Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

New version of SPMF: 2.63!

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

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

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

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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CFP: HP4MoDa 2025 @ IEEE BIBM 2025

Today, I would like to announce a new workshop that will be held at the IEEE BIBM 2025 conference, called 1st Workshop on Heuristic and Pattern Mining for Multi-Omics Data Analytics. This workshop is suitable for pattern mining papers and … Continue reading

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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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