A General Framework for Describing Creative Agents
  Computational creativity is a subfield of AI focused on developing and
studying creative systems. Few academic studies analysing the behaviour of
creative agents from a theoretical viewpoint have been proposed. The proposed
frameworks are vague and hard to exploit; moreover, such works are focused on a
notion of creativity tailored for humans.
  In this paper we introduce General Creativity, which extends that traditional
notion. General Creativity provides the basis for a formalised theoretical
framework, that allows one to univocally describe any creative agent, and their
behaviour within societies of creative systems. Given the growing number of AI
creative systems developed over recent years, it is of fundamental importance
to understand how they could influence each other as well as how to gauge their
impact on human society. In particular, in this paper we exploit the proposed
framework for (i) identifying different forms of creativity; (ii) describing
some typical creative agents behaviour, and (iii) analysing the dynamics of
societies in which both human and non-human creative systems coexist.
