Discovery Science : Third International Conference DS 2000 Kyoto Japan December 4–6 2000 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Discovery Science DS 2000 held in Kyoto Japan in December 2000. The 15 revised full papers presented together with three invited contributions and 22 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. Among the topics and areas addressed in their relation to discovery science are inference algorithmic learning heuristic search database management data mining networking inductive logic programming information agents information retrieval visualization etc