Monthly Archives: December 2018

How to improve the quality of your research papers?

Posted on 2018-12-28 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I talk about how to improve the quality of your research papers. This is an important topic as most researchers aim at publishing papers in top level conferences and journals for various reasons such as graduating, obtaining a promotion or securing funding. … Continue reading →

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(video) Mining Sequential Rules with RuleGrowth

Posted on 2018-12-26 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a video presentation of the paper “Mining Partially-Ordered Sequential Rules Common to Multiple Sequences” about discovering sequential rules in sequences using the RuleGrowth algorithm. VIDEO LINK: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/rulegrowth.mp4 More information about the RuleGrowth algorithm are provided in this research paper: Fournier-Viger, P., Wu, C.-W., Tseng, V.S., Cao, L., Nkambou, R. (2015). Mining Partially-Ordered Sequential Rules Common to Multiple … Continue reading →

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Report about the 2018 International Workshop on Mining of Massive Data and IoT

Posted on 2018-12-22 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I have attended the 2018 International Workshop on Mining of Massive Data and IoT  (2018 年大数据与物联网挖掘国际研讨会) organized by the Fujian Normal University in the city of  Fuzhou, China from the 18th to 20thDecember 2018. I have attended the workshop to give a talk … Continue reading →

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(video) Minimal Correlated High Utility Itemsets with FCHM

Posted on 2018-12-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a video presentation of the paper “Mining Correlated High-Utility Itemsets Using the bond Measure” about correlated high utility pattern mining using FCHM.  VIDEO LINK: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/FCHM_correlated_itemsets.mp4 More information about the FCHM algorithm are provided in this research paper: Fournier-Viger, P., Zhang, Y., Lin, J. C.-W., … Continue reading →

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Report about the ICGEC 2018 conference

Posted on 2018-12-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I have recently attended the ICGEC 2018 conference (12th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing) from December 14-17, 2018 in Changzhou, China. In this blog post, I will describe activities that I have attended at the conference. About the ICGEC conference IGCEC is … Continue reading →

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Introduction to frequent subranking mining

Posted on 2018-12-13 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Rankings are made in many fields, as we naturally tend to rank objects, persons or things, in different contexts. For example, in a singing or a sport competition, some judges will rank participants from worst to best and give prizes to … Continue reading →

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