Archives of International Conference on Discovery Science Serie

International conference on Discovery science (DS) series originated from activities of the Discovery Science Project sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture of Japan. The Discovery Science Project, which started in 1998 and ended in 2001, achieved its objectives: (1) develop new methods for knowledge discovery, (2) install network environments for knowledge discovery, and (3) establish Discovery Science as a new area of computer science. For further information see What is Discovery Science?.

DS conference series celebrated its 15th anniversary in Lyon, France in October 2012.

DS Conferences

1. DS 1998@Fukuoka, Japan
• Conference Chair: Setsuo Arikawa (Kyushu University). Program Committee Chair: Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka University). Local Arrangements Chair: Takeshi Shinohara (Kyushu Institute of Technology).
• Proceedings: Setsuo Arikawa, Hiroshi Motoda (Eds.): Discovery Science, First International Conference, DS '98, Fukuoka, Japan, December 14-16, 1998, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1532 Springer 1998, ISBN 3-540-65390-2
• Invited talks
1. Keiichi Noe: Philosophical Aspects of Scientific Discovery: A Historical Survey
2. Heikki Mannila: Learning, Mining, or Modeling? A Case Study from Paleoecology
3. Pat Langley: The Computer-Aided Discovery of Scientific Knowledge
2. DS 1999@Tokyo, Japan
• Conference Chair: Setsuo Arikawa (Kyushu University). Program Committee Chair: Koichi Furukawa (Keio University). Local Arrangements Chair: Satoru Miyano (University of Tokyo).
• Proceedings: Setsuo Arikawa Koichi Furukawa (Eds.): Discovery Science, Second International Conference, DS '99, Tokyo, Japan, December, 1999, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1721 Springer 1999, ISBN 3-540-66713-X
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 1999)
1. Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley): Expressive Probability Models in Science
2. Jan M Zytkow (UNCC): The Melting Pot of Automated Discovery: Principles for a New Science
3. Katharina Morik (University of Dortmund)
4. Robert Schapire (AT&T Shannon Lab.)
5. Kenji Yamanishi (NEC)
3. DS 2000@Kyoto, Japan
• Conference Chair: Setsuo Arikawa (Kyushu University). Program Committee Chair: Shinichi Morishita (University of Tokyo). Local Arrangements Chair: Masahiko Sato (Kyoto University).
• Proceedings: Setsuo Arikawa, Shinichi Morishita (Eds.): Discovery Science, Third International Conference, DS 2000, Kyoto, Japan, December 4-6, 2000, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1967 Springer 2000, ISBN 3-540-41352-9
• Invited talks
1. Jeffrey D. Ullman (Stanford University): A Survey of Association-Rule Mining
2. Joseph Y. Halpern (Cornell University): Degrees of Brief, Random Worlds, and Maximum Entropy
3. Masami Hagiya (University of Tokyo): Discovery and Deduction
4. DS 2001@Washington D.C., USA
• Conference Chair: Masahiko Sato (Kyoto University). Program Committee Chairs: Klaus P. Jantke (DFKI GmbH), Ayumi Shinohara (Kyushu University). Local Arrangements Chair: Carl H. Smith (University of Maryland).
• Proceedings: Klaus P.Jantke, Ayumi Shinohara (Eds.): Discovery Science, 4th International Conference, DS 2001, Washington, DC, USA, November 25-28, 2001, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2226 Springer 2001, ISBN 3-540-42956-5
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2001)
1. Setsuo Arikawa (Kyushu University, Japan): The Discovery Science Project in Japan
2. Lindley Darden (University of Maryland): Discovering Mechanisms: A Computational Philosophy of Science Perspective
3. Dana Angluin (Yale University): Queries Revisited
4. Ben Shneiderman (University of Maryland): Inventing Discovery Tools: Combining Information Visualization with Data Mining
5. Paul R. Cohen (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Tim Oates, Niall M. Adams, Carole R. Beal: Robot Baby 2001
5. DS 2002@Lübeck, Germany
• Conference Chair: Carl H. Smith(University of Maryland). Program Committee Chairs: Steffen Lange (DFKI GmbH), Ken Satoh (National Institute of Informatics). Local Arrangements Chairs: Andreas Jakoby, Thomas Zeugmann(University at Lübeck, Germany).
