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CALL FOR PAPERS

The Fourteenth International Conference
on Discovery Science (DS 2011)

October 5-7, 2011, Espoo, Finland

http://ds2011.org

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-- Call for Papers

The Fourteenth International Conference on Discovery
Science - DS 2011 - provides an open forum for intensive
discussions and exchange of new ideas among researchers
working in the area of Discovery Science. The scope of
the conference includes the development and analysis of
methods for automatic scientific knowledge discovery,
machine learning, intelligent data analysis, theory of
learning, as well as their application to knowledge
discovery. Papers that strongly focus on the discovery
aspect of the reported work are especially welcome.

We invite submissions of research papers addressing all
aspects of discovery science. We particularly welcome
contributions that discuss the application of scientific
knowledge discovery and other support techniques
including, but not limited to, biologocal, biomedical,
astronomical, space, chemistry, and physics domains.

-- Important Dates:

Full paper submission: 18th May, 2011
Author notification: 30th June, 2011
Camera-ready papers: 10th July, 2011

Important dates for all attendees:

Early registration deadline: 30th August, 2011
DS 2011 conference dates: 5th to 7th October, 2011

-- Submission Topics

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Logic and philosophy of scientific discovery
* Knowledge discovery, machine learning, and statistical
methods
* Ubiquitous Knowledge Discovery
* Data Streams, Evolving Data and Models
* Change Detection and Model Maintenance
* Active Knowledge Discovery
* Learning from Text and web mining
* Information extraction from scientific literature
* Knowledge discovery from heterogeneous, unstructured
and multimedia data
* Knowledge discovery in network and link data
* Knowledge discovery in social networks
* Data and knowledge visualization
* Spatial/Temporal Data
* Mining graphs and structured data
* Planning to Learn
* Knowledge Transfer
* Computational Creativity
* Human-machine interaction for knowledge discovery and
management
* Biomedical knowledge discovery, analysis of
microarray and gene deletion data
* Machine Learning for High-Performance Computing, Grid
and Cloud Computing
* Applications of the above techniques to natural or
social sciences
* Other applications of the above techniques

-- Paper Submission:

Papers may contain up to fifteen (15) pages and must be
formatted according to the layout supplied by Springer
Verlag for the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)
series.

Detailed information about the submission procedure is
available on the homepage at http://ds2011.org

-- Mentoring program:

Following the success of the previous years, DS 2011 is
again featuring the mentoring program. Students who are
first authors of papers are invited to submit a paper
draft, before the mentoring deadline (1st of May). The
authors will receive comments from a PC member that will
help them prepare their final submission. Final paper
submission should follow regular paper procedure, with
abstract and full paper submission. See full details
about the submission on the homepage: http://ds2011.org

-- Organization:

Conference Chair

* Heikki Mannila, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

Program Committee Co-Chairs

* Tapio Elomaa, Tampere University of Technology,
Tampere, Finland

* Jaakko Hollmen, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

Local Organization Chair

* Olli Simula, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

-- Further information

More detailed information can be found on the homepage
of the Discovery Science 2011 at http://ds2011.org or by
contacting the organizers.