Algorithmic Songwriting with ALYSIA / Margareta Ackerman, David Loker -- On Symmetry, Aesthetics and Quantifying Symmetrical Complexity / Mohammad Majid al-Rifaie, Anna Ursyn, Robert Zimmer, Mohammad Ali Javaheri Javid -- Towards Polyphony Reconstruction Using Multidimensional Multiple Sequence Alignment / Dimitrios Bountouridis, Frans Wiering, Dan Brown, Remco C. Veltkamp -- Melody Retrieval and Classification Using Biologically-Inspired Techniques / Dimitrios Bountouridis, Dan Brown, Hendrik Vincent Koops, Frans Wiering, Remco C. Veltkamp -- Evolved Aesthetic Analogies to Improve Artistic Experience / Aidan Breen, Colm O’Riordan, Jerome Sheahan -- Deep Artificial Composer: A Creative Neural Network Model for Automated Melody Generation / Florian Colombo, Alexander Seeholzer, Wulfram Gerstner -- A Kind of Bio-inspired Learning of mUsic stylE / Roberto De Prisco, Delfina Malandrino, Gianluca Zaccagnino, Rocco Zaccagnino, Rosalba Zizza -- Using Autonomous Agents to Improvise Music Compositions in Real-Time / Patrick Hutchings, Jon McCormack -- Generating Polyphonic Music Using Tied Parallel Networks / Daniel D. Johnson -- Mixed-Initiative Creative Drawing with webIconoscope / Antonios Liapis -- Clustering Agents for the Evolution of Autonomous Musical Fitness / Róisín Loughran, Michael O’Neill -- EvoFashion: Customising Fashion Through Evolution / Nuno Lourenço, Filipe Assunção, Catarina Maçãs, Penousal Machado -- A Swarm Environment for Experimental Performance and Improvisation / Frank Mauceri, Stephen M. Majercik -- Niche Constructing Drawing Robots / Jon McCormack -- Automated Shape Design by Grammatical Evolution / Manuel Muehlbauer, Jane Burry, Andy Song -- Evolutionary Image Transition Using Random Walks / Aneta Neumann, Bradley Alexander, Frank Neumann -- Evaluation Rules for Evolutionary Generation of Drum Patterns in Jazz Solos / Fabian Ostermann, Igor Vatolkin, Günter Rudolph -- Assessing Augmented Creativity: Putting a Lovelace Machine for Interactive Title Generation Through a Human Creativity Test / Yasser S. Arenas Rebolledo, Peter van der Putten, Maarten H. Lamers -- Play it Again: Evolved Audio Effects and Synthesizer Programming / Benjamin D. Smith -- Fashion Design Aid System with Application of Interactive Genetic Algorithms / Nazanin Alsadat Tabatabaei Anaraki -- Generalisation Performance of Western Instrument Recognition Models in Polyphonic Mixtures with Ethnic Samples / Igor Vatolkin -- Exploring the Exactitudes Portrait Series with Restricted Boltzmann Machines / Sam D. Verkoelen, Maarten H. Lamers, Peter van der Putten -- Evolving Mondrian-Style Artworks / Miri Weiss Cohen, Leticia Cherchiglia, Rachel Costa -- Predicting Expressive Bow Controls for Violin and Viola / Lauren Jane Yu, Andrea Pohoreckyj Danyluk

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoMUSART 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017, co-located with the Evo*2017 events EuroGP, EvoCOP and EvoApplications. The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and application areas, including: generative approaches to music, graphics, game content, and narrative; music information retrieval; computational aesthetics; the mechanics of interactive evolutionary computation; computer-aided design; and the art theory of evolutionary computation.