Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

How to fix reviewresponse.cls for custom reviewer numbering

Recently, I have found anice Latex class that can be used to write answers to reviewers for the rebuttal of journal papers. This latex class is called reviewresponse.cls, which can be found on GitHub. It allows to write an answer … Continue reading

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The Conference Hotel Booking Scam

Something interesting happened to me in the last few days. To my knowledge, this seems to be a scam, and to be something relatively new, so I want to share the information. Here is the context. I will be a … Continue reading

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Huge traffic from a botnet looking for datasets

Today, I received an e-mail from the Web hosting company indicating that my website had exceeded the bandwidth limit of the content delivery network (CDN) for my package. I was quite surprised. Hence, I checked the control panel, and I … Continue reading

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New version of SPMF: 2.63!

This is just a short blog post to let you know that SPMF 2.63 is released on the SPMF website, with some new features such as the Visual Pattern Viewer (to display patterns visually), and also some new algorithms and … Continue reading

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Upcoming feature of SPMF 2.63: Taxonomy Viewer

Today, I want to share briefly a new feature of the upcoming SPMF version 2.63, which is the taxonomy viewer. This tools allow to visualize a taxonomy used by algorithms such as CLH-Miner and FEACP. The user interface is for … Continue reading

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CFP: The OCSA 2025 conference

Today, I would like to share the call for papers for the upcoming OCSA 2025 conference, which will be held in Changsha, capital of the Hunan province of China. The details of the conference are as follows: International Conference on … Continue reading

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Update on SPMF next version: the visual pattern viewer

I am still working on the upcoming version of SPMF. There is still much work todo. Following the previous post, I would like to give you a glimpse of the new visual pattern viewer that is under development for SPMF. … Continue reading

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CFP: HP4MoDa 2025 @ IEEE BIBM 2025

Today, I would like to announce a new workshop that will be held at the IEEE BIBM 2025 conference, called 1st Workshop on Heuristic and Pattern Mining for Multi-Omics Data Analytics. This workshop is suitable for pattern mining papers and … Continue reading

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An Improved Pattern Viewer

Today, I will talk about some features of the upcoming version of SPMF 2.63 that I am working on and is planned for release next month. Improved Pattern Visualizer window The first feature is an improvement of the Pattern Viewer … Continue reading

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Computer Science Journals and Conferences with the most withdrawals in 2024

We are now in 2025, and like last year, I will analyze the list of the computer science journals and conferences with the most withdrawal for the previous year (see this blog post for 2023). Methodology To verify how many … Continue reading

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