Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

GMP: A new algorithm for compressing protein sequences

Posted on 2025-11-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I am pleased to share that our team has published a new algorithm called GMP for the compression and analysis of protein sequences. The paper will appear next month at BIBM 2025. Here is the full reference: Nawaz, M. … Continue reading →

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A new tool for visualizing algorithms from SPMF

Posted on 2025-11-16 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I wrote some code to visualize the relationships between the algorithms offered in the SPMF open-source pattern mining library. Here is the graph of all algorithms in SPMF (excluding tools) that have the same input and output type: We … Continue reading →

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Fixing the reviewresponse.cls LaTeX Class to Allow Multi-Page Comments

Posted on 2025-10-22 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will show how to fix the Latex reviewresponse.cls class to allow multi-page comments. If you have ever written a detailed response to reviewers in LaTeX, you may have noticed that long reviewer comments sometimes get cut off instead … Continue reading →

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How to fix reviewresponse.cls for custom reviewer numbering

Posted on 2025-09-30 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Recently, I have found anice Latex class that can be used to write answers to reviewers for the rebuttal of journal papers. This latex class is called reviewresponse.cls, which can be found on GitHub. It allows to write an answer … Continue reading →

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The Conference Hotel Booking Scam

Posted on 2025-08-31 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Something interesting happened to me in the last few days. To my knowledge, this seems to be a scam, and to be something relatively new, so I want to share the information. Here is the context. I will be a … Continue reading →

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Huge traffic from a botnet looking for datasets

Posted on 2025-08-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I received an e-mail from the Web hosting company indicating that my website had exceeded the bandwidth limit of the content delivery network (CDN) for my package. I was quite surprised. Hence, I checked the control panel, and I … Continue reading →

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New version of SPMF: 2.63!

Posted on 2025-08-05 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is just a short blog post to let you know that SPMF 2.63 is released on the SPMF website, with some new features such as the Visual Pattern Viewer (to display patterns visually), and also some new algorithms and … Continue reading →

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Upcoming feature of SPMF 2.63: Taxonomy Viewer

Posted on 2025-06-19 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I want to share briefly a new feature of the upcoming SPMF version 2.63, which is the taxonomy viewer. This tools allow to visualize a taxonomy used by algorithms such as CLH-Miner and FEACP. The user interface is for … Continue reading →

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CFP: The OCSA 2025 conference

Posted on 2025-06-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I would like to share the call for papers for the upcoming OCSA 2025 conference, which will be held in Changsha, capital of the Hunan province of China. The details of the conference are as follows: International Conference on … Continue reading →

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Update on SPMF next version: the visual pattern viewer

Posted on 2025-06-02 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I am still working on the upcoming version of SPMF. There is still much work todo. Following the previous post, I would like to give you a glimpse of the new visual pattern viewer that is under development for SPMF. … Continue reading →

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