Guest editors’ introduction to the special issue on Discovery Science

Funding

As editors of this special issue, we thank all the authors who submitted papers, the Program Committee members of the Discovery Science 2018 conference, and all of the reviewers of the submitted papers, for their excellent work. We are grateful for help in putting this special issue together received from Melissa Fearon and Subhashini Gopal from Springer, as well as the Machine Learning journal editors, i.e. the special issue editor, Dragos Margineantu, and the editors-in-chief, Prof. Peter Flach and Prof. Hendrik Blockeel.