DISD 2014 - The AAAI 2014 Workshop on Discovery Informatics: Scientific Discoveries Enabled by AI

Discovery informatics encompasses research on intelligent systems in support of scientific discoveries. At the core of discovery informatics research is modeling and capturing some aspect of the scientific processes that can lead to new discoveries. The focus of this workshop will be on new discoveries resulting from intelligent systems that use AI techniques, highlighting the importance of the discovery, the challenges that led to requiring an AI approach, and understanding the generality of the approach taken for other science problems and domains.
Topics
Topics include but are not limited to machine reading from scientific articles, information integration and model synthesis, scientific knowledge modeling and inference, planning data analysis and experiment tasks, and learning from scientific data.
Format
The workshop will be planned as a one-day event. It will include presentations selected from the submissions that highlight discovery, a poster session from other submissions relevant to the topics of the workshop, and an invited presentation from a domain scientist (for example, a biologist, an earth scientist, or a physicist.)
Attendance
The workshop will be limited to 30?50 participants. We will encourage participation of students interested in this research area.
Submissions
Submissions can be in three categories: (1) Abstracts that describe articles already published in the literature that describe discoveries made with AI systems; (2) articles describing ongoing work that has the potential of leading to new discoveries; or (3) position papers with unique perspectives on discovery informatics
Abstracts should be 1 page, articles should be at most 8 pages, and position papers should be at most 4 pages. Submissions should be prepared using the AAAI publication format.
Submit to EasyChair. For any questions, please contact the organizers at diw2014-AT-easychair.org.
Workshop Chairs
Yolanda Gil (Cochair)
Information Sciences Institute and Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California
4676 Admiralty Way, Suite 1001
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Web Page Email: gil-AT-isi.edu
Phone: (310) 448-8794
Fax: (310) 823-6714
Lawrence Hunter (Cochair)
Department of Pharmacology (Denver)
Department of Computer Science (Boulder)
University of Colorado
US Mail: PO Box 6511, MS 8303
Aurora, CO 80045-0511 USA
Express Delivery: 12801 E. 17th Ave, RC-1 South Rm L18-6101, Aurora, CO 80045
Web Page
Email: Larry.Hunter-AT-ucdenver.edu
Phone: +1 303 724 3574
Fax: +1 303 724 3648