Report of DS 2004Report of DS 2004

Einoshin Suzuki 　　　　　

Yokohama National University, Japan

October 2, 2004Discovery Science 2004 @ Padova, Italy

Basic Statistics of DS 2004Basic Statistics of DS 2004

• 1 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 Number of Submissions and AcceptancesAcceptances

th conf.submissi

onlon

gregular/

short

7DS-

200480 20 19(20)

6DS-

200380 18 29

5DS-

200276 17 27(29)

4DS-

200144? 30 11

3DS-

200048 15 22

2DS-

199974 26 25

Number of Submissions and Number of Submissions and AcceptancesAcceptances

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

1 2 3 4 5 61999Tokyo

2000Kyoto

2001D.C.

2002Luebeck

2003Sapporo

2004Padova

reject

regular/short/poster

long

Program CommitteeProgram 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 Australiahas a PC chair experience(with my limited knowledge)

selected by quality of reviews, history, and recommendations

Review ProcessReview 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 PolicyReview 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 personalopinion of the PC chair, the reviews/discussions were respected.

Review ResultReview Result

• "your recommendation" category 3.5 - 5.0:

20 long papers + 4 regular papers (at least

50 % downgrade, informative)

• "your recommendation" category 2.3 - 3.3:

16 regular papers + 3 rejected (no positive

comments)

• "your recommendation" category 1.0 - 2.0:

37 rejected (no positive evaluation)

Data Sorted by Countries (1)Data Sorted by Countries (1)

Japan 6 3 4 13

France 2 3 0 5

Italy 2 2 0 4

Australia 2 0 2 4

Germany 2 0 0 2

China 1 3 8 12

Spain 1 1 2 4

Poland 1 1 1 3

USA 1 0 2 3

Canada 1 0 0 1

Finland 1 0 0 1

Korea 0 3 10 13

Russia 0 1 1 2

Catalonia 0 1 0 1

Scotland 0 1 0 1

UK 0 1 0 1

India 0 0 2 2

Romania 0 0 2 2

Algeria 0 0 1 1

Belgium 0 0 1 1

Czech Republic

0 0 1 1

England 0 0 1 1

Slovenia 0 0 1 1

Taiwan, R.O.C.

0 0 1 1

long regular reject total long regular reject total

Data Sorted by Countries (2)Data Sorted by Countries (2)

Germany

1.00 0.00 0.00

Canada 1.00 0.00 0.00

Finland 1.00 0.00 0.00

Italy 0.50 0.50 0.00

Australia

0.50 0.00 0.50

Japan 0.46 0.23 0.31

France 0.40 0.60 0.00

Poland 0.33 0.33 0.33

USA 0.33 0.00 0.67

Spain 0.25 0.25 0.50

China 0.08 0.25 0.67

Catalonia

0.00 1.00 0.00

Scotland

0.00 1.00 0.00

UK 0.00 1.00 0.00

Russia 0.00 0.50 0.50

Korea 0.00 0.23 0.77

India 0.00 0.00 1.00

Romania

0.00 0.00 1.00

Algeria 0.00 0.00 1.00

Belgium

0.00 0.00 1.00

Czech Rep.

0.00 0.00 1.00

England

0.00 0.00 1.00

Slovenia

0.00 0.00 1.00

Taiwan 0.00 0.00 1.00

long regular reject long regular reject

Data Sorted by Subjects (1)Data Sorted by Subjects (1)

data mining10

9 8 27

machine learning 2 1 4 7

knowledge discovery and human interaction 2 0 2 4

knowledge discovery from texts and the Web 1 4 5 10

application of knowledge discovery to natural and social sciences

1 0 4 5

data and knowledge visualization 1 0 1 2

human factors in knowledge discovery 1 0 1 2

logic for/of knowledge discovery 1 0 1 2

Bayesian networks 1 0 0 1

scientific discovery 0 2 3 5

intelligent network agents 0 1 2 3

knowledge discovery by inferences 0 1 0 1

philosophy and psychology of discovery 0 1 0 1

statistical methods and neural networks for knowledge discovery

0 0 5 5

heuristic search 0 0 2 2

long regular reject total

Data Sorted by Subjects (2)Data Sorted by Subjects (2)

Bayesian networks1.0

0 0.00 0.00

knowledge discovery and human interaction0.5

0 0.00 0.50

data and knowledge visualization0.5

0 0.00 0.50

human factors in knowledge discovery0.5

0 0.00 0.50

logic for/of knowledge discovery0.5

0 0.00 0.50

data mining0.3

7 0.33 0.30

machine learning0.2

9 0.14 0.57

application of knowledge discovery to natural and social sciences

0.20

0.00 0.80

knowledge discovery from texts and the Web0.1

0 0.40 0.50

knowledge discovery by inferences0.0

0 1.00 0.00

philosophy and psychology of discovery0.0

0 1.00 0.00

scientific discovery0.0

0 0.40 0.60

intelligent network agents0.0

0 0.33 0.67

statistical methods and neural networks for knowledge discovery

0.00

0.00 1.00

heuristic search0.0

0 0.00 1.00

long regular reject