• Proceedings: Steffen Lange, Ken Satoh, Carl H. Smith (Eds.): Discovery Science, 5th International Conference, DS 2002, Lübeck, Germany, November 24-26, 2002, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2534 Springer 2002, ISBN 3-540-00188-3
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2002)
1. Susumu Hayashi (Kobe University, Kobe, Japan): Mathematics Based on Learning
2. Rudolf Kruse (University of Magdeburg, Germany): Data Mining with Graphical Models
3. John Shawe-Taylor (Royal Holloway, University of London): On the Eigenspectrum of the Gram Matrix and its Relationship to the Operator Eigenspectrum
4. Gerhard Widmer (Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna): In Search of the Horowitz Factor
5. Ian H.Witten (University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand): Learning structure from sequences, with applications in a digital library
6. DS 2003@Sapporo, Japan
• Conference Chair: Yuzuru Tanaka (Hokkaido Univ., Japan). Program Committee Co-chairs: Gunter Grieser (Co-chair, Technical Univ. Darmstadt, Germany), Akihiro Yamamoto (Co-chair, Hokkaido Univ., Japan). Local Arrangements Chair: Makoto Haraguchi (Hokkaido Univ., Japan).
• Proceedings: Gunter Grieser, Yuzuru Tanaka, Akihiro Yamamoto (Eds.): Discovery Science, 6th International Conference, DS 2003, Sapporo, Japan, October 17-19,2003, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2843 Springer 2003, ISBN 3-540-20293-5
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2003)
1. Thomas Eiter (Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria): Abduction and the Dualization Problem
2. Genshiro Kitagawa (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan): Signal Extraction and Knowledge Discovery Based on Statistical Modeling
3. Akihiko Takano (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan): Association Computation for Information Access
4. Naftali Tishby (Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel): Efficient Data Representations that Preserve Information
5. Thomas Zeugmann (University at Lübeck, Lübeck,Germany): Can Learning in the Limit be Done Efficiently?
7. DS 2004@Padova, Italy
• Conference Chair: Setsuo Arikawa (Kyushu University, Japan). Program Committee Chair: Einoshin Suzuki (Yokohama National University, Japan). Local Arrangements Chair: Massimo Melucci (University of Padova, Italy).
• Proceedings: Einoshin Suzuki, Setsuo Arikawa (Eds.): Discovery Science, 7th International Conference, DS 2004, Padova, Italy, October 2-5, 2004, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3245 Springer 2004, ISBN 3-540-23357-1
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2004)
1. Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy): Applications of Regularized Least Squares in Classification Problems
2. Luc De Raedt (Universität Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany): Probabilistic Inductive Logic Programming
3. Pedro Domingos (University of Washington, Seattle, USA): Learning, Logic, and Probability: A Unified View
4. Esko Ukkonen (University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland): Hidden Markov Modeling Techniques for Haplotype Analysis
5. Ayumi Shinohara (Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan): String Pattern Discovery
• Tutorials (shared with ALT 2004, ALT's turn)
1. Bruno Apolloni (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy): Foundations (Tutorial on Statistical Bases of Machine Learning)
2. Bruno Apolloni, Dario Malchiodi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy): Machine Learning (Tutorial on Statistical Bases of Machine Learning)
3. Toshiyuki Tanaka (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan): Statistical Learning in Digital Wireless Communications (Tutorial on Statistical Mechanical Methods in Learning)
4. Yoshiyuki Kabashima (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan): A BP-Based Algorithm for Performing Bayesian Inference in Large Networkds of Perceptron -Type (Tutorial on Statistical Mechanical Methods in Learning)
5. Manfred Opper (Aston University, Birmingham, U.K.): Approximate Inference in Probabilistic Models (Tutorial on Statistical Mechanical Methods in Learning)
8. DS 2005@Singapore, Singapore
• Conference Chair: Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka University). Program Committee Chairs: Achim Hoffmann (University of New South Wales), Tobias Scheffer (Humboldt University, Berlin). Tutorial Chair: Johannes Fürnkranz (Technische Universität Darmstadt). Local Chair: Lee Wee Sun (National University of Singapore).
