Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Fake reviews…

Today, I would like to talk about something that happens sometimes in academic journals, which is fake reviews. While many reviewers spend time to write reviews that provide a fair evaluation of papers, some reviewers have a very unethical behavior … Continue reading

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SPMF: upcoming feature: The Memory Viewer

Today, I would like to introduce an upcoming feature that will be released in the next version of SPMF (v. 2.60). It is a tool called the Memory Viewer. This tool is very simple yet useful for investigating the performance … Continue reading

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(video) The EFIM algorithm

Here is a new video that I have recorded to explain the EFIM algorithm for high utility itemset mining. You can watch the video here. Related to this, if you want to try the EFIM algorithm, the original source code … Continue reading

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(video) Introduction to episode mining

If you want to learn more about frequent episode mining, I have put online a new video that gives an introduction to this topic. To watch the video, you can download it from my website here or watch it from … Continue reading

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As a speaker, we should always be ready for the unexpected…

I often say that as an invited speaker for a conference or as a teacher for a course, we need to be ready for the unexpected and be prepared for every situation that could happen. This means for example, to … Continue reading

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Two common English errors in pattern mining papers

This is a short blog post to talk about two common errors in pattern mining research papers. 1) The first error is: “mining frequent itemsets from a database” “mining patterns from a stream”“mining patterns over a database”“mining patterns over a … Continue reading

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How to become a well-known researcher?

The other day, a young researcher asked me: what should I do to become a more well-known researcher in my field? In this blog post, I will try to answer that question. But before that, it should be said that … Continue reading

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Call for tutorials at BESC 2023

This year, I am tutorial chair of BESC 2023 (THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BEHAVIOURAL AND SOCIAL COMPUTING) BESC 2023 (besc-conf.org) in Cyprus, from 30th October to 1st November. I am looking for some people who could give a tutorial … Continue reading

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Some shortcomings of CSRankings

CSRankings is a popular website that provides a ranking of computer science departments around the world. The website can be found at: https://csrankings.org/ In this blog post, I will talk about this ranking and some of its shortcomings. Of course, … Continue reading

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An Online Demo of the Eclat Algorithm

I have created a new interactive webpage to demonstrate how the Eclat algorithm is applied for frequent itemset mining. This webpage allows to enter a transaction database, select the minimum support and to see step by step what the Eclat … Continue reading

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