Call for papers

The 15th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS-2012) will be held in Lyon, France, on 29-31 October 2012.

DS-2012 will be collocated with ALT-2012, the 23rd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory. The two conferences will be held in parallel, and will share their invited talks.

Traditionally the proceedings of DS series appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer-Verlag. In addition a special issue on Discovery Science is planned in a prestigious journal.

DS 2012 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. Very welcome are papers that focus on dynamic and evolving data, models and structures.

Important Dates are:

Full paper submission: 17th May 25th May, 2012 (extended)
Author notification: 8th July, 2012
Camera-ready papers due: 17th July, 2012
Conference: 29-31 Oct. 2012

Submissions

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

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 series. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the DS 2012 review process.

An excellent student paper will be selected to receive the Carl Smith Award. The award carries a scholarship prize of 555 euros.

Submission Topics

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

Philippe Lenca
Jean-Marc Petit
Co-chairs of the PC