------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Discovery Science 2000 The Third International Conference on Discovery Science Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan December 4-6, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program December 4th ============ 13:00-13:10 Opening Setsuo Arikawa 13:10-14:10 Invited Talk I (Chair: Shinichi Morishita) Jeffrey D. Ullman A Survey of Association-Rule Mining 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 Kyoto Research Park December 5th ============ 10:15-10:45 Text Mining (Chair: Ayumi Shinohara) 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 Degrees of Brief, Random Worlds, and Maximum Entropy 12:00-13:30 Luncheon 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 and Koichi Takahashi Discovery and Deduction 16:00-18:00 Poster and Demo Sessions 19:00-21:00 Banquet at Kyoto Research Park December 6th ============ 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 Shinichi Morishita ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------