Discovery Science 14th International Conference, DS 2011, Espoo,

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2011, held in Espoo, Finland, in October 2011 - co-located with ALT 2011, the 22nd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory. The 24

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NAI Founding Series Editor Joerg Siekmann DFKI and Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

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Tapio Elomaa Jaakko Hollmén Heikki Mannila (Eds.)

Discovery Science 14th International Conference, DS 2011 Espoo, Finland, October 5-7, 2011 Proceedings

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Series Editors Randy Goebel, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Jörg Siekmann, University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI and University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany Volume Editors Tapio Elomaa Tampere University of Technology, Department of Software Systems P.O. Box 553, 33101 Tampere, Finland E-mail: [email protected].fi Jaakko Hollmén Heikki Mannila Aalto University School of Science Department of Information and Computer Science P.O. Box 15400, 00076 Aalto, Finland E-mail:{jaakko.hollmen, heikki.mannila}@aalto.fi

ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-24476-6 e-ISBN 978-3-642-24477-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-24477-3 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011937030 CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.3, H.4, H.2.8, J.1, H.5, C.2 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 7 – Artificial Intelligence

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Preface

We are pleased to present the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2011), held in Espoo, Finland, during October 5-7, 2011. DS 2011 provided 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. DS 2011 was co-located with the 22nd International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2011). The proceedings of ALT 2011 appeared as companion volume number 6925 in the Springer LNCS series. This year we had a decennial celebration of the fruitful co-location of the ALT and DS