• Proceedings: Achim G. Hoffmann, Hiroshi Motoda, Tobias Scheffer (Eds.): Discovery Science, 8th International Conference, DS 2005, Singapore, October 8-11, 2005, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3735 Springer 2005, ISBN 3-540-29230-6
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2005)
1. Gary L. Bradshaw (Mississippi State University, Starkville, U.S.A.): Discoveries and Invention: The Airplane and the Rocket Boys
2. Vasant Honavar (Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.A.): Algorithms and Software for Collaborative Discovery from Autonomous, Semantically Heterogeneous, Distributed, Information Sources
3. Chih-Jen Lin (National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan): Optimization Issues in Training Support Vector Machines
4. Ross D. King (The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K.): The Robot Scientist Project
5. Neil Smalheiser (University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, U.S.A.): The Arrowsmith Project: 2005 Status Report
• Tutorials (shared with ALT 2005, DS's turn)
1. Wing-Kin Sung, Limsoon Wong (Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore): Bioinformatics in Practice
2. Ljupco Todorovski (Department of Intelligent Systems, Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia): Computational Scientific Discovery
3. Simeon J. Simoff, John Galloway (Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, University of Technology Sydney, Broadway NSW, Australia): Network Data Mining and Visualisation (canceled at the last moment)
9. DS 2006@Barcelona, Spain
• Conference Chair: Klaus P.Jantke (FIT Leipzig, Germany). Program Committee Chairs: Nada Lavrac, Ljupco Todorovski  (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia). Local Arrangements Chair: Ricard Gavalda (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain).
• Proceedings: Ljupco Todorovski, Nada Lavrac, Klaus P.Jantke (Eds.):
  Discovery Science, 9th International Conference, DS 2006, Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4265 Springer 2006, ISBN 3-540-46491-4
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2006)
1. Carole Goble (University of Manchester, UK): Putting Semantics into e-Science and the Grid
2. Padhraic Smyth (University of California, Irvine, USA): Data-Driven Discovery using Probabilistic Hidden Variable Models
3. Andrew Ng (Stanford University, USA): Reinforcement Learning and Apprenticeship Learning for Robotic Control
4. Gunnar Rätsch (Friedrich Miescher Labor, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Tübingen, Germany): The Solution of Semi-Infinite Linear Programs using Boosting-like methods
5. Hans Ulrich Simon (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany): The Usage of the Spectral Norm in Learning Theory: Some Selected Topics
• Tutorials (shared with ALT 2006, DS's turn)
1. Michael May (Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems,: Geographic and Spatial Data Mining
2. Luis Torgo (University of Porto, Portugal): Using R for Data Mining and Scientific Discovery
10. DS 2007@Sendai, Japan
• Conference Chair: Ayumi Shinohara (Tohoku University, Japan). Program Committee Co-Chairs: Vincent Corruble (UPMC, Paris, France), Masayuki Takeda (Kyushu University, Japan). Local Arrangements Chair: Akira Ishino (Tohoku University, Japan).
• Proceedings: Vincent Corruble, Masayuki Takeda, Einoshin Suzuki (Eds.): Discovery Science, 10th International Conference, DS 2007 Sendai, Japan, October 1-4, 2007, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4755 Springer 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-75487-9
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2007)
1. Jürgen Schmidhuber (IDSIA, Lugano, Switzerland): Simple Algorithmic Principles of Discovery, Subjective Beauty, Selective Attention, Curiosity & Creativity
2. Masaru Kitsuregawa (The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan): Challenge for Info-plosion
3. Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA):  Machine Learning in Ecosystem Informatics
4. Avrim Blum (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA): A Theory of Similarity Functions for Learning and Clustering
5. Alex Smola, Arthur Gretton, Le Song and Bernhard Schölkopf (National ICT Australia / ANU, Canberra, Australia): A Hilbert Space Embedding for Distributions
• Tutorials (shared with ALT 2007, ALT's turn)
1. Marcus Hutter: (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia): On the Philosophical, Statistical, and Computational Foundations of Inductive Inference and Intelligent Agents
2. Kazuyuki Tanaka (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan): Introduction to Probabilistic Image Processing and Bayesian Networks
11. DS 2008@Budapest, Hungary
• Conference Chair: Tamás Horváth (Fraunhofer Institute, AIS, Germany). Program Committee Co-Chairs: Jean-François Boulicaut (INSA Lyon, Lyon, France), Michael R. Berthold (University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany). Local Arrangements Chair: János Csirik (Univ. of Szeged & RGAI Szeged, Szeged, Hungary).
