This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Discovery Science, DS 2014, held in Bled, Slovenia, in October 2014. The 30 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 62 submissions. The papers cover topics such as: computational scientific discovery; data mining and knowledge discovery; machine learning and statistical methods; computational creativity; mining scientific data; data and knowledge visualization; knowledge discovery from scientific literature; mining text, unstructured and multimedia data; mining structured and relational data; mining temporal and spatial data; mining data streams; network analysis; discovery informatics; discovery and experimental workflows; knowledge capture and scientific ontologies; data and knowledge integration; logic and philosophy of scientific discovery; and applications of computational methods in various scientific domains.
