaptation to Competition to Cooperation in the Evolution of Musical Behaviour
Bown, Wiggins, 2009 - Musicae Scientiae, Special Issue on Evolution of Music, Vitouche (ed), pages 387-414. ESCOM
Computer-Representation of Music in the Research Environment.
Wiggins, 2009 - In Crawford & Gibson (eds.), Modern Methods for Musicology: Prospects, Proposals and Realities, pages 7-22. Oxford: Ashgate.
Computational Modelling of Music Cognition and Musical Creativity.
Wiggins, Pearce, Müllensiefen, 2009 - In Dean (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Computer Music. Chapter 19, pp. 383-420. Oxford University Press
An approach for identifying salient repetition in multidimensional representations of polyphonic music.
Forth, Wiggins, 2009 - In Chan, Daykin, Rahman (eds.), London Algorithmics 2008: Theory and Practice. Texts in Algorithmics Series, College Press
Words, Movement and Timbre.
McLean, Wiggins, 2009 - In Zahler, Dannenberg, (eds.), Proceedings of NIME 2009.
Information Theory and Musical Significance.
Wiggins, Gingras, Müllensiefen, Pearce, 2009 - In Proceedings of ESCOM 2009.
Unsupervised Statistical Learning in Melodic Expectation: Behavioural and Electrophysicological Support for a Computational Model.
Pearce, Herrojo Ruis, Kapas, Wiggins, Bhattacharya, 2009 - In Proceedings of ESCOM 2009.
Testing different models of melodic contour.
Müllenseifen, Bonometti, Stewart, Wiggins, 2009 - In Proceedings of ESCOM 2009.
Formalizing Invariances for Content-based Music Retrieval
Lemström, Wiggins, 2009 - In Proceedings of ISMIR 2009.
Music and Text: Integrating Scholarly Literature into Music Datasets
Lewis, Lewis, Crawford, Wiggins, 2009 - In Proceedings of DRHA 2009.
Semantic Gap?? Schemantic Schmap!! Methodological Considerations in the Scientific Study of Music
Wiggins, 2009 - In Proceedings of IEEE AdMIRe 2009.
Patterns of movement in live languages
McLean, Wiggins, 2009 - In Proceedings of CHArt, 2009.
2008 Schenkerian Reduction as Search.
Marsden, Wiggins, 2008 - Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology, Thessaloniki, Greece.
An information-dynamic model of melodic segmentation.
Pearce, Müllensiefen, Wiggins, 2008 - International Workshop on Music and Machine Learning, Helsinki, Finland.
Meta-models of music cognition.
Pearce, Wiggins, 2008 - Music, Language and the Mind, Medford, MA.
Applying Tools from Natural Language Processing to Analysis of Harmony: A Bottom Up Approach.
Mauch, Müllensiefen, Dixon, Wiggins, 2008 - Music, Language and the Mind, Medford, MA.
Modelling Memory Responses in a Melody Recognition Task.
Halpern, Müllensiefen, Wiggins, 2008 - 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan
Polynomial Contour as a Core Feature for Representing Melodies.
Müllensiefen, Wiggins, 2008 - 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan
Perceptual Segmentation of Melodies: Ambiguity, Rules and Statistical Learning.
Pearce, Müllensiefen, Wiggins, Frieler, 2008 - 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan
Computational Modelling of the Cognition of Harmonic Movement.
Whorley, Pearce, Wiggins, 2008 - 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan
Can Statistical Language Models be Used for the Analysis of Harmonic Progressions?
Mauch, Müllensiefen, Dixon, Wiggins, 2008 - 10th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sapporo, Japan
Vocable Synthesis.
McLean, Wiggins, 2008 - International Computer Music Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Musical Creativity on the Conceptual Level.
Forth, McLean, Wiggins, 2008 - International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity, Madrid, Spain
High-level Feature Descriptors and Corpus-Based Musicology: Techniques for Modelling Music Cognition.
Müllensiefen, Wiggins, Lewis, 2008 - in Schneider (ed.), Hamburger Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft 24 - Systematic and Comparative Musicology: Concepts, Methods, Findings
A Comparison of Statistical and Rule-Based Models of Melodic Segmentation.
Pearce, Müllensiefen, Wiggins, 2008 - in Bello & Chew (eds.), International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)
2007 Models of Musical Similarity.
Wiggins, 2007 - Musicae Scientiae, Discussion Forum 4a, 315-338
Towards Greater Objectivity in Music Theory: Information-Dynamic Analysis of Minimalist Music.
