Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. — 224 p.
From a more general perspective, this manuscript strives to show that treating various cultural tasks as sequential decision making processes is a powerful paradigm for connecting useful but ultimately limited components (knowledge representation, preference elicitation, model learning, etc.) into a complete autonomous agent. This book also illustrates how insights from the creation of autonomous agents in music domains can be generalized to be broadly applicable in other cultural and social tasks.