Discovery Science

This volume collects the papers accepted for the fifteenth International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2012, which was held in Lyon, France, in October 2012. Of 46 submissions, 22 were selected for publication after peer review.

The discipline asks how new scientific hypotheses can be produced and checked using data. The conference addresses methods for finding scientific knowledge automatically, along with machine learning, intelligent data analysis, the theory of learning, and software that helps researchers during discovery. It also covers how these methods are applied in practice.