Potter, Wiggins, Pearce, 2007 - Musicae Scientiae, 11(2), 295-324
Information Dynamics of Music: a case study of Philip Glass' Two Pages
Potter, Wiggins, Pearce, 2007 - 14th Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900, York, UK, 2007
Where's the Chorus? A Computational Approach to the Automatic Segmentation of Pop Songs
Müllensiefen, Lewis, Wiggins, 2007 - Fifth Biennial International Association for the Study of Popular Music Conference, Mexico City, Mexico, 2007
Music: Evolution without Adaptation
Bown, Wiggins, 2007 - Music and Evolutionary Thought, Durham, UK, 2007
Information Dynamics in Music Perception and Cognition
Pearce, Wiggins, 2007 - Music and Language as Cognitive Processes, Cambridge, UK, 2007
Segmenting pop melodies: A model comparison approach
Müllensiefen, Pearce, Wiggins, Frieler, 2007 - SMPC'07, Montreal, Canada, 2007
Biocultural Models of Interaction Between Musical and Non-Musical Forms of Behaviour in Evolution
Bown, Wiggins, 2007 - SMPC'07, Montreal, Canada, 2007
Systematic Evaluation and Improvement of Statistical Models of Harmony
Whorley, Wiggins, Pearce, 2007 - CC'07, London, UK, 2007
On the Meaning of Life (in Artificial Life Approaches to Music)
Bown, Wiggins, 2007 - CC'07, London, UK, 2007
Evaluating Cognitive Models of Musical Composition
Pearce, Wiggins, 2007 - CC'07, London, UK, 2007
Feature description and corpus-based musicology: Tools for modelling music cognition
Müllensiefen, Lewis, Wiggins, 2007 - IMS'07, Zürich, Switzerland, 2007
Evaluating a Chord Labelling Algorithm
Müllensiefen, Lewis, Rhodes, Wiggins, 2007 - ISMIR'07, Vienna, Austria, 2007
Methodological Considerations in Studies of Musical Similarity
Allan, Wiggins, 2007 - ISMIR'07, Vienna, Austria, 2007
How Many Beans make Five? The Consensus Problem in Music-Genre Classification and a New Evaluation Method for Single-Genre Categorisation Sysytems
Craft, Wiggins, Crawford, 2007 - ISMIR'07, Vienna, Austria, 2007
Review Article: "Computer Models of Musical Creativity" by David Cope
Wiggins, 2007 - Literary and Linguistic Computing, 23(1):109-116, 2007
Apollonius diagrams and the Representation of Sounds and Music
McLean, LeyMarie, Wiggins, 2007 - 4th International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering
2006 Expectation in melody: The influence of context and learning.
Pearce, Wiggins, 2006 - Music Perception 23(5), pp. 377-406
A Preliminary Framework for Description, Analysis and Comparison of Creative Systems.
Wiggins, 2006 - Journal of Knowledge Based Systems 19(7), pp. 449-458
Searching for Computational Creativity.
Wiggins, 2006 - New Generation Computing 24(3), pp. 209-222
(improved/extended version of 2005 paper)
The Information Dynamics of Melodic Boundary Detection.
Pearce, Wiggins, 2006 - International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Bologna, Italy
A Fast, Randomised, Maximum Subset Matching Algorithm for Document-Level Music Retrieval.
Clifford, Christodoulakis, Crawford, Meredith, Wiggins, 2006 - International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), Victoria, Canada
More Evidence for A Computational Memetics Approach to Music Information and New Interpretations of An Aesthetic Fitness Measure.
Chan, Wiggins, 2006 - International Joint Workshop on Computational Creativity, Trento, Italy
Chorale harmonization: A view from a search control perspective.
Phon-Amnuaisuk, Smaill, Wiggins, 2006 - Journal of New Music Research, 35:4, 279-305
2005 Searching for Computational Creativity.
Wiggins, 2005 - IJCAI'05 Workshop on Computational Creativity
A Computational Memetics Approach to Music Information and Aesthetic Fitness.
Chan, Wiggins, 2005 - IJCAI'05 Workshop on Computational Creativity
Modelling Musical Behaviour in a Cultural-Evolutionary System.
Bown, Wiggins, 2005 - IJCAI'05 Workshop on Computational Creativity
Electroacoustic Performance Interfaces that Learn from their Users.
Melo, Drever, Wiggins, 2005 - International Computer Music Conference
Comparing Pitch Spelling Systems.
Meredith, Wiggins, 2005 - International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR)
Dimensionality Reduction in Harmonic Modeling for Music Information Retrieval.
Pickens, Crawford, Wiggins, 2005 - Conference on Computer Modelling and Music Retrieval
Questions of Musical Resemblance: `families' of pieces in an electronic corpus.
