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The 5th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS2002) Venue: Moevenpick Hotel, Luebeck, Germany Conference Web Page: http://www.dfki.de/~lange/ds2002.html

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission Deadline May 12, 2002
Notification of Acceptance July 1, 2002
Camera-ready Due August 2, 2002
Conference November 24-26, 2002

The 5th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS2002) will be held at Moevenpick Hotel, Luebeck, Germany, on November 24-26, 2002. DS2002 will be co-located with the 13th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT2002). The two conferences will be held in parallel, and they will share their invited talks.

The main objective of DS2002 is to provide an open forum for intensive discussions and interchange of new information among researchers working in the area of Discovery Science.

TOPICS OF INTEREST: We invite submissions from the following areas (but not limited to): logic for/of knowledge discovery; knowledge discovery by inferences, learning algorithms, and heuristic search; scientific discovery; knowledge discovery in databases; data mining; knowledge discovery in network environments; active mining; inductive logic programming; abductive reasoning; machine learning; constructive programming as discovery; intelligent network agents; knowledge discovery from texts and from unstructured and multimedia data; statistical methods and neural networks for knowledge discovery; data and knowledge visualization; knowledge discovery and human interaction; human factors in knowledge discovery; philosophy and psychology of discovery; chance discovery; application of knowledge discovery to natural science such as bioinformatics, biology, chemistry and astronomy; application of knowledge discovery to social science such as economics, sociology, literature and music.

PROCEEDINGS Proceedings will be published as a volume of the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series, Springer-Verlag and will be available at the conference.