Discovery Science 2007 (18 May 2007 / 1-4 October 2007)

The Discovery Science 2007 Call for Papers is out. The conference will be held in Sendai, Japan this year. The proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer. This is a data mining conference will all the usual content, but with an emphasis on supporting scientific research:

We particularly welcome contributions that discuss the application of data analysis and other support techniques for scientific discovery including, but not limited to, biomedical, astronomical and other physics domains.

The suggested topics are as you would expect:

• Logic and philosophy of scientific discovery,
• Knowledge discovery, machine learning and statistical methods,
• Active knowledge discovery,
• Text and web mining,
• Information extraction from scientific literature,
• Knowledge discovery from text and the web,
• Knowledge discovery from unstructured and multimedia data,
• Knowledge discovery in network and link data,
• Knowledge discovery in social networks,
• Data and knowledge visualization,
• Data Streams,
• Spatial/Temporal Data,
• Human-machine interaction for knowledge discovery and management,
• Biomedical knowledge discovery, analysis of microarray and gene deletion data,
• Applications of the above techniques to natural or social sciences,
• Other applications of the above techniques.