Lewis, Gale, Crawford, Wiggins, 2005 - 10th Conference on Digital Resources for the Humanities
Abstracting Musical Queries: Towards a Musicologist's Workbench.
Lewis, Crawford, Wiggins, Gale, 2005 - Conference on Computer Modelling and Music Retrieval
Methods for combining statistical models of music.
Pearce, Conklin, Wiggins, 2005 - Music Modelling and Retrieval, ed. Will, pp 295-312, Springer-Verlag
2004 Rethinking Gestalt influences on melodic expectancy.
Pearce, Wiggins, 2004 - Proceedings of ICMPC-8, ed. S. D. Lipscomb, R. Ashley, R. O. Gjerdingen and P. Webster, pp 367-371
Improved Methods for Statistical Modelling of Monophonic Music.
Pearce, Wiggins, 2004 - Journal of New Music Research, 33(4), 367-385.
2003 Memory and Melodic Density: A Model for Melody Segmentation
Ferrand, Nelson, Wiggins, 2003 - Proceedings of the XIV Colloquium on Musical Informatics (XIV CIM 2003), ed. Bernardini, Giomi and Giosmin, pp 95-98, Florence, Italy
A Connectionist Approach to Driving Chord Progressions Using Tension
Melo, Wiggins, 2003 - Proceedings of the AISB'03 Symposium on Creativity in Arts and Science, ed. Gervás and Colton, Aberystwyth, Wales
An empirical comparison of the performance of PPM variants on a prediction task with monophonic music.
Pearce, Wiggins, 2003 - Proceedings of the AISB'03 Symposium on Creativity in Arts and Science, ed. Gervás and Colton, Aberystwyth, Wales
Characterising Creative Systems
Wiggins, 2003 - Proceedings of the IJCAI'03 Workshop on Creative Systems, ed. Bento, Cardoso & Gero, IJCAI
Unsupervised Learning of Melodic Segmentation: A Memory-based Approach
Ferrand, Nelson, Wiggins, 2003 - Proceedings of 5th Triennial Conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM5), publ. ESCOM
Algorithms for discovering repeated patterns in multidimensional representations of polyphonic music.
Meredith, Lemström, Wiggins, 2003 - Cambridge Music Processing Colloquium
2002 Motivations and methodologies for automation of the compositional process
Pearce, Meredith & Wiggins, 2002 - Musicae Scientiae, 6(2), 119-147, publ. ESCOM
Understanding (Musical) Creativity using AI methods
Wiggins, 2002 - AI Symposium at the ESCOM 10th Anniversary Conference on Musical Creativity, Liège, Belgium
Computational Mimetics of Music
Chan & Wiggins, 2002 - ESCOM 10th Anniversary Conference on Musical Creativity, Liège, Belgium
An Experiment in the Automatic Creation of Music which has Specific Emotional Content
Rutherford & Wiggins, 2002 - 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Australia
A Computational Model for Chorale Harmonisation in the Style of J. S. Bach
Phon-Amnuaisuk, Smaill & Wiggins, 2002 - 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Australia
Aspects of a cognitive theory of creativity in musical composition
Pearce & Wiggins, 2002 - 2nd International Workshop on Creative Systems, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Lyon, France
Algorithms for discovering repeated patterns in representations of polyphonic music
Meredith, Lemström & Wiggins, 2002 - Journal of New Music Research, 31(4), pp. 321-345.
SIA(M)ESE: An Algorithm for Transposition Invariant, Polyphonic Content-Based Music Retrieval
Wiggins, Lemström & Meredith, 2002 - International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, Paris, France
A Probabilistic Model for Melody Segmentation
Ferrand, Nelson & Wiggins, 2002 - Electronic Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Music and Artificial Intelligence (ICMAI 2002), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
2001 Towards A Framework for the Evaluation of Machine Compositions
Pearce & Wiggins, 2001 - Proceedings of the AISB'01 Symposium on AI and Creativity in Arts and Science, ed. Wiggins, AISB
Pattern induction and matching in polyphonic music and other multidimensional datasets
Meredith, Wiggins & Lemström, 2001 - Proceedings of the SCI 2001 Conference, Ordlando, Florida
Towards a more precise characterisation of Creativity in AI
Wiggins, 2001 - Proceedings of the ICCBR 2001 Workshop on Creative Systems, Vancouver, British Columbia
A Three-layer Approach for Music Retrieval in Large Databases
Lemström, Wiggins, Meredith 2001 - poster at the 2001 International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, Bloomington, Indiana
