CSR 2018 - Cybernetic Serendipity Reimagined

Following the successful AISB Member Workshop VII: Serendipity Symposium held at St Mary's University in June 2017, with keynotes by leading serendiptologists and nine contributed talks, we invite full papers, short papers, and demos for a Symposium on the theme of "Cybernetic Serendipity" -- broadly understood.
We take the 50th Anniversary of the famous Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition, curated by Jasia Reichardt at the London's Institute for Contemporary Arts, as our inspiration. The show introduced a broader audience for the first time to emerging work on the intersection of art and technology. “Cybernetic Serendipity” lends itself beautifully (perhaps even serendipitously) to a sensory and emotionally evocative exploration of “AI for the Digital Society”, the theme of this year’s AISB convention.
Serendipity has been studied extensively to theorise human discovery. However, there has been little consideration of serendipity in AI -- it simply wasn’t needed, because systems were designed to run in a perfectly predictable manner within highly constrained environments. In recent years, anticipation of AI systems with increasingly unpredictable behaviour leads us to reconsider the role of serendipity may play in a computational context. Serendipity has been addressed in a variety of adjacent fields such as recommender systems, machine ethics, information retrieval, information science, planning and computational creativity. With this symposium, we want to encourage a mutually beneficial exchange between these and other disciplines beyond computing.