• Proceedings: Jean-François Boulicaut, Michael R. Berthold, and Tamás Horváth (Eds.): Discovery Science, 11th International Conference, DS 2008 Budapest, Hungary, October 13-16, 2008, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5255 Springer 2008, ISBN 978-3540884101
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2008)
1. Heikki Mannila (University of Helsinki, Finland): Finding Total and Partial Orders from Data for Seriation
2. Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA): Computational Models of Neural Representations in the Human Brain
3. Daniel Keim (Universität Konstanz, Germany): Visual Analytics: Combining Automated Discovery with Interactive Visualizations
4. László Lovász (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary): Some Mathematics behind Graph Property Testing
5. Imre Csiszár (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary): On Iterative Algorithms with an Information Geometry Background
• Tutorials (shared with ALT 2008, DS's turn)
1. João Gama (University of Porto, Portugal): Mining from Data Streams: Issues and Challenges
2. Saso Dzeroski (Institute Jozef Stefan, Slovenia): Constraint-Based Data Mining and Inductive Queries
12. DS 2009@Porto, Portugal
• General Chair: Pavel Brazdil (University Porto, Portugal). Conference Chair: João Gama (University Porto, Portugal). Program Committee Co-Chairs: Vítor Santos Costa (University Porto, Portugal), Alípio Jorge (University Porto, Portugal). Publicity Chair: Pedro Pereira Rodrigues (University Porto, Portugal)
• Proceedings: João Gama, Vítor Santos Costa, Alípio Mário Jorge, Pavel B. Brazdil (eds.): Discovery Science: 12th International Conference, DS 2009, Porto, Portugal, October 3-5, 2009 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 5808, Springer, 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-04746-6)
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2009)
1. Fernando C. N. Pereira (Google, Mountain View, USA): Learning on the Web
2. Hector Geffner (ICREA & Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain): Inference and Learning in Planning
3. Jiawei Han (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA): Mining Heterogeneous Information Networks By Exploring the Power of Links
4. Sanjoy Dasgupta (University of California, San Diego, USA): The Two Faces of Active Learning
5. Yishay Mansour (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel): Learning and Domain Adaptation
• Tutorials (shared with ALT 2009, ALT's turn)
1. Concha Bielza and Pedro Larrañaga (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid): Computational Intelligence for Neuroscience
2. Howard Hamilton (University of Regina) and Fabrice Guillet (Université de Nantes): Interestingness Measures for Knowledge Discovery
13. DS 2010@Canberra, Australia
• Conference Chair: Achim G. Hoffmann (University of New South Wales, Australia). Program Committee Co-Chairs: Bernhard Pfahringer, Geoffrey Holmes (University of Waikato, New Zealand). Local Arrangements Chair: Eric McCreath (University of New South Wales, Australia).
• Proceedings: Pfahringer, Bernahrd; Holmes, Geoff; Hoffman, Achim (Eds.): Discovery Science: 13th International Conference, DS 2010, Canberra, Australia, October 6-8, 2010, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science / Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6332, Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-16183-4)
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2010)
1. Peter L. Bartlett (UC Berkeley, USA): Optimal Online Prediction in Adversarial Environments
2. Claude Sammut (University of New South Wales, Australia): Active Discovery of Tool Use by a Robot (Initially planned for the following talk, which was cancelled due to a health problem.
Ivan Bratko (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia): Discovery of Abstract Concepts by a Robot)
3. Ramamohanarao (Rao) Kotagiri (University of Melbourne, Australia): Contrast Pattern Mining and its Application for Building Robust Classifiers
4. Alexander Clark (Royal Holloway, University of London, Great Britain): Towards General Algorithms for Grammatical Inference
5. Manfred K. Warmuth (UC Santa Cruz, USA): The Blessing and the Curse of the Multiplicative Updates
• Tutorials (shared with ALT 2010, ALT's turn)
1. Steve Hanneke (Carnegie Mellon University, USA): Active Learning
2. Sanjay Jain and Frank Stephan (National University of Singapore): Inductive Inference
14. DS 2011@Espoo-Helsinki, Finland
• Conference Chair: Heikki Mannila (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland). Program Committee Co-Chairs: Tapio Elomaa (Tampere University of Technology, Finland), Jaakko Hollmén (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland). Local Arrangements Chair: Olli Simula (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland).
