1. Computers and Creativity, Jon McCormack and Mark d’Inverno (eds), 441 pages, 2012, Springer.
An edited booked which took over several years of work looking at the relationship between computers and creativity that ended with myself and Jon setting out a roadmap of research issues in this field. It came from a workshop that Jon McCormack and I, along with Margaret Boden hosted in Daghstul in 2009 called “Computational Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach“.
“This book is a brilliant contribution to the literature on creativity in general and the role of computers for fostering and understanding creativity in particular. It presents first a wide range of fascinating projects in the visual arts and music before plunging into theoretical issues concerning the nature of aesthetics and the cognitive processes underlying creativity. Every contribution in this book contains diamonds of novel deep insight, fascinating exper-iments, and downright good ideas for future work. The cross references and links between the different articles, the added discussion, and the edited conversations between the authors make this book more than the sum of its parts. Computers have already shaken up how art is being conceived, produced and distributed, and this book shows that this evolution can and will go much further than what most people think. It is required reading for everyone involved in the creative arts and interested in the role of technology towards shaping its future.” Luc Steels [Former Head of Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Paris, France]
“A wonderful collection of articles from some of the best in the field. The book fantastically illustrates what an exciting time this is for the interaction between computers and the creative process. Computers are really starting to surprise the people who program them.” Marcus du Sautoy [Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at the University of Oxford]
“Full of information and insights about the creative partnerships between computers, artists and musicians, Computers and Creativity is a timely book that does not shy away from tackling tough questions like where the creativity lies in art made by machines and how improvisation between human and non-human performers can be modelled. Along the way the reader is challenged to rethink assumptions about creativity and question whether a future ‘genius’ or ‘virtuoso’ might emerge from code. The book will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the relationship between creativity and computation.” Jane Prophet [Professor of Art and Interdisciplinary Computing, Michigan State University]
“…. richly intriguing book …. ” Margaret A. Boden [OBE, Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Sussex]
2. Understanding Agent Systems, Mark d’Inverno and Michael Luck (Authored Book)
This book – which is an extension of my PHD – went into its second edition after a couple of years. It is co-authored with long-term collaborator Michael Luck and has been cited over 500 times. It provides a foundational framework that sets out to define concepts of agency and automy but in a rigorous mathematical framework that we show camn be used as the foundation to build computational models of agent-based systems.
Second Edition
Mark d’Inverno and Michael Luck, Understanding Agent Systems, Second Edition, 242 pp, Springer, 2004.
First Edition
Mark d’Inverno and Michael Luck, Understanding Agent Systems, 191 pp, Springer, 2001
3. Agent-Oriented Systems Development, Michael Luck, Ronald Ashri and Mark d’Inverno (Authored Book)
Michael Luck, Ronald Ashri and Mark d’Inverno, Agent-Oriented Systems Development, 245 pp, Artech House, 2004.
4. Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems (Edited
This edited book came from a workshop series which I co-founded called UK Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and then grow into the European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems series that was co-chaired by myself and Carles Sierra in Oxford in 2001. This volume presents some of the best papers from the UK workshop series between 1996 and 2000.
Mark d’Inverno, Michael Luck, Michael Fisher and Chris Preist, (editors), Foundations and Applications of Multi-Agent Systems: UKMAS 1996-2000, LNAI 2403, Springer, 2002.
Edited Workshop Proceedings
1. Margaret Boden, Mark d’Inverno, Jon McCormack, Computational Creativity: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings 09291, 2009.
2. Mark d’Inverno, Carles Sierra and Franco Zambonelli, Proceedings of the First European Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems, Oxford University, December, 2003.