DM: DS99 Call For Papers

[Koichi Furukawa]

Submission Dead Line Extended to June 15.

             (Apologies if you receive multiple copies)  

                         Call for Papers

                      Discovery Science 1999


       The Second International Conference on Discovery Science
          Waseda University International Conference Center,
                           Tokyo, Japan
                        December 6-8, 1999

The second international conference on Discovery Science (DS'99) will
be held at Waseda University International Conference Center, Tokyo,
Japan, from December 6 to 8, 1999.  The conference will be sponsored
by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area "Discovery
Science", in cooperation with Japanese Society for Artificial
Intelligence, and with SIG of Data Mining, Japan Society for Software
Science and Technology. The conference will be colocated with the
Tenth International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory
(ALT'99).

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 "Discovery Science" is a three year project from 1998 to 2000 that
aims to (1) develop new methods for knowledge discovery, (2)
install network environments for knowledge discovery, and (3)
establish the Discovery Science as a new area of Computer Science. A
systematic research is planned that ranges over philosophy, logic,
reasoning, computational learning and system developments. We are now
close to the end of the first year and quite a few new research
results are being expected.

The main objective of this conference is to provide an open forum for
intensive discussions and interchange of new information among
researchers working in the new area of Discovery Science. We believe
that such forum will be of benefit to the participants of the
conference as well as to the "Discovery Science" project.

Topics of interest within the scope of this conference include, but
not limited to, the following areas: Logic for/of knowledge discovery,
knowledge discovery by inferences, knowledge discovery by learning
algorithms, knowledge discovery by heuristic search, scientific
discovery, knowledge discovery in databases, data mining, knowledge
discovery in network environments, inductive logic programming,
abductive reasoning, machine learning, constructive programming as
discovery, intelligent network agents, knowledge discovery from
unstructured and multimedia data, statistical methods for knowledge
discovery, data and knowledge visualization, knowledge discovery and
human interaction, and human factors in knowledge discovery.

Invited lectures will be delivered by Professor Donald Michie
(University of Edinburgh), Professor Stuart Russell (University of
California, Berkeley), Professor Jan M Zytkow (University of North
Carolina). There will be three more invited speakers invited by 
ALT'99:
Katharina Morik (University of Dortmund), Robert Schapire (AT&T 
Shannon
Lab.),
and Kenji Yamanishi (NEC).

Submissions
  Authors are requested to email postscript files  of their papers to

       ds99-pc@sfc.keio.ac.jp

    or send six copies of them to

       Koichi Furukawa
       Graduate School of Media and Governance,
       Keio University
       5322 Endoh, Fujisawa-shi, 
       Kanagawa 252 Japan.

       Electronic submission is highly preferred.

       Papers must be received by June 15, 1999.
       Notification of acceptance will be emailed to the first (or
       designated) author by July 15, 1999.
       Camera-ready copy of accepted papers will be due August 15, 
1999.

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 DS99 home page:
      http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds99, through a link to the
      Springer's web site, where you can find the style files for
      LaTeX2e, LaTex, Tex and the template for MS Word.  However,
      authors are strongly recommended to use LaTeX2e.

Policy
      Each submitted paper will be reviewed by the members of the
      program committee, 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 DS'99.

      We are planning to publish the proceedings as a volume in the
      Lecture Notes Series in Artificial Intelligence,
      Springer-Verlag.

Conference Chair:
      Setsuo Arikawa
      Department of Informatics,
      Kyushu University
      Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
      arikawa@i.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Program Committee:
      K. Furukawa (Chair, Keio U., Japan)
      P. Flach (U. Bristol, UK)
      R. G. Goebel (U. Alberta, Canada)
      R. King (U. Wales, UK)
      Y. Kodratoff (Paris-Sud, France)
      P. Langley (Inst. for the Study of Learning & Expertise, USA)
      N. Lavrac (Jozef Stefan Inst., Slovenia)
      H. Mannila (Microsoft Research, USA)
      K. Morik (U. Dortmund, Germany) 
      S. Morishita (U. Tokyo, Japan)
      H. Motoda (Osaka U., Japan)
      S. Muggleton (York University, UK)
      K. Niijima (Kyushu U., Japan)
      T. Nishida (Naist, Japan) 
      K. Noe (Tohoku University, Japan)
      H. Ono (Jaist, Japan) 
      C. Sammut (U. NSW, Australia) 
      C. Smith (U. Maryland, USA)
      Y. Tanaka (Hokkaido U., Japan)
      E. Ukkonen (U. Helsinki, Finland)
      R. E. Valdes-Perez (CMU, USA) 
      T. Zeugmann (Kyushu U., Japan)

Local Arrangements Committee:
      S. Miyano (Chair, U. Tokyo, Japan)
      S. Goto (Waseda U., Japan)
      S. Morishita (U. Tokyo, Japan)
      A. Shinohara (Kyushu U., Japan)

Steering Committee for DS Series:
      S. Arikawa (Chair, Kyushu University, Japan)
      Y. Kanada (U. Tokyo, Japan)
      A. Maruoka (Tohoku U., Japan)
      S. Miyano (U. Tokyo, Japan)
      M. Sato (Kyoto U., Japan)
      T. Sato (TiTech, Japan)

Call for  Posters and Demos

      DS'99 also invites posters and software demonstrations as an
      important part of the conference.  For poster and demo, send a
      two-page abstract (in the same style of the ordinary papers) by
      email to 

           ds99@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp. 

      After a reviewing process by PC committee, the accepted
      abstracts will be included in the proceedings.

      Abstracts must be received by July 1, 1999.
      Notification of acceptance will be emailed to the first (or
      designated) author by July 26, 1999.
      Camera-ready copy of accepted abstracts will be due August 15,
1999.

      For software demonstrations, a limited number of computer
      equipments will be available. Please contact
      ds99@ims.u-tokyo.ac.jp. 

      For the latest information, please visit
      http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds99.