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<font face='Lucida Grande' size='4'><b>*** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ***<br></b><br>21st International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2018)<br><br>St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 30-31 October, 2018<br><br><a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMXN0IEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBEaXNjb3ZlcnkgU2NpZW5jZSAoRFMgMjAxOCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwkxNzMJTGlzdHMJMTY2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyprusconferences.org%2Fds2018">http://www.cyprusconferences.org/ds2018</a><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande'><br>(*** In conjunction with ISMIS 2018 ***)<br><br><br><b><u>WELCOME</u></b><br><br>The 21st International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2018) provides<br>an open forum for intensive discussions and exchange of new ideas among<br>researchers working in the area of Discovery Science. <br><br>The scope of the conference includes the development and analysis of<br>methods for discovering scientific knowledge, coming from machine<br>learning, data mining, intelligent data analysis, big data analysis as well as<br>their application in various scientific domains. <br><br>We welcome papers that focus on the analysis of different types of massive<br>and complex data, including structured, spatio-temporal and network data.<br>We particularly welcome papers addressing applications. Finally, we would<br>like to encourage contributions from the areas of computational<br>scientific discovery, mining scientific data, computational creativity and<br>discovery informatics. <br><br>DS 2018 will be co-located with ISMIS 2018, the 24th International<br>Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. The two conferences<br>will be held in parallel, and will share their invited talks. <br><br><br><b><u>TOPICS</u></b><br><br>We invite submissions of research papers addressing all aspects of<br>discovery science. We particularly welcome contributions that discuss the<br>application of data analysis, data mining and other support techniques for<br>scientific discovery including, but not limited to, biomedical, astronomical<br>and other physics domains. Applications to massive, heterogeneous,<br>continuous or imprecise data sets are of particular interests. Possible topics<br>include, but are not limited to: <br><br>• Knowledge discovery, machine learning and statistical methods <br>• Ubiquitous knowledge discovery <br>• Data streams, evolving data and models <br>• Change detection and model maintenance <br>• Active knowledge discovery <br>• Learning from text and web mining <br>• Information extraction from scientific literature <br>• Knowledge discovery from heterogeneous, unstructured and<br> multimedia data <br>• Knowledge discovery in network and link data <br>• Knowledge discovery in social networks <br>• Data and knowledge visualization <br>• Spatial/temporal Data <br>• Mining graphs and structured data <br>• Planning to learn <br>• Knowledge transfer <br>• Computational creativity <br>• Human-machine interaction for knowledge discovery and management <br>• Biomedical knowledge discovery and analysis <br>• Machine learning for high-performance computing, grid and<br> cloud computing <br>• Applications of the above techniques to natural or social sciences <br><br><br><b><u>PAPER SUBMISSION<br></u></b><br>Papers may contain up to fifteen (15) pages and must be formatted<br>according to the layout supplied by Springer-Verlag for the Lecture Notes<br>in Computer Science series. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or<br>be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal,<br>nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the DS<br>2018 review process<br><br>Authors can submit their papers electronically via our submission page<br>through Easychair: <a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMXN0IEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBEaXNjb3ZlcnkgU2NpZW5jZSAoRFMgMjAxOCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwkxNzMJTGlzdHMJMTY2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair.org%2Fconferences%2F%3Fconf%3Dds20180">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ds20180</a> .<u><br><b><br></u></b><br><b><u>PUBLICATION AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES<br></u></b><br>The DS 2018 proceedings will be published by Springer in LNAI<br>(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) and will be available at the<br>conference.<br><br>Authors of best papers will be invited to submit their extended versions to<br>the Machine Learning journal (<a href="http://www.cs.ucy.ac.cy/~george/lm/lm.php?tk=c2NlLmNhcmxldG9uLmNhICwJCQlmZy1hcmNAbGlzdHMudW5pLXBhZGVyYm9ybi5kZQkyMXN0IEludGVybmF0aW9uYWwgQ29uZmVyZW5jZSBvbiBEaXNjb3ZlcnkgU2NpZW5jZSAoRFMgMjAxOCk6IEZpcnN0IENhbGwgZm9yIFBhcGVycwkxNzMJTGlzdHMJMTY2CWNsaWNrCXllcwlubw==&url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Fjournal%2F10994%29">https://link.springer.com/journal/10994)</a><br>published by Springer. Fast Track Processing will be used to have them<br>reviewed and published.<br><br><br><b><u>IMPORTANT DATES<br></u></b><br>• Paper Submissions due: 28th June 2018<br>• Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 18th July 2018<br>• Camera-Ready Versions of Accepted Papers: 28th July 2018<br>• Author Registration: 31st Juy 2018<br>• Early Non-Author Registration: 10th September 2018<br>• Late Non-Author Registration: after 10th September 2018<br><br><br><b><u>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE<br></u></b><br><u>General Chair</u><br>• George Angelos Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)<br><br><u>Program Committee Co-Chairs</u><br>• Larisa Soldatova, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK<br>• Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands<br></font>
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