• Proceedings: Tapio Elomaa, Jaakko Hollmén and Heikki Mannila (Eds.): Discovery Science: 14th International Conference, DS 2011, Espoo, Finland, October 5-7, 2011. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 6926, 2011, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-24477-3, Springer 2011)
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2011)
1. Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal, Canada): Deep Learning of Representations
2. Ming Li (University of Waterloo, Canada): Information Distance and Its New Applications
3. Eyke Hüllermeier (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany) jointly with Johannes Fürnkranz (Technische UniversitDarmstadt, Germany): Learning from Label Preferences
4. Jorma Rissanen (Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland): Optimal Estimation
5. Peter Auer (University of Leoben, Austria): Models for Autonomously Motivated Exploration in Reinforcement Learning
• Tutorials (shared with ALT 2011)
1. Sébastien Bubeck (Princeton University, USA): Bandit Problems
2. Eyke Hüllermeier (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany) jointly with Johannes Fürnkranz (Technische UniversitDarmstadt, Germany): Preference Learning
15. DS 2012@Lyon, France
• General Chair: Djamel Zighed (University Lumiere Lyon 2). Conference Chair: Jean-Gabriel Ganascia (University Pierre and Marie Curie). Program Committee Chairs: Philippe Lenca (Telecom Bretagne, France), Jean-Marc Petit (University of Lyon, France). General Local Chair: Stephane Lallich (University Lumiere Lyon 2). Local Chair: Julien Velcin (University Lumiere Lyon 2).
• Proceedings: Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Philippe Lenca, and Jean-Marc Petit (Eds.): Discovery Science: 15th International Conference, DS 2012, Lyon, France, October, 2012. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Volume 7569, 2012, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33492-4, Springer 2012)
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2011)
1. Luc De Raedt (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium): Declarative Modeling for Machine Learning and Data Mining
2. Toon Calders (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands): Recent Developments in Pattern Mining
3. Shai Shalev-Shwartz (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): Learnability Beyond Uniform Convergence
• Tutorials (shared with ALT 2011)
1. Gilbert Ritschard (University of Geneva, Switzerland): Exploring sequential data
2. Pascal Massart (Universitá de Paris-Sud, France): Model selection theory --- a tutorial with applications to learning
16. DS 2013@Singapore, Singapore
• Conference Chair: Tomoyuki Higuchi (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan). Program Committee Chairs: Eyke Hüllermeier (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany). Johannes Fürnkranz (Technische UniversitDarmstadt, Germany). Local Chair: (TBD).
• Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer 2013
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2013)
• Tutorials (shared with ALT 2013)
17. DS 2014@Bled, Slovenia
• Conference Chair: Ljupco Todorovski (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia). Program Committee Chair: Saso Dzeroski (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia). Program Committee Co-Chairs: Dragi Kocev (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia). Pance Panov (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia). Local Chair: Tina Anzic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia).
• Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer 2014
• Invited talks (shared with ALT 2014)
• Tutorials (shared with ALT 2014)
18. DS 2015 (accepting proposals)

DS Steering Committee

1. Current members
• Akihiro Yamamoto (since 2009. Chair since 2012)
• Setsuo Arikawa (since 1998. Chair 1998-2002)
• Hiroshi Motoda (since 2002. Chair 2002-2006)
• Einoshin Suzuki (since 2004. Chair 2006-2012)
• Thomas Zeugmann (since 2001)
• Hiroki Arimura (since 2006)
• Jean-François Boulicaut (since 2008)
• Bernhard Pfahringer (since 2010)
• Geoffrey Holmes (since 2010)
• Tapio Elomaa (since 2011)
• Jaakko Hollmén (since 2011)
• Djamel Zighed (since 2012)
• Jean-Marc Petit (since 2012)
• Philippe Lenca (since 2012)
• Stephane Lallich (since 2012)
2. Honorary Member
• Masahiko Sato (since 2009. Member 1998-2009)
3. Members emeriti
• Yasumasa Kanada (1998-2001)
• Akira Maruoka (1998-2001)
• Taisuke Sato (1998-2001)
• Carl H. Smith (2001-2004)
• Klaus P. Jantke (2001-2006)
• Satoru Miyano (1998-2001 and 2005-2009)
• Massimo Melucci (2004-2009)
• Tobias Scheffer (2005-2009)
• Ken Satoh (2005-2009)
• Nada Lavrac (2006-2009)
• Ljupco Todorovski (2006-2009)
• Masayuki Takeda (2007-2010)
• Vincent Corruble (2007-2010)
• Ayumi Shinohara (2001-2011)
• Tamás Horváth (2008-2011)
• Achim G. Hoffmann (2002-2012. Vice Chair 2006-2012)
• Alberto Apostolico (2002-2012)
• João Gama (2009-2012)
• Alípio Jorge (2009-2012)
• Vítor Santos Costa (2009-2012)

Rankings

1. First 5 years (1998-2002)
• Number of papers (individual contribution): 1. Einoshin Suzuki (4.00), 2. Tsuyoshi Murata (3.00), 3. Pat Langley, Daisuke Ikeda, Kuniaki Uehara (2.83), 6. Yukio Ohsawa (2.75), 7. Kazumi Saito, Kazuhisa Miwa (2.50), 9. Satoru Miyano (2.45), 10. Tomoyuki Higuchi (2.37).
