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Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science

3735

Achim Hoffmann Hiroshi Motoda Tobias Scheffer (Eds.)

Discovery Science 8th International Conference, DS 2005 Singapore, October 8 – 11, 2005 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 Achim Hoffmann University of New South Wales School of Computer Science and Engineering Sydney 2052 NSW, Australia E-mail: [email protected] Hiroshi Motoda Osaka University Department of Advance Reasoning Division of Intelligent System Science Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka, 567 Japan E-mail: [email protected] Tobias Scheffer Humboldt University Berlin Department of Computer Science Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany E-mail: [email protected]

Library of Congress Control Number: 2005933095

CR Subject Classification (1998): I.2, H.2.8, H.3, J.1, J.2 ISSN ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0302-9743 3-540-29230-6 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York 978-3-540-29230-2 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

This volume contains the papers presented at the 8th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2005) held in Singapore, Republic of Singapore, during the days from 8–11 of October 2005. 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 in this tradition, DS 2005 was co-located with the 16th ALT conference (ALT 2005). The proceedings of ALT 2005 were published as a twin volume 3734 of the LNCS series. The International Steering Committee of the Di