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 recent advances in the development and analysis of methods for
discovering scienti c knowledge coming from machine learning data mining and intelligent
data analysis as well as their application in various scienti c domains on the one hand with
the algorithmic advances in machine learning theory on the other hand makes every instance of
this joint event unique and attractive.