• Number of papers (individual appearance): 1. Satoru Miyano, Masayuki Takeda (8), 3. Yukio Ohsawa, Setsuo Arikawa, Takashi Washio (7), 6. Pat Langley, Daisuke Ikeda, Kazumi Saito, Sachio Hirokawa, Hiroshi Motoda, Ayumi Shinohara (6).
• Number of PC members: 1. Hiroshi Motoda (5), 2. Peter A. Flach (4), 3. Claude Sammut, Katharina Morik, Koichi Furukawa, Koichi Niijima, Nada Lavrac, Randy Goebel, Shinichi Morishita, Thomas Zeugmann, Pat Langley, Carl H. Smith, Ross D. King, Ayumi Shinohara (3).
2. Second 5 years (2003-2007)
• Number of papers (individual contribution): 1. Taneli Mielikäinen (2.67), 2. Shin-ichi Minato (2.00), 3. Takeaki Uno (1.83), 4. Paulo Azevedo (1.58), 5. Parthasarathy Ramachandran, Thomas Zeugmann (1.50), 7. Jihoon Yang (1.42), 8. Masayuki Takeda (1.34), 9. Hiroki Arimura, Alípio Jorge, Luc De Raedt (1.33).
• Number of papers (individual appearance): 1. Masayuki Takeda (6), 2. Takeaki Uno, Jihoon Yang, Hideo Bannai (5), 5. Taneli Mielikäinen, Paulo Azevedo, Hiroki Arimura, Kouichi Hirata, Masateru Harao, Shunsuke Inenaga (4).
• Number of PC members: 1. Achim Hoffmann, Akihiro Yamamoto, Einoshin Suzuki, Gunter Grieser, Jan Rauch, Ljupco Todorovski, Masayuki Takeda, Michael May, Vincent Corruble (5), 10. Aleksandar Lazarevic, Andreas Dress, Fabrice Guillet, Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Fürnkranz, Kai Ming Ting, Mohand-Said Hacid, Nicolas Lachiche, Rudy Setiono, Saso Dzeroski, Tapio Elomaa (4).
3. First 10 years (1998-2007)
• Number of papers (individual contribution): 1. Einoshin Suzuki (5.20), 2. Tsuyoshi Murata (4.00), 3. Makoto Haraguchi (3.50), 4. Masayuki Takeda (3.06), 5. Pat Langley (3.03), 6. João Gama (3.00), 7. Kazumi Saito (2.95), 8. Daisuke Ikeda, Kuniaki Uehara (2.83), 10. Yukio Ohsawa (2.75), 11. Taneli Mielikäinen (2.67), 12. Hiroshi Motoda, Takashi Washio (2.62), 14. Satoru Miyano (2.59), 15. Tomoyuki Higuchi (2.53), 16. Kazuhisa Miwa (2.50), 17. Setsuo Arikawa (2.45), 18. Joseph Phillips, Sachio Hirokawa (2.33), 20. Hideo Bannai (2.04).