2000 Musical Knowledge: what can Artificial Intelligence bring to the musician?
Wiggins & Smaill, 2000 - chapter in collection: ``Readings in Music and Artificial Intelligence", ed. Miranda, Harwood Academic Publishers
A System for the Concerned Teaching of Musical Aural Skills
Wiggins & Trewin, 2000 - ITS'2000, Montreal, Canada
Representing Trees with Constraints
Curry, Wiggins & Hayes - CL'2000, London, England
1999 Evolutionary Methods for Musical Composition
Wiggins, Papadopoulos, Phon-Amnuaisuk & Tuson, 1999 - International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems
A New Approach to Cooperative Performance: A Preliminary Experiment
Curry & Wiggins, 1999 - International Journal of Computing Anticipatory Systems
Evolving Musical Harmonisation
Phon-Amnuaisuk, Tuson & Wiggins, 1999 - ICANNGA'99, Slovenia
Statistical Learning of Harmonic Movement
Ponsford, Wiggins & Mellish, 1999 - Journal of New Music Research
Link to archive of results from this paper.
The Four Part Harmonisation Problem: A Comparison between Genetic Algorithms and a Rule-Based System
Phon-Amnuaisuk & Wiggins, 1999 - Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Musical Creativity, publ. AISB
AI Methods for Algorithmic Composition: A Survey, A Critical View, and Future Prospects
Papadopoulos & Wiggins, 1999 - Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Musical Creativity, 110-117, publ. AISB
Computers in Music Education
Brandão, Pain & Wiggins, 1999 - Proceedings of the AISB'99 Symposium on Musical Creativity, publ. AISB
Heat Exchanger Network Retrofit by Constraint Logic Programming
Abbass, Wiggins, Lakshmanan & Morton, 1999 - Journal of Computers in Chemical Engineering
Constraint Logic Programming for Chemical Process Synthesis
Abbass, Wiggins, Lakshmanan & Morton, 1999 - PACLP'99, London, England
1998 The Use of Constraint Systems for Musical Composition
Wiggins, 1998 - ECAI98 workshop on Constraints and Artistic Applications, Brighton
A Genetic Algorithm for the Generation of Jazz Melodies
Papdopoulos & Wiggins, 1998 - STeP'98, Jyväskylä, Finland
Real-Time Music Generation for a Virtual Environment
Robertson, de Quincey, Stapleford & Wiggins, 1998 - ECAI98 workshop on AI/Alife and Entertainment, Brighton, England
Music, Syntax, and the Meaning of ``Meaning''
Wiggins, 1998 - Symposium on Music and Computers, Corfu, Greece
Automated generation of musical harmony: what's missing?
Wiggins, 1998
Integrating optimisation and search: An Intelligent Tool for Chemical Process Synthesis
Abbass, Wiggins, Lakshmanan & Morton, 1998
1994 Improving the Whelk system: a type-theoretic reconstruction
Wiggins, 1994 - LoPSTr94, Pisa
Mollusc: A General Proof-Development Shell for Sequent-based Logics
Richards, Kraan, Smaill & Wiggins, 1994 - CADE12
1993 Hierarchical Music Representation for Composition and Analysis
Smaill, Wiggins & Harris, 1993 - Computing and the Humanities Journal
Representing Music Symbolically
Harris, Smaill & Wiggins, 1993 - IX CIM, Genova
Music Representation - between the musician and the computer
Smaill, Wiggins & Miranda, 1993 - World Conference on AI and Education workshop on Music Education, Edinburgh
Surveying Musical Representation Systems: A Framework for Evaluation
Wiggins, Miranda, Smaill & Harris, 1993 - Computer Music Journal
Guiding Synthesis Proofs
Lombart, Wiggins & Deville, 1993 - LoPSTr93, Louvain-la-Neuve
1992 The Reactive Accompanist: Applying Subsumption Architecture to Software Design
Bryson, Smaill & Wiggins, 1992
Negation and Control in Automatically Generated Logic Programs
Wiggins, 1992 - META92, Uppsala
Synthesis and Transformation of Logic Programs in the Whelk Proof Development System
Wiggins, 1992 - JICSLP92, Washington, DC
1991 Synthesis and Transformation of Logic Programs by Constructive, Inductive Proof
Bundy, Hesketh, Kraan & Wiggins, 1991 - LoPSTr91, Manchester
1990 The Improvement of Prolog Program Efficiency by Compiling Control: A Proof-Theoretic View
Wiggins, 1990 - META90, Leuven
1989 Representing Music for Analysis and Composition
Wiggins, Harris & Smaill, 1989 - IJCAI89 Workshop on Music and Artificial Intelligence, Detroit

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