Discovery Science

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2015, held in banff, AB, Canada in October 2015. The 16 long and 12 short papers presendted together with 4 invited talks in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions.The combination of recentadvances in the development and analysis of methods for discovering scienti cknowledge, coming from machine learning, data mining, and intelligent dataanalysis, as well as their application in various scienti c domains, on the onehand, with the algorithmic advances in machine learning theory, on the otherhand, makes every instance of this joint event unique and attractive.