• Number of papers (individual appearance): 1. Masayuki Takeda (14), 2. Hiroshi Motoda, Takashi Washio, Satoru Miyano, Ayumi Shinohara (9), 6. Einoshin Suzuki, Makoto Haraguchi, Kazumi Saito, Setsuo Arikawa, Hideo Bannai, Hiroki Arimura (8), 12. Pat Langley, Yukio Ohsawa (7), 14. Daisuke Ikeda, Sachio Hirokawa, Jihoon Yang, Shunsuke Inenaga (6), 19. Kuniaki Uehara, Tomoyuki Higuchi, Paulo Azevedo, Saso Dzeroski, Takeaki Uno, Jaroslava Halova, Premysl Zak, Osamu Maruyama (5).
• Number of PC members: 1. Hiroshi Motoda, Achim Hoffmann (7), 3. Nada Lavrac, Ross D. King, Einoshin Suzuki, Gunter Grieser (6), 7. Akihiro Yamamoto, Jan Rauch, Ljupco Todorovski, Masayuki Takeda, Michael May, Vincent Corruble (5), 13. Katharina Morik, Peter A. Flach, Aleksandar Lazarevic, Andreas Dress, Fabrice Guillet, Gerhard Widmer, Johannes Fürnkranz, Kai Ming Ting, Mohand-Said Hacid, Nicolas Lachiche, Rudy Setiono, Saso Dzeroski, Tapio Elomaa (4).
4. Number of papers (individual appearance) for 1998-2011
1. Masayuki Takeda (17). 2. Hiroshi Motoda (14). 3. Einoshin Suzuki (13). 4. Setsuo Arikawa (12). 5. Hideo Bannai (11), Kazumi Saito (11). 7. Takashi Washio (10), Hiroki Arimura (10), Satoru Miyano (10), Ayumi Shinohara (10). 11. Makoto Haraguchi (8), Saso Dzeroski (8), Daisuke Ikeda (8), Kuniaki Uehara (8). 15. Yukio Ohsawa (7), João Gama (7), Shunsuke Inenaga (7), Pat Langley (7). 19. Akihiro Yamamoto (6), Heikki Mannila (6), Sachio Hirokawa (6), Jihoon Yang (6), Kohei Hatano (6). 24. Alípio Jorge (5), Johannes Fürnkranz (5), Jean Sallantin (5), Jaakko Hollmén (5), Jaroslava Halova (5), Tomoyuki Higuchi (5), Takeaki Uno (5), Vincent Corruble (5), Osamu Maruyama (5), Stefan Kramer (5), Paulo Azevedo (5), Kouichi Hirata (5), Premysl Zak (5). 37. Genta Ueno (4), Yukinobu Hamuro (4), Chiristopher Dartnell (4), Hayato Ohwada (4), Yuzuru Tanaka (4), Katsutoshi Yada (4), Tu-Bao Ho (4), Vasant Honavar (4), Tomoko Fukuda (4), Taneli Mielikäinen (4), Tetsuya Yoshida (4), Takashi Matsuda (4), Tohru Araki (4), Takeshi Shinohara (4), Stephan Muggleton (4), Tapio Elomaa (4), Ichiro Nanri (4), Naoki Katoh (4), Ljupco Todorovski (4), Luc De Raedt (4), Shinichi Morishita (4), Koichi Niijima (4), Ryohei Nakano (4), Masahiko Yoshida (4), Masateru Harao (4), Nada Lavrac (4), Tsuyoshi Murata (4), Fumio Mizoguchi (4), Koichi Furukawa (4).

DS special session

1. ISCIS 2010@London, UK
• Discovery Science ( Sep 24 2010)
2. ISCIS 2011@London, UK
• Discovery Science ( Sep 27 2011)

Other important features

1. Carl Smith Award: Carl Smith Award is given to an excellent student paper. The award carries a scholarship prize of 555 Euros. (cf. Remembering Carl Smith, 1950-2004)
• 2005: Qianjun Xu: Active Constrained Clustering by Examining Spectral Eigenvectors (co-authored with Marie desJardins, Kiri Wagstaff). Award Committee: Achim G. Hoffmann and Tobias Scheffer.
• 2006: Rita Ribeiro:  Rule-based Prediction of Rare Extreme Values (co-authored with Luis Torgo). Award Committee: Hiroshi Motoda, Nada Lavrac, Ljupco Todorovski, and Klaus P.Jantke.
