Discovery Science 10th International Conference, DS 2007 Sendai,

This volume contains the papers presented at DS-2007:The Tenth International Conference on Discovery Science held in Sendai, Japan, October 1–4, 2007. The main objective of the Discovery Science (DS) conference series is to p- vide an open forum for inten

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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

4755

Vincent Corruble Masayuki Takeda Einoshin Suzuki (Eds.)

Discovery Science 10th International Conference, DS 2007 Sendai, Japan, October 1-4, 2007 Proceedings

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Series Editors Jaime G. Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Vincent Corruble Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6) Laboratoire d’Informatique de Paris 6 104 avenue du Président Kennedy, 75016 Paris, France E-mail: [email protected] Masayuki Takeda Einoshin Suzuki Kyushu University Department of Informatics 744 Motooka, Nishi, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan E-mail: {takeda, suzuki}@i.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Library of Congress Control Number: 2007935939

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.2.8, H.3, J.1, J.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

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Preface

This volume contains the papers presented at DS-2007: The Tenth International Conference on Discovery Science held in Sendai, Japan, October 1–4, 2007. The main objective of the Discovery Science (DS) conference series is to provide an open forum for intensive discussions and the exchange of new ideas and information among researchers working in the area of automating scientific discovery or working on tools for supporting the human process of discovery in science. It has been a successful arrangement in the past to co-locate the DS conference with the International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT). This combination of ALT and DS allows for a comprehensive treatment of the whole range, from theoretical investigations to practical applications. Continuing this tradition, DS 2007 was co-located with the 18th ALT conference (ALT 2007). The proceedings of ALT 2007 were published as a twin volume 4754 of the LNCS series. The International Steering Committee of the Discovery Science conference series provided important advice on a number of issues during the planning of Discovery Science 2007. The members of the Steering Committee are Einosh