The Twelfth International Conference on Discovery Science (DS09) will be held in Porto, Portugal, on 3-5 October 2009. DS09 will be collocated with ALT09, the Twentieth International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory. The two conferences will be held in parallel, and will share their invited talks. The proceedings of DS09 will appear in the Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Series by Springer-Verlag.

DS09 provides an open forum for intensive discussions and exchange of new ideas among researchers working in the area of Discovery Science. The scope of the conference includes the development and analysis of methods for automatic scientific knowledge discovery, machine learning, intelligent data analysis, theory of learning, as well as their application to knowledge discovery. Very welcome are papers that focus on dynamic and evolving data, models and structures.

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The Conference Chairs