Publications

Dissertation: Functional Scaffolding for Musical Composition: A New Approach in Computer-Assisted Music Composition

Journal

The Many AI Challenges of Hearthstone.
Amy K. Hoover, Julian Togelius, Scott Lee, and Fernando de Mesentier Silva.
Under Revision In: Künstliche Intelligenz.

Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning (PCGML).
Adam Summerville, Sam Snodgrass, Matthew Guzdial, Christoffer Holmgård, Amy K. Hoover, Aaron Isaksen, Andy Nealen, and Julian Togelius.
In: IEEE Transactions on Games10 (3), 257-270. Manuscript 15 pages.

Functional Scaffolding for Composing Additional Musical Voices
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, and Kenneth O. Stanley
In: Computer Music Journal 38, 80–99 (2014). Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2014. Manuscript 20 pages.

Exploiting Functional Relationships in Musical Composition
Amy K. Hoover and Kenneth O. Stanley
In: Connection Science Special Issue on Music, Brain, & Cognition. Abington, UK: Taylor & Francis, 2009. Manuscript 33 pages.

Conference and Workshop

Evolving the Hearthstone Meta.
Fernando De Mesentier Silva, Rodrigo Canaan, Scott Lee, Julian Togelius, Amy K Hoover.
In: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Games (CoG-2019, London, England).

Mapping Hearthstone Deck Spaces through MAP-Elites with Sliding Boundaries.
Matthew C Fontaine, Scott Lee, LB Soros, Fernando De Mesentier Silva, Julian Togelius, Amy K Hoover.
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2019, Prague, Czech Republic).

Exploring the Hearthstone Deck Space.
Aditya Bhatt, Scott Lee, Fernando de Mesentier Silva, Connor W Watson, Julian Togelius, Amy K Hoover.
In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. ACM, 2018.

AI-Assisted Analysis of Player Strategy Across Level Progressions in a Puzzle Game.
Britton Horn, Amy K Hoover, Yetunde Folajimi, Jackie Barnes, Casper Harteveld, Gillian Smith.
In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. ACM, 2017.

Exploring Emerging Design Patterns in Student-made Climate Change Games.
Jackie Barnes, Amy K Hoover, Borna Fatehi, Jesús Moreno-León, Gillian Smith, Casper Harteveld.
In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games. ACM, 2017.

Assessing Computational Thinking in Students’ Game Designs
Amy K. Hoover, Jackie Barnes, Borna Fatehi, Jesús Moreno-León, Gillian Puttick, Eli Tucker-Raymond, and Casper Harteveld
In: Proceedings of the CHI PLAY’16 Extended Abstracts (CHI PLAY 2016, Austin, Texas, 2016).

Opening the Black Box of Play: Strategy Analysis of an
Educational Game

Britton Horn, Amy K. Hoover, Jackie Barnes, Yetunde Folajimi, Gillian Smith, and Casper Harteveld
In: Proceedings of CHI Play ’16 (CHI PLAY 2016, Austin, Texas, 2016).

A Cross-Cultural Evaluation of a Computer Science Teaching Game
Yetunde Folajimi, Britton Horn, Jackie Barnes, Amy Hoover, Gillian Smith, Casper Harteveld
In: GLS 12 Conference Proceedings (GLS 2016, Madison, Wisconsin, 2016).

Composing Video Game Levels with Music Metaphors through Functional Scaffolding
Amy K. Hoover, Julian Togelius, and Georgios N. Yannakakis
In: Proceedings of the 1st Computational Creativity & Games Workshop at the International Conference on Computational Creativity (CCGW at ICCC 2015, Park City, Utah, 2015)

Interactively Evolving Compositional Sound Synthesis Networks
Björn Þór Jónsson, Amy K. Hoover, and Sebastian Risi
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2015, Madrid, Spain).

Motivating Visual Interpretations in Iconoscope: Designing a Game for Fostering Creativity
Antonios Liapis, Amy K. Hoover, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Constantine Alexopoulos, and Evangelia V. Dimaraki
In: Proceedings of the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG 2015, Asilomar, CA, USA).

Towards Orchestrating Game Creativity Facets: Fusing Audio, Visuals and Gameplay
Amy K. Hoover, William Cachia, Antonis Liapis, and Georgios N. Yannakakis
In: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark).

Implications from Music Generation for Music Appreciation
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, and Kenneth O. Stanley
In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC-2013, Sydney, Australia).

Generating a Complete Multipart Musical Composition from a Single Monophonic Melody with Functional Scaffolding
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, Marie E. Norton, Trevor A. Brindle, Zachary Merritt, and Kenneth O. Stanley
In: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC-2012, Dublin, Ireland).

Interactively Evolving Harmonies through Functional Scaffolding
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, and Kenneth O. Stanley
In: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2011). New York, NY: ACM, 2011. 8 pages.
Winner of the Best Paper Award in the Digital Entertainment Technologies and Arts track

Generating Musical Accompaniment through Functional Scaffolding
Amy K. Hoover, Paul A. Szerlip, and Kenneth O. Stanley
In: Proceedings of the 8th Sound and Music Computing Conference (SMC-2011, Padova, Italy).

Scaffolding for Interactively Evolving Novel Drum Tracks for Existing Songs
Amy K. Hoover, Michael P. Rosario, and Kenneth O. Stanley
In: Proceedings of the Sixth European Workshop on Evolutionary and Biologically Inspired Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART 2008). New York, NY: Springer, 2008. 10 pages.
Winner of the Best Paper Award at EvoMUSART 2008