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- The 1st HP4MoDa workshop was held at BIBM 2025
- Another release of SPMF: v2.64b
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- A new version of SPMF (v2.64, november 2025)!
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Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger
UDML 2023 workshop!
I’m excited to announce that I am co-organizing a new edition of the Utility-Driven Mining and Learning (UDML) workshop, which will be colocated with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2023 in Shanghai, China. The UDML workshop aims … Continue reading
Posted in Big data, Conference, Data Mining, Data science, Pattern Mining
Tagged data mining, data science, machine learning, pattern mining, udml, utility, utility learning, utility mining
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How to propose a special issue for a journal?
Today, I will talk about how to propose a special issue for a journal. What is a special issue? A special issue is a collection of articles on a specific topic or theme that is published in a journal. Special … Continue reading
ASCII Art for SPMF
Today, just for fun, I generated some ASCII arts for the SPMF data mining library using this tool: http://textkool.com/en/ascii-art-generator?hl=default&vl=default&font=Red%20Phoenix&text=Your%20text%20here%20 I think the result is not bad but I am not sure if I would use it: _____ _____ __ __ … Continue reading
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Efficiency problems with using java.util.Hashmap
Today, I will talk about some efficiency problems when using the java.util.Hashmap data structure provided by Java. This is an important topics for programmers that aim at implementing efficient software that rely on maps. Brief review about HashMap First, let’s … Continue reading
Posted in Java, Programming
Tagged complexity, efficiency, efficiency problems, hashmap, implementation, java, map, memory, performance, programming, time
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SPMF’s architecture (5) The Graphical User Interface
This is the fifth post of a series of blog posts about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. Today, I will specifically talk about the graphical user interface of SPMF, its main components and how it interacts with … Continue reading
Posted in Data Mining, Data science, Java, open-source, spmf
Tagged architecture, data mining, data science, graphical user interface, gui, java, open source, pattern mining, software, spmf
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SPMF 3.0: Towards even more efficiency
In this blog post, I will talk about the future of SPMF. I do this once in a while. Today, I will discuss on the performance of SPMF. Performance A main focus of SPMF is and has always been efficiency … Continue reading
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SPMF’s architecture (4) The MemoryLogger
Today, I will continue the series of blog posts to explain the architecture of the SPMF data mining library, and I will talk in particular about a module in SPMF called the MemoryLogger. This module is responsible for recording the … Continue reading
Posted in Data Mining, Data science, open-source, Pattern Mining, spmf
Tagged data mining, data science, GPL, java, open source, pattern mining, software, spmf
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Unethical services in academia
Today, some people contacted me on LinkedIn to ask me if I have any papers where I could sell the authorship. I was quite amazed that someone would ask me that… But I have heard that it is something that … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Research
Tagged academia, articles, authorship, ethic, papers, publishing
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SPMF’s architecture (3) The Preference Manager
This is the third of a series of blog posts about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. Today, I will explain the role of another an internal module in SPMF, called the Preference Manager. This module is used … Continue reading
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