Call for papers

      The 5th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS2002)
                    Moevenpick Hotel, Luebeck, Germany
                            November 24-26, 2002
                    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.

MAIN OBJECTIVE
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 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.

SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are requested to submit their papers in electronic form
(for the details, visit
 http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/ds2002submission.html)
or send six copies of them to
  DS2002 c/o Prof. Ken Satoh
  National Institute of Informatics
  2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo
  101-8430, Japan.
Electronic submission is highly preferred.
Papers must be received by May 12, 2002.
Notification of acceptance will be emailed to the first (or designated)
author by July 1, 2002.
Camera-ready copy of accepted papers will be due August 2, 2001.

Format:
The paper should consist of a cover page with title, authors' names,
postal and e-mail addresses, an approximately 200 word summary, and a
body not longer than twelve pages under the style files supplied by
Springer-Verlag. The style files and authors instructions can be
obtained from the web site of Springer-Verlag
(http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html).

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. Papers that have appeared in journals
or other conferences are not appropriate for DS2002.

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.

Call for Posters:
DS2002 also invites posters as an important part of the
conference. For posters, authors are requested to submit a five page
abstract (in the same style as for the ordinary papers) in electronic
form (for the details, visit
 http://research.nii.ac.jp/~ksatoh/ds2002submission.html)

After a reviewing process by PC committee, the accepted abstracts will
be included in the proceedings, although the page-limit may be
possibly shortened.  Abstracts must be received by May 24, 2002.
Notification of acceptance will be strongailed to the first (or
designated) author by July 1, 2002.  Camera-ready copy of accepted
abstracts will be due August 2, 2002.

ORGANIZATION:
Conference Chair:
  Carl H. Smith (Univ. of Maryland, USA)
Program Committee:
  Steffen Lange (Co-chair, DFKI GmbH, Germany)
  Ken Satoh (Co-chair, National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
  Diane J. Cook (Univ. of Texas at Arlington, USA)
  Andreas Dengel (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
  Peter A. Flach (Univ. of Bristol, UK)
  Gunter Grieser (TU Darmstadt, Germany)
  Achim Hoffmann (UNSW, Australia)
  Klaus P. Jantke (DFKI GmbH, Germany)
  John R. Josephson (Ohio State Univ., USA)
  Pat Langley (ISLE, USA)
  Bing Liu (National Univ., Singapore)
  Heikki Mannila (Helsinki Univ. of Techn., Finland)
  Hiroshi Motoda (Osaka Univ., Japan)
  Stephan Muggleton (Imperial College, UK)
  Ryohei Nakano (Nagoya Inst. Techn., Japan)
  Yukio Ohsawa (Tsukuba Univ., Japan)
  Jorge C.G. Ramirez (Intelligent Tech. Corp., USA)
  Ayumi Shinohara (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
  Stefan Wrobel (Techn. Univ. Magdeburg, Germany)
  Kenji Yamanishi (NEC Co. Ltd., Japan)
Local Arrangements:
  Andreas Jacoby (Med. Univ. Luebeck, Germany)
  Thomas Zeugmann (Med. Univ. Luebeck, Germany)