Special Issue on Discovery Science - Call for Papers

at The Computer Journal (Oxford University Press), Submission page (specify "DS Special Issue"), Instructions for Authors

Scope and background
The Computer Journal is soliciting submissions based on an open call for papers for a Special Issue on Discovery Science (DS), to provide a leading forum for timely, in-depth presentation of recent advances in algorithms, theories, and applications in the field of DS, which is a scientific discipline on any discovery process that is mainly approached by computer science. Highly relevant research fields are knowledge discovery in databases and scientific discovery, followed by machine learning and statistics. Data mining and data analysis may be considered as fruitful applications. Research in discovery science is more descriptive than predictive, focuses more on interestingness than accuracy, usually tends to focus on a part of the example space rather than the whole, and may be applied to both labeled and unlabeled data.
DS first started as a national project for investigating the automated discovery process with scientific approach in Japan involving more than 100 researchers in 1998. This project gave birth to a series of international conferences with the same name, which have been held successfully thirteen times since 1998. This special issue capitalises on the success of the DS conferences, but also provides an open competition for all researchers who wish to present relevant research results.
All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of originality, quality and relevance to this Special Issue and the journal.

DS 2011 and ISCIS 2011
Prior to submitting to this special issue, a submission to DS 2011 or the special session on DS at ISCIS 2011 is highly encouraged, as we plan to share some of the reviewers with these conferences. We expect that a paper accepted to one of these conferences will be extended and improved based on the comments of the reviewers and the appropriateness of the extensions will also be evaluated by the same reviewers in editing this special issue.

Domain of Interest
Papers are solicited concerning automatic scientific knowledge discovery, data mining, machine learning, intelligent data analysis, theory of learning, and their application to knowledge discovery.

The Computer Journal
The Computer Journal started in 1958 and is thus one of the longest-established journals serving all branches of the academic computer science community. The Journal has an impact factor of 1.394 and is published on behalf of The British Computer Society with more than 70,000 members and from the Oxford University Press. It had long been published in Section A: Computer Science, Methods and Tools (e.g., theory, algorithms, software engineering, data structures, and complexity) and Section B: Networks and Computer Systems (e.g., architectures, mobile and wireless computing, network protocols, security, reliability and performance optimisation). A third section, which was launched in 2010, is: Section C: Computational Intelligence builds on artificial intelligence, robotics and machine intelligence (e.g., data mining, image processing, knowledge-based systems and the semantic web). The special issue belongs to the Section C of the Computer Journal.

Related links
What is Discovery Science?, Archives of International Conference on Discovery Science Series, Fourteenth International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2011)

Last Update
Mon Aug 29 13:50:48 JST 2011