Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Brief report about the SMARTDSC 2022 conference

This week, besides IEA AIE 2022, I am also participating to the SMARTDSC 2022 conference (5th international conference on Smart Technologies in Data Science and Communication) as general co-chair and keynote speaker. I will give a brief report about this … Continue reading

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Brief report about the IEA AIE 2022 conference

This week, I am attending the 35th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems conference (IEA AIE 2022). I will give a brief report about the conference Program This year, the conference received 127 paper … Continue reading

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How to draw subgraphs side-by-side in Latex? (with TIKZ)

Today, I will give an example of how to draw a figure containing three subgraphs that appear side by side in Latex using the TIKZ library, and where each subgraph has a caption. This can be useful when writing research … Continue reading

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(videos) Introduction to sequential rule mining + the CMRules algorithm

I have made two new videos to explain interesting topics about pattern mining. The first video is an introduction to sequential rule mining, while the second video explains in more details how the CMRules algorithm for sequential rule mining works! … Continue reading

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(video) Periodic Pattern Mining

Hi all, this is to let you know that I have made another video to explain some interesting pattern mining topics. This time, I will talk about periodic pattern mining. You can watch the video here: (pdf / ppt / video – 34 min)  … Continue reading

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Drawing the Powerset of a Set using Latex and TIKZ (Hasse Diagram)

Today, I will show how to draw the powerset of a set using Latex and TIKZ, to produce some nice figures that can be used in paper written using Latex. The code that is shown below is adapted from code … Continue reading

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A New Tool for Running Performance Comparison of Algorithms in SPMF 2.54

Today, I am happy to announce a cool new feature in SPMF 2.54, which is a tool to automatically run performance experiments to compare several algorithms when a parameter is varied. This is a useful feature to compare algorithms when … Continue reading

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Abnormal Google Scholar Profiles

Today, I will talk about signs that show that something is wrong or suspicious with some researchers based on their Google Scholar profiles. I will talk about this because I have recently received many CVs and while browsing Google Scholar, … Continue reading

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How to draw an FP-Tree in Latex? (using TIKZ)

In this blog post, I will show how to draw a beautiful FP-Tree data structure in a Latex document. The FP-Tree is a tree-like structure that was proposed in the FP-Growth algorithm for itemset mining, and is also used in … Continue reading

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UDML 2022 workshop on utility mining and learning is back at ICDM

I am glad to announce that the UDML workshop (5th Workshop on Utility-Driven Mining and Learning) will be back for the IEEE ICDM 2022 conference this year. The main focus of this workshop is about the concept of utility or … Continue reading

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