Principles for organization of creative groups

In this paper we first propose an outline for an overall organization of the group creative process. In particular two major components of the process are considered in detail. For group selection, diversity measures including those based on information theory and a species diversity measure are discussed and examples provided. The idea of a diversity space is also introduced to obtain some intuition on the issues relative to population diversity. The actual creative idea generation process is then considered with respect to the social interactions inside the selected creative group. Approaches to modeling the ways in which linguistic persuasion can occur are described. Finally approaches to the generalization of the ideas that evolved using concept hierarchies are presented.