=============================================================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION DS2000 The Third International Conference on Discovery Science December 4-6, 2000 Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan Early registration deadline: October 31, 2000. Further information: http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds2000/ Inquiry: ds2000@sato.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp =============================================================================== PRELIMINARY PROGRAM December 4th, Monday ==================== 13:00-13:10 Opening 13:10-14:10 Invited Talk I Jeffrey D. Ullman A Survey of Association-Rule Mining 14:30-16:00 Discovery in WWW Hayato Ohwada and Fumio Mizoguchi: Integrating Information Visualization and Retrieval for Discovering Internet Sources. Gunter Grieser, Klaus P. Jantke, Steffen Lange, and Bernd Thomas: A Unifying Approach to HTML Wrapper Representation and Learning. Tsuyoshi Murata: Discovery of Web Communities Based on the Co-occurrence of References. 16:20-17:50 Scientific Discovery I Panu Somervuo and Teuvo Kohonen: Clustering and Visualization of Large Protein Sequence Databases by Means of an Extension of the Self-Organizing Map. Tatsuya Akutsu, Satoru Miyano, and Satoru Kuhara: A Simple Greedy Algorithm for Finding Functional Relations: Efficient Implementation and Average Case Analysis. Takashi Matsuda, Tadashi Horiuchi, Hiroshi Motoda, and Takashi Washio: Graph-Based Induction for General Graph Structured Data and its Application to Chemical Compound Data. 18:00-20:00 Reception at Kyoto Research Park ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 5th, Tuesday ===================== 10:15-10:45 Text Mining Masayuki Takeda, Tetsuya Matsumoto, Tomoko Fukuda, and Ichiro Nanri: Discovering Characteristic Expressions from Literary Works: A New Text Analysis Method beyond N-gram Statistics and KWIC. 11:00-12:00 Invited Talk II Joseph Y. Halpern Degrees of Brief, Random Worlds, and Maximum Entropy 12:00-13:30 Luncheon 13:30-14:30 Foundations of Machine Discovery I Masahiro Hirao, Hiromasa Hoshino, Ayumi Shinohara, Masayuki Takeda, and Setsuo Arikawa: A Practical Algorithm to Find the Best Subsequence Patterns. Jun Mizuno, Tatsuya Watanabe, Kazuya Ueki, Kazuyuki Amano, Eiji Takimoto, and Akira Maruoka: On-line Estimation of Hidden Markov Model Parameters. 14:45-15:45 Invited Talk III Masami Hagiya and Koichi Takahashi Discovery and Deduction 16:00-18:00 Poster Session 19:00-21:00 Banquet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- December 6th, Wednesday ======================= 9:30-10:30 Foundations of Machine Discovery II Hyeoncheol Kim: Computationally Efficient Heuristics for If-Then Rule Extraction from Feed-Forward Neural Networks. Yasuhito Mukouchi and Masako Sato: Language Learning with a Neighbor System. 10:45-12:15 Scientific Discovery II Genta Ueno, Nagatomo Nakamura, Tomoyuki Higuchi, Takashi Tsuchiya, Shinobu Machida, and Tohru Araki: Application of Multivariate Maxwellian Mixture Model to Plasma Velocity Distribution Function. Hiroshi Tsukimoto, Mitsuru Kakimoto, Chie Morita, Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Eiko Hatakeyama, and Yoshifumi Miyazaki: Knowledge Discovery from fMRI Brain Images by Logical Regression Analysis. Kazuhisa Miwa: Human Discovery Processes Based on Searching Experiments in Virtual Psychological Research Environment. 12:15 Closing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poster Papers Vladimir V.Krepets and Natalya V. Belkina: Prediction of Binding Affinities for Protein-ligand Complexes with Neural Network Models. Tomoyuki Higuchi: Automatic and Accurate Determination of the Onset Time of the Quasi-periodic Oscillation. Judith Devaney: The Role of Choice in Discovery. Takehiko Tanaka: Search for New Methods for Assignment of Complex Molecular Spectra. Yoshiya Kasahara, Ryotaro Niitsu, Yousuke Akimoto, and Toru Sato: Computational Analysis for Discovery on the Plasma Waves Observed by Scientific Satellites. Yoshitaka Goto, Yoshiya Kasahara, and Toru Sato: Direction Finding of the Waves in Plasma Using Energy Function. Premysl Zak and Jaroslava Halova: Coping the Challenge of Mutagenes Discovery with GUHA+/- for Windows. Yukinobu Hamuro, Naoki Katoh, and Katsutoshi Yada: Discovering Interpretable Rules that Explain Customers' Brand Choice Behavior. Jan Rauch and Milan Simunek: Mining for 4ft Association Rules. Ayahiko Niimi and Eiichiro Tazaki: Rule Discovery Technique using Genetic Programming Combined with Apriori Algorithm. Nobuhiro Yugami: Discovery of M-of-N Concepts for Classification. Einoshin Suzuki: Issues in Organizing a Successful Knowledge Discovery Contest. Kohei Maruyama and Kuniaki Uehara: Knowledge Integration of Rule Mining and Schema Discovering. Mitsuomi Shimada and Kuniaki Uehara: Discovery of Correlation from Multi-stream of Human Motion. Yoshimitsu Kudoh and Makoto Haraguchi: An Appropriate Abstraction for Constructing a Compact Decision Tree. Daisuke Ikeda and Sachio Hirokawa: Extraction Positive and Negative Keywords for Web Communities. Hiroshi H. Hasegawa, Takashi Washio, Yukari Ishimiya, and Takeshi Saito: Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics from Time Series Data Analysis. Motoyuki Suzuki and Shozo Makino: Automatic Determination Algorithm for the Optimum Number of States in NL-HMnet. Toshihiro Hamada, Akinobu Shimizu, Toyofumi Saito, Junichi Hasegawa, and Junichiro Toriwaki: Comparative Study of Automatic Acquisition Methods of Image Processing Procedures. Tsukasa Matsuura and Yasumasa Kanada: Extraction of Authors' Characteristics from Japanese Modern Sentences via N-gram Distribution. Naohiro Matsumura and Yukio Ohsawa: Combination Retrieval for Creating Knowledge from Sparse Document Collection. Kazumi Saito and Ryohei Nakano: Discovery of Nominally Conditioned Polynomials using Neural Networks, Vector Quantizers and Decision Trees. =============================================================================== DS2000 will be sponsored by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Area "Discovery Science", in cooperation with Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence and with SIG of Data Mining, Japan Society for Software Science and Technology. The proceedings will be published as a volume in the Lecture Notes Series in Artificial Intelligence, Springer-Verlag. For REGISTRATION and HOTEL ACCOMMODATION, please visit our web page at: http://www.i.kyushu-u.ac.jp/ds2000/ ===============================================================================