Category Archives: Data Mining

Brief report about ICSI 2021 (12th Int. Conference on Swarm Intelligence)

Posted on 2021-07-15 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about attending the 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2021). The ICSI conference is a relatively young conference about swarm intelligence, metaheuristics and related topics and applications. This year, ICSI 2021 is held in … Continue reading →

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Key Papers about High Utility Itemset Mining

Posted on 2021-06-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about the most important algorithms for high utility itemset mining. I will present a list of algorithms that is of course subjective (according to my opinion). I did not list all the papers of … Continue reading →

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UDML 2021 @ ICDM 2021

Posted on 2021-04-15 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi all, This is to let you know that the UDML workshop on utility driven mining and learning is back again this year at ICDM 2021, for the fourth edition. The topic of this workshop is the concept of utility … Continue reading →

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Mining Episode Rules (video)

Posted on 2021-04-11 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will share the video of our most recent data mining paper presented last week at ACIIDS 2021. It is about a new algorithm named POERM for about analyzing sequences of events or symbols. The algorithm will find rules … Continue reading →

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A Brief Report about ACIIDS 2021 (13th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems)

Posted on 2021-04-06 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give a brief report about the ACIIDS 2021 conference, that I am attending from April 7–10, 2021. What is ACIIDS? ACIIDS is an international conference focusing on intelligent information and database systems. The conference … Continue reading →

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An Overview of Pattern Mining Techniques

Posted on 2021-03-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give an overview of some of the main pattern mining tasks, to explain what kind of patterns can be found in different types of symbolic data. I will describe some main types of data … Continue reading →

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Analyzing the COVID-19 genome with AI and data mining techniques (paper + data + code)

Posted on 2021-02-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Recently, my team has been working on analyzing COVID-19 genome sequences using pattern mining and other data mining and AI techniques. We have recently published a paper in the Applied Intelligence journal about this. In this blog post, I will … Continue reading →

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New version of SPMF (2.44): 4 new algorithms, datasets and features

Posted on 2021-02-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I am happy to announce that a new version of the SPMF open-source data mining software is released (v. 2.44). This is the download page. This new version was made possible due to several contributors. What is new? New … Continue reading →

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An introduction to frequent subgraph mining

Posted on 2021-02-05 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give an introduction to an interesting data mining task called frequent subgraph mining, which consists of discovering interesting patterns in graphs (a pattern mining task). This task is important since data is naturally represented as graph in many domains (e.g. … Continue reading →

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Sequential pattern mining vs Sequence prediction ?

Posted on 2021-02-04 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will answer a question that I have received in my e-mail about what is the difference between sequential pattern mining and sequence prediction. I think that this is a good question and sharing the answer … Continue reading →

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