• 2007: Kazuyuki Narisawa: Unsupervised Spam Detection Based on String Alienness Measures (co-authored with Hideo Bannai, Kohei Hatano and Masayuki Takeda). Award Committee: Achim G. Hoffmann, Ljupco Todorovski, and Vincent Corruble. Process: 1. The PC Chairs identified 11 long papers eligible for the award because each of them has at least one student as its author. 2. Among the 11 papers, the Steering Committee Chair has decided that 5 papers will be reviewed by the award committee due to their higher average scores for overall recommendation. 3. The Steering Committee Chair has nominated Achim, Ljupco, and Vincent as the Award Committee Members because they have served or is serving as a PC Chair of DS in 2005, 2006, and 2007, respectively; and they have no conflict of interest with the authors of the 5 nominated papers. The Award Committee consists of the 3 persons. 4. After a rigorous process, Achim reported the decision.
• 2008: Kurt De Grave: Active Learning for High Throughput Screening (co-authored with Jan Ramon and Luc De Raedt.) Award Committee: Einoshin Suzuki(Chair), Jean-François Boulicaut (INSA Lyon, Lyon, France), Michael R. Berthold (University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany). Process: 1. The PC Chairs identified 3 papers eligible for the award because each of them has the highest review marks and positive, useful reviews. 2. A PC Chair suggested the Steering Committee Chair that the Award Committee consists of 3 persons: the Steering Committee Chair and the PC Chairs; and the Steering Committee Chair chairs the Award Committee. They have no conflict of interest with the authors of the 3 nominated papers. 3. After a rigorous process, the Award Committee reported the decision.
• 2009: Jan-Nikolas Sulzmann: An Empirical Comparison of Probability Estimation Techniques for Probabilistic Rules (co-authored with Johannes Fürnkranz.) Award Committee: Achim G. Hoffmann (Chair), João Gama, Vítor Santos Costa, Alípio Jorge. Process: 1. The two PC Chairs and the Conference Chair identified three student papers with best reviewer rank as eligible for the award. 2. The Steering Committee Chair nominated the Vice Steering Committee Chair as the Award Committee Chair. The Award Committee Chair nominated the Conference Chair and the two PC Chairs as the Award Committee Members. Thus the Award Committee consists of four persons, who have no conflict of interest with the authors of the three nominated papers. 3. Considerations taken which lead to the decision included significance, the degree of originality - also compared to other papers of the authors - the number of co-authors and the degree of seniority as a researcher.
• 2010: Chris Lovell and Gareth Jones: An Artificial Experimenter for Enzymatic Response Characterisation (co-authored with Steve R. Gunn and Klaus-Peter Zauner.) Award Committee: Achim G. Hoffmann, Bernhard Pfahringer, Geoffrey Holmes.
• 2011: Sami Hanhijärvi: Multiple Hypothesis Testing in Pattern Discovery. Award Committee: Jean-François Boulicaut (Chair), Tapio Elomaa, Jaakko Hollmén. Process: 1. The Steering Committee Chair nominated Jean-Francois Boulicaut as the Award Committee Chair and the two PC chairs as members of the Award Committee. 2. The members of the Award Committee reviewed all student papers and identified three student papers with best reviewer grades as eligible for the award. The members had no conflict of interest with the authors of the three nominated persons. There are no supervisory responsibilities nor joint publications with any of the candidates. 3. Considerations were taken which lead to the decision included significance, the degree of originality, and the number of co-authoring senior authors. As the result, the winner is the sole author of the paper.
• 2012: Willy Ugarte: Soft Threshold Constraints for Pattern Mining. Award Committee: Tapio Elomaa (Chair), Bernhard Pfahringer (Co-Chair), Philippe Lenca, Jean-Marc Petit. Process: The members of the Award Committee reviewed all student papers and identified three student papers with best reviewer grades as eligible for the award. The members had no conflict of interest with the authors of the three nominated papers. Evaluation criteria taken into account which lead to the decision included significance, the degree of originality, and relevance to discovery science research.
2. Mentoring Program: 2005-2011. Students who are first authors of papers are invited to submit a paper draft on or before the mentoring deadline. They will receive a comments from a PC member that will help them to prepare the final submission
3. ALT conference series
4. DS SC Page (User name and password required) (will be available)
5. Contact: DS Steering Committee Chair
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