Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Vertical and horizontal databases in itemset mining

Itemset mining is a data mining task for discovering patterns that appear frequently in transaction databases. In this context, a pattern, also called a frequent itemset, is a set of values that frequently occur together in transactions (records) of a … Continue reading

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CFP: PM4B 2005: A new workshop on pattern mining and machine learning in bioinformatics @ PAKDD 2025

Today, I would like to announce that we are creating a new workshop for PAKDD 2025 called the 1st Workshop on Pattern mining and Machine learning for Bioinformatics (PM4B 2025). The goal of the workshop is to establish a collaborative platform … Continue reading

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Merry X-mas and Happy New Year!

Today, it is just a short blog post to wish happy holidays, merry X-mas and Happy New Year to all users and developers of SPMF, from all around the world! More surprises will come for 2025. I am currently ending … Continue reading

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About Academic conferences in China

Recently, I have attended the launch of The Blue Book on the Development of International Academic Conferences in china 2024 (中国国际学术会议发展蓝皮书 2024) published by the AEIC (哎思科蓝)company. This report is very interesting as it gives many insights about academic conferences … Continue reading

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An ethical issue in the Elsevier “International Journal of Hydrogen Energy” ?

Today, I saw something quite incredible in the Elsevier journal “International Journal of Hydrogen Energy“, which you can see in the screen shot below: The authors wrote: As strongly requested by the reviewers, here we cite some references [[35], [36], [37], [38], [39], [40], [41], [42], [43], [44], [45], [46], [47]] although … Continue reading

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End of my term as associate editor for Array

I have been associate editor for the Array journal of Elsevier for 4 years. I have been happy to do this work but it is now the time for me to move on and focus on other things. What is … Continue reading

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Computer Science Journals and Conferences with the most withdrawals in 2023

Today, we will look at Computer Science Journals and Conferences that have the largest number of retracted or withdrawn articles in 2023. A paper can be withdrawn for various reasons such as plagiarism, papers with fake results, conflict of interests, … Continue reading

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Reducing the cost of web hosting…

I am hosting my websites for more than 15 years on a web hosting service called IONOS (formerly 1and1), which is not free. I do this because it gives me a lot of flexibility for making websites. However, today, I … Continue reading

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SPMF 2.62 is released!

This is a short blog post to announce that SPMF 2.62 is released, and can be downloaded from the SPMF website‘s download page. The previous version of SPMF (2.60) introduced a lot of new features, also with some code refactoring, … Continue reading

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My research is open-source

Since the last decade, I have taken the decision to publish most of the algorithms that I develop in my research, freely, as part of the open-source SPMF data mining software that I have founded. The goal is that anyone … Continue reading

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