Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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Vertical and horizontal databases in itemset mining

Itemset mining is a data mining task for discovering patterns that appear frequently in transaction databases. In this context, a pattern, also called a frequent itemset, is a set of values that frequently occur together in transactions (records) of a … Continue reading

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CFP: PM4B 2005: A new workshop on pattern mining and machine learning in bioinformatics @ PAKDD 2025

Today, I would like to announce that we are creating a new workshop for PAKDD 2025 called the 1st Workshop on Pattern mining and Machine learning for Bioinformatics (PM4B 2025). The goal of the workshop is to establish a collaborative platform … Continue reading

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Merry X-mas and Happy New Year!

Today, it is just a short blog post to wish happy holidays, merry X-mas and Happy New Year to all users and developers of SPMF, from all around the world! More surprises will come for 2025. I am currently ending … Continue reading

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