Connectionists: Call for Papers: Special Issue on Discovery Science 2024 Machine Learning Journal

[Riccardo Guidotti]

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Discovery Science 2024

https://link.springer.com/journal/10994/updates/27716666

Special Issue

The Machine Learning journal invites submissions of research papers addressing all aspects of discovery science – a research discipline concerned with the development and analysis of methods for discovering scientific knowledge, coming from machine learning, data mining, intelligent data analysis, artificial intelligence and big data analytics, as well as their application in various domains.


Submissions addressing all aspects of discovery science are welcome. Research papers that focus on the analysis of different types of massive and complex data, including structured, spatio-temporal and network data, as well as heterogeneous, continuous or imprecise data are encouraged. Research papers in the fields of computational scientific discovery, mining scientific data, computational creativity and discovery informatics are also welcome. Submissions addressing applications of artificial intelligence in different domains of science, including biomedicine and life sciences, materials science, astronomy, physics, chemistry, as well as social sciences are encouraged. Finally, submissions addressing ethical and trustworthiness aspects of artificial intelligence such as explainability, interpretability, fairness, bias, privacy, robustness and accountability are also encouraged.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:


●    Artificial Intelligence (machine learning, knowledge representation and reasoning, natural language processing, statistical methods, etc.) applied to science
●    Machine Learning: supervised learning (including ranking, multi-target prediction and structured prediction), unsupervised learning, semi-supervised learning, active learning, reinforcement learning, online learning, transfer learning, etc.
●    Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
●    Anomaly and Outlier Detection
●    Time-Series Analysis
●    Spatial, Temporal and Spatiotemporal Data Analysis
●    Unstructured Data Analysis (textual and web data)
●    Data and Knowledge Visualization
●    Complex Network Analysis
●    Causal Modelling
●    Explainable AI and Interpretable Machine Learning
●    Trustworthy and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
●    Human-Machine Interaction for Knowledge Discovery and Management
●    Data Streams, Evolving Data, Change Detection & Concept drift
●    AutoML, Meta-Learning, Planning to Learn
●    AI and High-performance Computing, Grid and Cloud Computing
●    AI and Cybersecurity
●    Computational Creativity
●    Learning from Complex Data
●    Process Discovery and Analysis
●    Evaluation of Models and Predictions in Discovery Setting


Applications of the above techniques in scientific domains, such as Physical sciences (e.g., materials sciences, particle physics), Life sciences (e.g., systems biology/systems medicine), Environmental sciences, Natural and social sciences
Papers which, at the time of submission, have appeared in the proceedings of Discovery Science 2024 or other relevant conferences will be considered provided that the submission constitutes a significant contribution beyond the conference paper containing at least 30% of new material (e.g., extensions of the method, additional technical results, etc.) as compared to the conference version of the paper.

The guest editors (accounting for reviewers’ comments) will make the decision on whether the difference is significant enough to warrant publication. The journal version should include a short paragraph explaining how it extends the previously published conference paper.
Schedule
- Paper submission deadline: March 3, 2025
- First notification of acceptance: May 26, 2025
- Deadline for revised submissions: July 14, 2025
- Final notification of acceptance: September 15, 2025
- Expected publication date (online): November/December 2025


Submission procedure
To submit to this issue, authors have to make a journal submission to the Springer Machine Learning journal and select the type of submission to be for the “S.I.: Discovery Science 2024” special issue. It is highly recommended that submitted papers do not exceed 20 pages including references. Every paper may be accompanied with unlimited appendices.
The papers should be formatted using Springer Nature’s LaTeX template. The journal requires authors to include an information sheet as a supplementary material that contains a short summary of their contribution and specifically address the following questions:
What is the main claim of the paper? Why is this an important contribution to the machine learning literature? [“We are the first to have done X” is not an acceptable answer without stating the importance of X.]
What is the evidence you provide to support your claim? Be precise. [“The evidence is provided by experiments and/or theoretical analysis” is not an acceptable answer without a summary of the main results and their implications.]
What papers by other authors make the most closely related contributions, and how is your paper related to them?
Have you published parts of your paper before, for instance in a conference? If so, give details of your previous paper(s) and a precise statement detailing how your paper provides a significant contribution beyond the previous paper(s).

Guest editors
Riccardo Guidotti, University of Pisa, Italy
Anna Monreale, University of Pisa, Italy
Dino Pedreschi, University of Pisa, Italy
For Queries relating to Journal Track Submissions email the journal track chairs at riccardo.guidotti at unipi.it<mailto:riccardo.guidotti at unipi.it>, anna.monreale at unipi.it<mailto:anna.monreale at unipi.it>, dino.pedereschi at unipi.it<mailto:dino.pedereschi at unipi.it>



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Riccardo Guidotti
Dipartimento di Informatica
Università di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo, 3, 56127 Pisa
Mail: riccardo.guidotti at unipi.it
Web: https://kdd.isti.cnr.it/people/guidotti-riccardo
KDD Lab, Room: 363
Phone:+39 050 221 3134





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