<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><b class="">*** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ***</b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">21st International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2018)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus, 30-31 October, 2018</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 21px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 18px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><a href="http://www.cyprusconferences.org/ds2018" class="">http://www.cyprusconferences.org/ds2018</a></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">(*** In conjunction with ISMIS 2018 ***)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class="">WELCOME</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">The 21st International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2018) provides</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">an open forum for intensive discussions and exchange of new ideas among</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">researchers working in the area of Discovery Science. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">The scope of the conference includes the development and analysis of</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">methods for discovering scientific knowledge, coming from machine</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">learning, data mining, intelligent data analysis, big data analysis as well as</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">their application in various scientific domains. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">We welcome papers that focus on the analysis of different types of massive</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">and complex data, including structured, spatio-temporal and network data.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">We particularly welcome papers addressing applications. Finally, we would</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">like to encourage contributions from the areas of computational</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">scientific discovery, mining scientific data, computational creativity and</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">discovery informatics. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">DS 2018 will be co-located with ISMIS 2018, the 24th International</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. The two conferences</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">will be held in parallel, and will share their invited talks. </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class="">TOPICS</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">We invite submissions of research papers addressing all aspects of</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">discovery science. We particularly welcome contributions that discuss the</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">application of data analysis, data mining and other support techniques for</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">scientific discovery including, but not limited to, biomedical, astronomical</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">and other physics domains. Applications to massive, heterogeneous,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">continuous or imprecise data sets are of particular interests. Possible topics</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">include, but are not limited to: </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Knowledge discovery, machine learning and statistical methods </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Ubiquitous knowledge discovery </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Data streams, evolving data and models </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Change detection and model maintenance </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Active knowledge discovery </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Learning from text and web mining </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Information extraction from scientific literature </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Knowledge discovery from heterogeneous, unstructured and</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> multimedia data </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Knowledge discovery in network and link data </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Knowledge discovery in social networks </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Data and knowledge visualization </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Spatial/temporal Data </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Mining graphs and structured data </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Planning to learn </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Knowledge transfer </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Computational creativity </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Human-machine interaction for knowledge discovery and management </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Biomedical knowledge discovery and analysis </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Machine learning for high-performance computing, grid and</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"> cloud computing </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Applications of the above techniques to natural or social sciences </div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class="">PAPER SUBMISSION</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Papers may contain up to fifteen (15) pages and must be formatted</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">according to the layout supplied by Springer-Verlag for the Lecture Notes</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">in Computer Science series. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">be under consideration for another workshop, conference or a journal,</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the DS</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">2018 review process</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Authors can submit their papers electronically via our submission page</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">through Easychair: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ds20180" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ds20180</a> .</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class=""></b></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class="">PUBLICATION AND JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">The DS 2018 proceedings will be published by Springer in LNAI</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">(Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence) and will be available at the</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">conference.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Authors of best papers will be invited to submit their extended versions to</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">the Machine Learning journal (<a href="https://link.springer.com/journal/10994" class="">https://link.springer.com/journal/10994</a>)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">published by Springer. Fast Track Processing will be used to have them</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">reviewed and published.</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class="">IMPORTANT DATES</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Paper Submissions due: 28th June 2018</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 18th July 2018</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Camera-Ready Versions of Accepted Papers: 28th July 2018</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Author Registration: 31st Juy 2018</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Early Non-Author Registration: 10th September 2018</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Late Non-Author Registration: after 10th September 2018</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;"><b class="">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;">General Chair</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• George Angelos Papadopoulos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 18px;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline;">Program Committee Co-Chairs</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Larisa Soldatova, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">• Joaquin Vanschoren, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands</div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><br class=""></div></body></html>