Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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Unusual Web traffic and end of the forum.

Hi all! Today, I write a blog post to announce that I have decided to close the data mining forum, which was hosted on this website at http://forum2.philippe-fournier-viger.com/ . The forum was a small website that was connected to my … Continue reading

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Fast and Effective Genome Sequence Compression, with a multi-purpose method called HMG (2025)

Genomic data is growing at an unprecedented rate, but storing and transmitting it efficiently remains a challenge. Several solutions have been proposed in the literature for compressing genome sequences in recent years such as JARVIS3, GeCo3, and NUHT. However, several … Continue reading

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Categorical data clustering: 25 years beyond K-modes (a survey)

If you are interested by categorical data clustering, I am glad to announce that a new and up-to-date survey paper named “Categorical data clustering: 25 years beyond K-modes” will appear on this topic in the Expert Systems with Applications journal. … Continue reading

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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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