Domain Bridging Associations Support Creativity by Tobias Kötter, Kilian Thiel, and Michael R. Berthold, offers the following abstract:
This paper proposes a new approach to support creativity through assisting the discovery of unexpected associations across different domains. This is achieved by integrating information from heterogeneous domains into a single network, enabling the interactive discovery of links across the corresponding information resources. We discuss three different pattern of domain crossing associations in this context.
Does that sound familiar to anyone?
Part of the continuing irony that semantic integration research suffers from a lack of semantic integration.
I am just at the tip of this particular iceberg of research so please chime in with pointers to conferences, proceedings, articles, books, etc.
The Universtät Konstanz, Nycomed Chair for Bioinformatics and Data Mining, Publications page, where I found this paper and a number of other resources.