CFP

The 6th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS03)
Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
October 17-19, 2003
www.intellektik.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/DS03/

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.

For additional information, please see the conference homepage:

www.intellektik.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/DS03/