Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Academic genealogy

Today, I will talk briefly about a general topic related to research which is academic genealogy. Just as families pass knowledge and traditions across generations, researchers also inherit ideas, methods, and scientific values from their supervisors and mentors. In many … Continue reading

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An EXE version of SPMF for Windows

Today, I want to announce that I have included a compiled EXE version of SPMF.jar for Windows 64 bits on the Download page of SPMF. It is especially useful if you cannot or do not want to install Java on … Continue reading

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A First Release of SPMF-Server and SPMF-Server Clients

Over the years, I have developed the SPMF library with collaborators as a comprehensive toolkit for pattern mining, with the goal of making a large number of algorithms easily accessible for research and teaching. While SPMF has been widely used … Continue reading

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CFP: Special session at SOMET 2026

In this post, I want to talk about a special session on Knowledge Science and Intelligent Computing (KSIC) that I am co-organizing this year at the SOMET 2026 conference (25th Int. Conf. on Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools, and Techniques). I … Continue reading

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SPMF 2.65 is released!

Today, I want to announce that a new version of the SPMF data mining library and software has been released, which is version 2.65. This version bring several improvements, including 8 new algorithms, several optimizations, and new user interface tools … Continue reading

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The Item-Itemset Matrix Viewer: a new feature in SPMF 2.65 (to be released)

Today, I will talk to you about a new for visualizing itemsets that will be released soon in SPMF 2.65. This tool called the Itemset-Item Matrix Viewer will be available for any algorithm that produce itemsets to visualize results in … Continue reading

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Merry X-Mas and Happy New year to SPMF users!

Just a short blog post today to wish you happy holidays and Merry X-Mas to those who are celebrating it, among the users of SPMF! Thanks again for your support! Related posts: What I learned from being a journal editor … Continue reading

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The 1st HP4MoDa workshop was held at BIBM 2025

Today, the first workshop 1st Workshop on Heuristic and Pattern Mining for Multi-Omics Data Analytics was held at IEEE BIBM 2025, online. I co-organize this workshop with M. Saqib Nawaz and other collaborators. The workshop focus on various machine learning … Continue reading

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Another release of SPMF: v2.64b

In November, I released the version 2.64 of SPMF with 5 new algorithms and 2 new tools, among other improvements, but I still had several other pattern mining algorithms waiting to be released after more tests. Thus, today, I make … Continue reading

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A prototype of an improved GUI for the SPMF pattern mining software

Recently, I have been working on improving the SPMF data mining software. Something good about SPMF is that it has a simple user interface. But as SPMF has evolved with more and more algorithms, the list of algorithms in the … Continue reading

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