Discovery Science 2000

The Third International Conference on Discovery Science
Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan
December 4-6, 2000

13:00-13:10 Opening

13:10-14:10 Invited Talk I (Chair: Shinichi Morishita)

14:30-16:00 Discovery in WWW (Chair: Etsuya Shibayama)

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 (Chair: Koichi Niijima)

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.
Hiroshi Tsukimoto, Mitsuru Kakimoto, Chie Morita, Yoshiaki Kikuchi, Eiko Hatakeyama, and Yoshifumi Miyazaki:
Knowledge Discovery from fMRI Brain Images by Logical Regression Analysis.

18:00-19:30 Reception at Atrium, Kyoto Research Park

10:15-10:45 Text Mining (Chair: Ayumi Shinohara)
NOTE: The starting time of this session has been changed due to cancellation of a talk.

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.
(The talk by Zied Elouedi and Khaled Mellouli was canceled.)

11:00-12:00 Invited Talk II (Chair: Masahiko Sato)

Joseph Y. Halpern (Cornell University)
Degrees of Brief, Random Worlds, and Maximum Entropy

12:00-13:30 Luncheon at Atrium, Kyoto Research Park

13:30-14:30 Foundations of Machine Discovery I (Chair: Naoki Katoh)

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 (Chair: Hiroki Arimura)

Masami Hagiya (University of Tokyo) and Koichi Takahashi
Discovery and Deduction

19:00-21:00 Banquet at Atrium, Kyoto Research Park

9:30-10:30 Foundations of Machine Discovery II (Chair: Akira Maruoka)

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 (Chair: Hiroshi Motoda)

Genta Ueno, Nagatomo Nakamura, Tomoyuki Higuchi, Takashi Tsuchiya, Shinobu Machida, and Tohru Araki:
Application of Multivariate Maxwellian Mixture Model to Plasma Velocity Distribution Function.
Takashi Matsuda, Tadashi Horiuchi, Hiroshi Motoda, and Takashi Washio:
Graph-Based Induction for General Graph Structured Data and its Application to Chemical Compound Data.
Kazuhisa Miwa:
Human Discovery Processes Based on Searching Experiments in Virtual Psychological Research Environment.

12:15 Closing