- author = "Roisin Loughran and Michael O'Neill",
- title = "The popular critic: Evolving melodies with popularity driven fitness",
- booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on musical metacreation (MUME 2016)",
- year = "2016",
- editor = "Philippe Pasquier and Oliver Bown and Arne Eigenfeldt",
- address = "Paris",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming",
- isbn13 = "978-0-86491-397-5",
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URL = "
http://musicalmetacreation.org/workshops/mume-2016/program/",
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URL = "http://musicalmetacreation.org/buddydrive/file/loughran_the_popular/",
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URL = "
http://ncra.ucd.ie/papers/The%20Popular%20Critic-%20Evolving%20Melodies%20with%20Popularity%20Driven%20Fitness.pdf",
- size = "8 pages",
- abstract = "One of the fundamental challenges in applying evolutionary computation to creative applications such as music composition is in the design of a suitable fitness function. This paper proposes a new method of examining fitness, not from an inherent musical aspect of the individual but from the degree to which a given individual conforms to the popular opinion of its peers. A cyclical system is presented that uses an initial corpus of melodies to evolve a fitness Critic which in turn is used to create a new melody. This new melody is then input into the original corpus to continue the cycle of Critics creating melodies that in turn are used to create Critics. A diversity measure of the changing corpus over evolutionary cycles shows that the corpus becomes less diverse as more of the melodies are created by the system. The system creates melodies in a method that is not random but that is unpredictable to the programmer.",
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notes = "Full Paper
Held at the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, ICCC 2016",
