Knowledge discovery in real-world databases requires a broad scope of techniques and forms of knowledge. Both the knowledge and the applied methods should fit the discovery tasks and should adapt to knowledge hidden in the data. The Discovery Challenge tries to encourage a collaborative research effort, a broad and unified view of knowledge and methods of discovery, and emphasis on business problems and solutions to those problems.

The idea of Discovery Challenge came from Jan Żytkow, who suggested to organize such an event during PKDD'99 in Prague. The Discovery Challenge constitutes a collection of data and problems as a common ground for better comparisons and discussions of the applicability of KDD methods on a real world problems with respect to both KDD and application viewpoints.

Proceedings of the Discovery Challenge (PDF):

• Front page
• Preface
• Discovery Challenge organisation
• Table of contents
• Author Index

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