1. Discovery Science 2006 Report of the Program Chairs Klaus P. Jantke, General Chair Nada Lavrač and Ljupčo Todorovski, Program Chairs Ricard Gavalda, Local Chair

2. 2 Basic Facts Ninth conference in DS series Single track conference  2 tutorials: joint with ALT organized by DS  5 invited talks: joint with ALT  24 oral presentations of long papers  18 poster presentations of short papers (1 poster presentation canceled) Participants (both ALT+DS): cca. 100

3. 3 Submissions and Acceptances ConferenceSubmissionsLongRegularProject DS-2006872418 DS-20051122179 DS-2004802019(20) DS-2003801829 DS-2002761727(29) DS-200144(?)3011 DS-2000481522 DS-1999742625

4. 4 Submissions and Acceptances

5. 5 Submissions and Size of PC

6. 6 Student Mentoring Program Pre-submission feedback to student authors  introduced last year Submissions to mentoring program  8 papers  no acceptance/rejection decision  comments for improvement only Mentoring submissions that made it  2 regular (short) papers  1 long paper – award nominee (!)  2 paper not re-submitted (out of focus)

7. 7 Review Process Submission deadlines  student mentoring: April 27  regular submissions: May 26 Notifications sent out: June 30  most of the reviews received on time  3 members non-responsive  some of them missing (2 reviews/paper min.)  some of them late – harm the discussion Camera-ready copies: July 15  received on time  could be also July 30

8. 8 Review Process: EasyChair Conference management SW  EasyChair: free and excellent  esp. for proceedings preparation Special thanks to the author  Andrei Voronkov  for providing EasyChair for free  and providing excellent support Highly recommended to next years PC Chairs

9. 9 Carl Smith Award given to the best student paper the nomination process  based on the reviewer’s reports  selection done among student papers only the selection process  4 nominees reviewed by 4 members of the “award committee”  PC Chairs and members of Steering Committee  the awarded paper selected by consensus

10. 10 Submissions by Country CountrySubm.LongRegularReject Japan11623 China1028 France9234 South Korea8116 Portugal6411 Spain514 USA4211 Finland431 Poland312 Romania312 Turkey33 Tunisia211 Canada22 Italy22 CountrySubm.LongRegularReject UK22 Vietnam11 Switzerland11 New Zealand11 Taiwan11 Sweden11 Pakistan11 Netherlands11 Mexico11 Israel11 Brazil11 Austria11 Hungary11 New Caledonia11

11. 11 Submissions by Country CountrySubm.LongRegularReject Japan11623 China1028 France9234 South Korea8116 Portugal6411 Spain514 USA4211 Finland431 Poland312 Romania312 Turkey33 Tunisia211 Canada22 Italy22 CountrySubm.LongRegularReject UK22 Vietnam11 Switzerland11 New Zealand11 Taiwan11 Sweden11 Pakistan11 Netherlands11 Mexico11 Israel11 Brazil11 Austria11 Hungary11 New Caledonia11

12. 12 Submissions by Topic TopicSubmissionsLongRegularReject Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining308814 Text and Web Mining14716 Bioinformatics9135 Data and Knowledge Visualization7214 Literature Discovery44 Computational Scientific Discovery422 Unstructured and Multimedia Data321 Incremental and Data Streams321 Active Knowledge Discovery22 Network and Link Data22 Unsupervised Learning211 Spatial Data11 Other66 SUM87241845

13. 13 Submissions by Topic TopicSubmissionsLongRegularReject Knowledge Discovery, Data Mining308814 Text and Web Mining14716 Bioinformatics9135 Data and Knowledge Visualization7214 Literature Discovery44 Computational Scientific Discovery422 Unstructured and Multimedia Data321 Incremental and Data Streams321 Active Knowledge Discovery22 Network and Link Data22 Unsupervised Learning211 Spatial Data11 Other66 SUM87241845

14. 14 Invited Talks Putting Semantics into e-Science and the Grid  Carole Goble  University of Manchester, UK Data-Driven Discovery using Probabilistic Hidden Variable Models  Padhraic Smyth  University of California, Irvine, USA

15. 15 Tutorials Geographic and Spatial Data Mining  Michael May  Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Germany Using R for Data Mining and Scientific Discovery  Luis Torgo  University of Porto, Portugal

16. 16 DS Development International, refereed conference  acceptance rate comparable to other major conferences  now many papers from outside Asian regions Thematic focus on scientific discovery  this year‘s invited talks both focus on scientific discovery  however, submissions come from different areas – most of them still on general ML/DM methodology

17. 17 Thanks To Authors and Participants Invited speakers Tutorial speakers Ricard Gavalda and Local Organization Team Hiroshi Motoda Thomas Zeugmann Steering Committee Program Committee Andrei Voronkov (EasyChair author)