Discovery Science 15th International Conference, DS 2012, Lyon,

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2012, held in Lyon, France, in October 2012. The 22 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The

  • PDF / 10,361,607 Bytes
  • 340 Pages / 439.363 x 666.131 pts Page_size
  • 119 Downloads / 196 Views

DOWNLOAD

REPORT


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

7569

Jean-Gabriel Ganascia Philippe Lenca Jean-Marc Petit (Eds.)

Discovery Science 15th International Conference, DS 2012 Lyon, France, October 29-31, 2012 Proceedings

13

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 Jean-Gabriel Ganascia Parix VI University, LIP6 Laboratory 4, place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, France E-mail: [email protected] Philippe Lenca Telecom Bretagne, UMR 6285 Lab-STICC Technopôle Brest-Iroise - CS 83818, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France E-mail: [email protected] Jean-Marc Petit INSA Lyon, UMR 5205 LIRIS 7, avenue Jean Capelle, 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France E-mail: [email protected]

ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-33491-7 e-ISBN 978-3-642-33492-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-33492-4 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012947814 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

© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, re-use of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Typesetting: Camera-ready by author, data conversion by Scientific Publishing Services, Chennai, India Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Preface

This volume, LNAI 7569, contains the papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2012), held in Lyon, France, October 29–31, 2012. In the last few years, with the considerable amount of automatically generated scientific data and with the development of in silico experiments, it has become essential to automate hypothesis generation and testing in many domains of scientific activity, e.g., in molecular biology, medicine, astronomy, physics, social sciences, etc. It is not only a new fancy that could lead to mechanize discoveries and creative processes, but a necessity for almost all contemporary scientists who have to manage large quantities of information stored in huge data warehou