Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Two post-doctoral researcher positions in my team (topic: data mining / machine learning)

There are two post-doc positions that are now OPEN in my research team in Shenzhen, China. === Topic === data mining or ML algorithms for processing graphs, sequences, streams or other complex data, pattern mining === Benefits ===== === Requirements … Continue reading

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Brief report about the ECML PKDD 2021 conference

In this blog post, I will talk briefly about the ECML PKDD 2021 conference that I have attended virtually this week, from the 13th to the 17th of September 2021.. What is ECML PKDD? ECML PKDD is an european conference … Continue reading

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An Introduction to High Utility Quantitative Itemset Mining

Today, I will talk about pattern mining, a subfield of data science that aims at finding interesting patterns in data. More precisely, I will briefly describe a popular data mining task named high utility itemset mining. Then, I will describe … Continue reading

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High Utility Itemset Mining with a Taxonomy

Today, I will talk about discovering interesting patterns in data, what is called pattern mining, and in particular about how the concept of taxonomy can be useful to find interesting patterns. There has been a lot of research on pattern … Continue reading

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Common Mistakes to Avoid when Submitting a Research Paper

In this short blog post, I will talk about some common mistakes that are done by researchers when submitting a paper to a journal or conference. And there are certainly many other mistakes. Those are the ones that comes to … Continue reading

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An Introduction to Episode Mining

In this blog post, I will talk about pattern mining (finding patterns in data) data mining task called episode mining. It aim at discovering interesting patterns in a long sequence of symbols or events. Sequence data is an important type … Continue reading

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Key Papers about Episode Mining

This post presents the key papers about episode mining. If you are not familiar with what is episode mining, it is a data mining task, which aims at finding patterns in a sequence of events or symbols . A short … Continue reading

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What is Machine Learning?

In recent years, machine learning has become a popular research area of computer science. In this blog post, I will talk about what is machine learning. What is machine learning? Machine learning is computer programs (algorithms) that can learn to … Continue reading

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Why Journal Special Issues are Popular?

In this blog post, I will talk about journal special issues. I will talk about how special issues of journals are organized and why it can be good to submit to or organize academic journal special issues. What is a … Continue reading

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Useful Latex tricks for Writing Research Papers

In this blog post, I will talk about some useful latex tricks for researchers writing research papers using Latex. This blog post is aimed at those who knows already how to use Latex but maybe do not know these tricks. … Continue reading

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