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                Discovery Science</a><span style="color:black"> (DS2019)
                will be held on October 28-30, 2019, in the town of
                Split, on the beautiful Adriatic coast.</span></span></font>
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                style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
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                International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2019)
                provides an open forum for intensive discussions and
                exchange of new ideas among researchers working in the
                area of Discovery Science.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
                </span>The scope of the conference includes the
                development and analysis of methods for discovering
                scientific knowledge, coming from machine learning, data
                mining, intelligent data analysis, big data analysis as
                well as their application in various scientific domains.</span></font></p>
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                submissions of research papers addressing all aspects of
                discovery science: papers that focus on the analysis of
                different types of massive and complex data, including
                structured, spatio-temporal and network data. We would
                also like to encourage contributions from the areas of
                computational scientific discovery, mining scientific
                data, computational creativity and discovery
                informatics. We particularly welcome papers addressing
                applications from different domains of science including
                biomedicine and life sciences, astronomy, physics,
                chemistry, as well as social sciences. Applications to
                massive, heterogeneous, continuous or imprecise data
                sets are of particular interests. Possible topics
                include, but are not limited to:</span></font></p>
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                  discovery, machine learning and statistical methods</span></font></li>
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                  Knowledge Discovery</span></font></li>
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                  style="font-size: 10pt;">Data Streams, Evolving Data
                  and Models</span></font></li>
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                  style="font-size: 10pt;">Change Detection and Model
                  Maintenance</span></font></li>
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                  style="font-size: 10pt;"> Active Knowledge Discovery</span></font></li>
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                  style="font-size: 10pt;">Learning from Text and web
                  mining</span></font></li>
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                  style="font-size: 10pt;">Information extraction from
                  scientific literature</span></font></li>
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                  style="font-size: 10pt;">Knowledge discovery from
                  heterogeneous, unstructured and multimedia data</span></font></li>
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                  style="font-size: 10pt;">Knowledge discovery in
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                  knowledge visualization</span></font></li>
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                  style="font-size: 10pt;">Mining graphs and structured
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                  Transfer</span></font></li>
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                  Creativity</span></font></li>
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                  interaction for knowledge discovery and management</span></font></li>
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                  style="font-size: 10pt;">Evaluation of models and
                  predictions in discovery setting</span></font></li>
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                  of machine learning and deep learning models</span></font></li>
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                  style="font-size: 10pt;">AI frameworks for discovery
                  in scientific domains</span></font></li>
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                  style="font-size: 10pt;">Biomedical knowledge
                  discovery, analysis of (multi)omics, micro-array,gene
                  deletion, gene set enrichment data</span></font></li>
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                  High-Performance Computing, Grid and <br>
                  Cloud Computing</span></font></li>
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                  techniques to other natural or<br>
                  social sciences</span></font></li>
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          <pre><font size="-1" face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">    </span>Paper submission: 14.6.2019<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
    </span>Author notification: 22.7.2019      <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
    </span>PhD session abstract submission: 2.8.2019
    PhD abstract notification: 9.8.2019
    <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>Camera ready: 16.8.2019 <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
    </span>Author registration: 20.8.2019

<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">    </span>Conference: 28. - 30.10.2019</font>
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                style="font-size: 10pt;">Authors are invited to submit
                their papers through the conference online submission
                site:</span></font></p>
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              style="font-size: 10pt;">Detailed submission instructions
              and organization related to the conference are also
              available here: </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"
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          <font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;
              background: white none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Traditionally,
              the proceedings of Discovery Science series appear in the </span><span
              style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="HR"><a
                href="http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-0-0-0"
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                  Series by Springer-Verlag</span></a><strong><span
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              addition, a special issue on Discovery Science is planned
              in </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="HR"><a
                href="http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/journal/10994"
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                style="font-size: 10pt;">For further information, the
                contact information is at:  </span><u><span
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          <font face="Courier New"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">We
              look forward to meeting you in Split! </span> </font>
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          <pre><font size="-1" face="Courier New">General Chair: </font><font size="-1" face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
  </span>Sašo Džeroski, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
      
Program Chairs:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"></span>  Petra Kralj Novak, Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia 
 </span> Tomislav Šmuc, Institut Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb, Croatia      <span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
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          <pre><font size="-1" face="Courier New">PhD Symposium Chair:</font><font size="-1" face="Courier New"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes">
  </span>Tomislav Lipić, Institut Ruđer Bošković, Zagreb, Croatia
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