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Call for Papers: Discovery Science 2003
The 6th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS03)
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
October 17-19, 2003
www.intellektik.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/DS03/
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GENERAL INFORMATION:
The 6th International Conference on Discovery Science
(DS 2003) will be held at the Hokkaido University, Sapporo,
Japan, during October 17-19, 2003. DS 2003 will be co-
located with the 14th International Conference on Algorithmic
Learning Theory. The two conferences will be held in
parallel, and they will share their invited talks.
We are now encountered to a rapidly growing digital network
society. Information available for each person is tremendously large
and therefore is far beyond our capability for analyzing and
understanding. A new generation of computational techniques and tools
is required to support the extraction and the discovery of useful
knowledge from the rapidly growing volumes of data. Raw data is
rarely of direct benefit. Its true value is reflected by our ability
to extract information useful for decision support or for exploration
and understanding of the phenomena exhibited in the data source.
The main objective of DS 2003 is to provide an open forum
for intensive discussions and interchange of new information
among researchers working in the area of Discovery Science.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Submission Deadline: April 12, 2003
Notification of Acceptance June 1, 2003
Camera-ready Due July 1, 2003
Conference October 17-19, 2003
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
We invite submissions from (but not limited to) the following areas:
logic for/of knowledge discovery; knowledge discovery by inferences;
abductive reasoning; heuristic search; constructive programming as
discovery; knowledge discovery from texts and the Web; knowledge
discovery from unstructured and multimedia data; knowledge discovery
in databases; data mining; data and knowledge visualization; active
mining; knowledge discovery in network environments; intelligent
network agents; machine learning; statistical methods and neural
networks for knowledge discovery; Bayesian networks; knowledge
discovery and human interaction; human factors in knowledge discovery;
philosophy and psychology of discovery; chance discovery; scientific
discovery; application of knowledge discovery to natural and social
sciences.
INVITED TALKS:
There will be several invited talks by prominent researchers in the
field.
TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS:
There are two types of submissions: long and short papers. For short
papers, beside a short introduction at the conference, there is the
opportunity to present the results in a special poster session.
SUBMISSIONS:
Submission consists of two parts. First, authors are requested to
electronically submit title, type of submission (long or short paper),
authors' names, postal and e-mail addresses, an approximately 200 word
summary and keywords. Second, authors are requested to submit an
electronic version of their papers. Details are provided at the
conference homepage. If electronic submission is not possible,
authors may also submit six hardcopies of their paper.
FORMAT:
Papers consist of a cover page and a body. The cover page contains
title, type of submission, authors' names, postal and e-mail
addresses, an approximately 200 word summary, and keywords. The body
must be formatted according to the layout supplied by the
Springer-Verlag for the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. For
long papers, the body must not exceed twelve (12) pages. For short
papers, the body must not exceed five (5) pages. Overlengthy
submissions or submissions not following the layout may be rejected
without review. Important Dates: Papers must be received by April 12,
2003. Notification of acceptance will be emailed to the first (or
designated) author by June 1, 2003. Camera-ready copy of accepted
papers will be due July 1, 2003.
POLICY:
Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the members of the program
committee supported by an international board of reviewers, and
selected on the basis of its importance in Discovery Science from
theoretical and/or practical viewpoints in addition to the originality
and the clarity of presentation. If there are more long papers to be
accepted than we do have space for, we reserve the right to accapt
such papers as short papers. Papers that have appeared in journals or
other conferences are not appropriate for DS 2003.
PROCEEDINGS:
The conference proceedings will be published as a volume of the
Lecture Notes in AI series, Springer, and will be available at the
conference. Papers will only be included if at least one author is
registered for the conference.
ORGANIZATION:
Conference Chair:
Yuzuru Tanaka (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
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Program Committee Chairs:
Gunter Grieser (Technical Univ. Darmstadt, Germany)
Akihiro Yamamoto (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
Program Committee:
Simon Colton (Imperial College London, UK)
Vincent Corruble (Univ. P. et M. Curie Paris, France)
Johannes F�rnkranz (Research Inst. for AI, Austria)
Achim Hoffmann (Univ. of New South Wales, Australia)
Naresh Iyer (GE Global Research Center, USA)
John R. Josephson (Ohio State Univ., USA)
Eamonn Keogh (Univ. of California, USA)
Mineichi Kudo (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
Nicolas Lachiche (Univ. Strasbourg, France)
Steffen Lange (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
Lorenzo Magnani (Univ. of Pavia, Italy)
Michael May (Fraunhofer Inst. St. Augustin, Germany)
Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka Univ., Japan)
Nancy J. Nersessian (Georgia Inst. of Technology, USA)
Vladimir Pericliev (Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria)
Jan Rauch (Univ. of Economics, Czech Republic)
Henk W. de Regt (Free Univ. Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Ken Satoh (National Inst. of Informatics, Japan)
Tobias Scheffer (TU Magdeburg, Germany)
Einoshin Suzuki (Yokohama National Univ., Japan)
Masayuki Takeda (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
Ljupco Todorovski (Jozef Stefan Inst., Slovenia)
Gerhard Widmer (Univ. of Vienna, Austria)
Local Arrangements:
Makoto Haraguchi (Hokkaido Univ., Japan)
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CONFERENCE HOMEPAGE:
www.intellektik.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/DS03/
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