Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

Sequential pattern mining vs Sequence prediction ?

Posted on 2021-02-04 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will answer a question that I have received in my e-mail about what is the difference between sequential pattern mining and sequence prediction. I think that this is a good question and sharing the answer … Continue reading →

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Email invitation to be a “special” speaker, a scam?

Posted on 2021-02-01 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Have you ever received an e-mail from some small conference telling you that they want to invite you to give a talk as a special speaker, honorary speaker or distinguished speaker? I received several e-mails like this and while something … Continue reading →

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Two journal special issues with deadlines in 2021

Posted on 2021-01-28 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a short blog post tto let you know that I am co-organizing two special issues in some journals related to data mining, data science and machine learning: (1) Special issue on Spatiotemporal Big Data Analytics Journal: Electronics Publisher: … Continue reading →

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Atomic Habits to Become a Better Researcher

Posted on 2021-01-28 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about the concept of atomic habits and how it can help you achieve your goals in general, but especially to become a better researcher. The concept of Atomic Habits, was popularized in a … Continue reading →

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The Hard Road to Success in Academia

Posted on 2021-01-23 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will talk about at topic that not many researchers talk about, which is the long and hard road to become a professor in academia, and why some people give up before reaching their goal at different stages of … Continue reading →

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How to become a journal or conference reviewer?

Posted on 2021-01-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will write a blog post aimed a young researchers, who want to know what is the work of a reviewer in academia, how to become a reviewer of international journals or conferences, and what are the benefits of being a reviewer. What … Continue reading →

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If I would do a PhD again, what would I do differently?

Posted on 2021-01-08 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Recently, I gave an invited talk at University of Pisa in Italy (online). A PhD student asked me: If you would do a PhD again, what would you do differently? In this blog post, I will answer this question, which … Continue reading →

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Analyzing COVID-19 tweets to understand the public opinion

Posted on 2021-01-05 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk briefly about how tweets collected on Twitter can be analyzed to understand the public opinion about COVID-19. This is based on the below research paper, that I have recently participated to: Noor, S., … Continue reading →

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The Controversy around Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) and related models

Posted on 2021-01-01 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will talk about an interesting topic in academia which is the controversy around ELM (Extreme Learning Machine) and its origins. This has been a hot topic of discussion in the field of machine learning for more than a … Continue reading →

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Discovering Alarm Correlation Rules for Network Fault Management (video)

Posted on 2020-12-29 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will share the video of our new paper about analyzing alarms in telecomunication networks presented at the AIOPS 2020 workshop. This work is part of an industrial collaboration project. The motivation for this project is … Continue reading →

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