Report of DS 2004 Einoshin Suzuki Yokohama National University, Japan October 2, 2004 Discovery Science Padova, Italy

Basic Statistics of DS track 4 tutorials 5 invited talks 7th in its series 80? participants from 14? countries 400 euro early registration fee (with ALT, lunch included) 3245 Springer LNAI

Number of Submissions and Acceptances thconf. submissio n longregular/short 7DS (20) 6DS DS (29) 4DS ?3011 3DS DS

Number of Submissions and Acceptances 1999 Tokyo 2000 Kyoto 2001 D.C Luebeck 2003 Sapporo 2004 Padova reject regular/short/poster long

Program Committee Luc De Raedt Germany Ramamohanarao Kotagiri Australia Tobias Scheffer Germany Achim Hoffmann Australia Andreas Dress Germany Wray Buntine Finland Gunter Grieser Germany Tapio Elomaa Finland Johannes Fuernkranz Germany Hannu Toivonen Finland Michael May Germany Domenico Sacca' Italy Fabrice Guillet France Elisa Bertino Italy Mohand-Said Hacid France Manoranjan Dash Singapore Djamel A. Zighed France Rudy Setiono Singapore Vincent Corruble France Ljupco Todorovski Slovenia Akihiro Yamamoto Japan Saso Dzeroski Slovenia Masayuki Takeda Japan Eamonn Keogh USA Hiroshi Motoda Japan Aleksandar Lazarevic USA Einoshin Suzuki Japan Jan Rauch Czech Republic Kai Ming Ting Australia has a PC chair experience (with my limited knowledge) selected by quality of reviews, history, and recommendations

Review Process June 1: (received 80 submissions) June 2 – June 6: Bidding phase June 7 – June 27: Review phase (8 or 9 papers/PC member, 2 or 3 reviews/paper) June 28 – July 2: Discussion phase June 6: (notified 20 long acceptance, 20 poster acceptance, 40 rejection) cf. Microsoft CMT, Independence day very tight for the PC chair

Review Policy a long paper: must have high evaluation in "Important comments to the authors" and “Comments for the PC" categories in average a regular paper: must have high evaluation at best In case of conflict between the reviews/discussions and the personal opinion of the PC chair, the reviews/discussions were respected.

Review Result "your recommendation" category : 20 long papers + 4 regular papers (at least 50 % downgrade, informative) "your recommendation" category : 16 regular papers + 3 rejected (no positive comments) "your recommendation" category : 37 rejected (no positive evaluation)

Data Sorted by Countries (1) Japan63413 France2305 Italy2204 Australia2024 Germany2002 China13812 Spain1124 Poland1113 USA1023 Canada1001 Finland1001 Korea Russia0112 Catalonia0101 Scotland0101 UK0101 India0022 Romania0022 Algeria0011 Belgium0011 Czech Republic 0011 England0011 Slovenia0011 Taiwan, R.O.C long regular reject total

Data Sorted by Countries (2) German y Canada Finland Italy Australia Japan France Poland0.33 USA Spain China Cataloni a Scotland UK Russia Korea India Romani a Algeria Belgium Czech Rep England Slovenia Taiwan long regular reject

Data Sorted by Subjects (1) data mining machine learning2147 knowledge discovery and human interaction2024 knowledge discovery from texts and the Web14510 application of knowledge discovery to natural and social sciences1045 data and knowledge visualization1012 human factors in knowledge discovery1012 logic for/of knowledge discovery1012 Bayesian networks1001 scientific discovery0235 intelligent network agents0123 knowledge discovery by inferences0101 philosophy and psychology of discovery0101 statistical methods and neural networks for knowledge discovery0055 heuristic search0022 long regular reject total

Data Sorted by Subjects (2) Bayesian networks knowledge discovery and human interaction data and knowledge visualization human factors in knowledge discovery logic for/of knowledge discovery data mining machine learning application of knowledge discovery to natural and social sciences knowledge discovery from texts and the Web knowledge discovery by inferences philosophy and psychology of discovery scientific discovery intelligent network agents statistical methods and neural networks for knowledge discovery heuristic search long regular reject