DS-2007: Preliminary Call for Papers

The Tenth International Conference on Discovery Science (DS-2007) will be held in Sendai, Japan, on 1-4 October 2007. DS-2007 will be collocated with ALT-2007, the Eighteenth International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory. The two conferences will be held in parallel, and will share their invited talks. The proceedings of DS-2007 will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer-Verlag. DS-2007 provides an open forum for intensive discussions and exchange of new ideas among researchers working in the area of Discovery Science. The scope of the conference includes the development and analysis of methods for intelligent data analysis, knowledge discovery and machine learning, as well as their application to scientific knowledge discovery.

Submissions

We invite submissions of research papers addressing all aspects of discovery science. We particularly welcome contributions that discuss the application of data analysis and other support techniques for scientific discovery including, but not limited to, biomedical, astronomical and other physics domains.

Two types of submissions are solicited: regular and long papers. Regular papers will be presented in an oral spotlight presentation and a poster; authors of long papers will have the opportunity to give an extended oral presentation. Detailed instructions for submission will be available on the conference site soon. A paper submission must be formatted according to the layout supplied by Springer-Verlag for the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Regular papers must not exceed five (5) pages, whereas long papers may contain up to twelve (12) pages.

Mentoring Program and Student Award

Based on the success of the passed two years, DS-2007 is featuring once again a mentoring program. Students who are first authors of papers are invited to submit a paper draft no later than the mentoring deadline. They will receive comments from a PC member that will help them prepare their final submission. An excellent student paper will be selected to receive the Carl Smith Award. The award carries a scholarship prize of 555 Euros.

Submission Topics

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• Logic and philosophy of scientific discovery,
• Knowledge discovery, machine learning and statistical methods,
• Active knowledge discovery,
• Text and web mining,
• Information extraction from scientific literature,
• Knowledge discovery from text and the web,
• Knowledge discovery from unstructured and multimedia data,
• Knowledge discovery in network and link data,
• Knowledge discovery in social networks,
• Data and knowledge visualization,
• Data Streams,
• Spatial/Temporal Data,
• Human-machine interaction for knowledge discovery and management,
• Biomedical knowledge discovery, analysis of microarray and gene deletion data,
• Applications of the above techniques to natural or social sciences,
• Other applications of the above techniques.

Organization

Conference Chair:

Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku University, Japan)

Program Committee Co-Chairs:

Vincent Corruble (UPMC, Paris, France) and Masayuki Takeda (Kyushu University, Japan)

Local Arrangement Chair:

Akira Ishino (Tohoku University, Japan)

Important Dates

Mentoring program submission deadline: 20 April 2007 (not mandatory,CLOSED)
Submission deadline: 18 May 2007 (CLOSED)
Notifications of acceptance: 22 June 2007
Camera-ready copy due: 20 July 2007
Conference: 1-4 October 2007