baldassarri baronchelli barrat caglioti castellano cattuto complexity dattoli evolutionary_dynamics granular_media granular_media herrmann information_theory innovation_dynamics kreyon language_dynamics loreto mari mukherjee petri pietronero puglisi quantum_optics self_organization servedio statistical_physics techno_social_systems tria zapperi zippers
2016 |
Monechi, Bernardo; Gravino, Pietro; Servedio, Vito DP; Tria, Francesca; Loreto, Vittorio Significance and Popularity in Music Production Paper Proceeding submitted to PLoS ONE, 2016. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: complex networks, creativity, kreyon, music, popularity @proceedings{Monechi2016b, title = {Significance and Popularity in Music Production Paper}, author = {Bernardo Monechi and Pietro Gravino and Vito DP Servedio and Francesca Tria and Vittorio Loreto}, url = {http://xtribe.eu/sites/default/files/kreyon_files/Significance_and_Popularity_in_Music_Production.pdf}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-03-05}, journal = {submitted to "ICCC 2016 - The Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity"}, publisher = {submitted to PLoS ONE}, abstract = {In the world of creative productions there is a constant struggle to achieve fame and popularity. While highly popular creations are usually well remembered throughout the years, many influential works that did not achieve that status are long-forgotten. Due to their relevance for the whole artistic production, it is important to identify them and save their memory for obvious cultural reasons. In this paper we focus on the musical context and we analyze the dynamics of the tagging process on Last.fm, an on-line catalog of music albums. We define a set of general metrics aiming at characterizing the creative potential and the long-term significance of creative products and we apply them to the case of musical albums. We then adopt these metrics to implement an automated prediction method of both the commercial success of a creation and its belonging to expert validated lists of particularly creative and important works. We show that our metrics are not only useful to asses such predictions, but can also highlight important differences between culturally relevant and simply popular products of human creative production.}, keywords = {complex networks, creativity, kreyon, music, popularity}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {proceedings} } In the world of creative productions there is a constant struggle to achieve fame and popularity. While highly popular creations are usually well remembered throughout the years, many influential works that did not achieve that status are long-forgotten. Due to their relevance for the whole artistic production, it is important to identify them and save their memory for obvious cultural reasons. In this paper we focus on the musical context and we analyze the dynamics of the tagging process on Last.fm, an on-line catalog of music albums. We define a set of general metrics aiming at characterizing the creative potential and the long-term significance of creative products and we apply them to the case of musical albums. We then adopt these metrics to implement an automated prediction method of both the commercial success of a creation and its belonging to expert validated lists of particularly creative and important works. We show that our metrics are not only useful to asses such predictions, but can also highlight important differences between culturally relevant and simply popular products of human creative production. |
Gravino, Pietro; Monechi, Bernardo; Servedio, Vito DP; Tria, Francesca; Loreto, Vittorio Crossing the horizon: exploring the adjacent possible in a cultural system Proceeding Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, June 2016, 2016. Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: adjacent possible, complex network, creativity, innovation_dynamics, kreyon, movies @proceedings{Gravino2016, title = {Crossing the horizon: exploring the adjacent possible in a cultural system}, author = {Pietro Gravino and Bernardo Monechi and Vito DP Servedio and Francesca Tria and Vittorio Loreto}, url = {http://www.computationalcreativity.net/iccc2016/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Crossing-the-horizon.pdf}, year = {2016}, date = {2016-03-05}, journal = {submitted to "ICCC 2016 - The Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity"}, publisher = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Creativity, June 2016}, abstract = {It is common opinion that many innovations are triggered by serendipity whose notion is associated with fortuitous events leading to unintended consequences. One might argue that this interpretation is due to the poor understanding of the dynamics of innovations. Very little is known, in fact, about how innovations proceed and samples the space of potential novelties. This space is usually referred to as the adjacent possible, a concept originally introduced in the study of biological systems to indicate the set of possibilities that are one step away from what actually exists. In this paper we focus on the problem of defining the adjacent possible space, and analyzing its dynamics, for a particular system, namely the cultural system of the network of movies. We synthesized to this end the graph emerging from the Internet Movies Database (IMDb) and looked at the static and dynamical properties of this network. We deal, in particular, with the subtle mechanism of the adjacent possible by measuring the expansion and the coverage of this elusive space during the global evolution of the system. Finally, we introduce the concept of adjacent possibilities at the level of single node and try to elucidate its nature by looking at the correlations with topological and user annotation metrics.}, keywords = {adjacent possible, complex network, creativity, innovation_dynamics, kreyon, movies}, pubstate = {published}, tppubtype = {proceedings} } It is common opinion that many innovations are triggered by serendipity whose notion is associated with fortuitous events leading to unintended consequences. One might argue that this interpretation is due to the poor understanding of the dynamics of innovations. Very little is known, in fact, about how innovations proceed and samples the space of potential novelties. This space is usually referred to as the adjacent possible, a concept originally introduced in the study of biological systems to indicate the set of possibilities that are one step away from what actually exists. In this paper we focus on the problem of defining the adjacent possible space, and analyzing its dynamics, for a particular system, namely the cultural system of the network of movies. We synthesized to this end the graph emerging from the Internet Movies Database (IMDb) and looked at the static and dynamical properties of this network. We deal, in particular, with the subtle mechanism of the adjacent possible by measuring the expansion and the coverage of this elusive space during the global evolution of the system. Finally, we introduce the concept of adjacent possibilities at the level of single node and try to elucidate its nature by looking at the correlations with topological and user annotation metrics. |
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