Author Archives: Philippe Fournier-Viger

The 7th China International Technology Expo – CITE 2019 (a brief report)

Posted on 2019-04-11 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I have attended the 7th China International Technology Expo (CITE 2019), which was held at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center in the city of Shenzhen, China from the 9th to the 11th April 2019. In this blog post, I will give a brief overview of this fair, where various companies were showing … Continue reading →

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The best data mining mailing lists (for researchers)

Posted on 2019-03-17 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will list a few useful mailing lists related to data mining and big data. Subscribing to these mailing list is useful for PhD students and researchers, as many jobs, conferences, special issues and other opportunities are advertised on these mailing lists. It is … Continue reading →

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Analyzing the source code of SPMF (5 years later)

Posted on 2019-01-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Five years ago, I had analyzed the source code of the SPMF data mining software using an open-source tool called CodeAnalyzer ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/codeanalyze-gpl/ ). This had provided some interesting insights about the structure of the project, especially in terms of lines of codes and code to … Continue reading →

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How to improve the quality of your research papers?

Posted on 2018-12-28 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I talk about how to improve the quality of your research papers. This is an important topic as most researchers aim at publishing papers in top level conferences and journals for various reasons such as graduating, obtaining a promotion or securing funding. … Continue reading →

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(video) Mining Sequential Rules with RuleGrowth

Posted on 2018-12-26 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a video presentation of the paper “Mining Partially-Ordered Sequential Rules Common to Multiple Sequences” about discovering sequential rules in sequences using the RuleGrowth algorithm. VIDEO LINK: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/rulegrowth.mp4 More information about the RuleGrowth algorithm are provided in this research paper: Fournier-Viger, P., Wu, C.-W., Tseng, V.S., Cao, L., Nkambou, R. (2015). Mining Partially-Ordered Sequential Rules Common to Multiple … Continue reading →

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Report about the 2018 International Workshop on Mining of Massive Data and IoT

Posted on 2018-12-22 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I have attended the 2018 International Workshop on Mining of Massive Data and IoT  (2018 年大数据与物联网挖掘国际研讨会) organized by the Fujian Normal University in the city of  Fuzhou, China from the 18th to 20thDecember 2018. I have attended the workshop to give a talk … Continue reading →

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(video) Minimal Correlated High Utility Itemsets with FCHM

Posted on 2018-12-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a video presentation of the paper “Mining Correlated High-Utility Itemsets Using the bond Measure” about correlated high utility pattern mining using FCHM.  VIDEO LINK: https://www.philippe-fournier-viger.com/spmf/videos/FCHM_correlated_itemsets.mp4 More information about the FCHM algorithm are provided in this research paper: Fournier-Viger, P., Zhang, Y., Lin, J. C.-W., … Continue reading →

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Report about the ICGEC 2018 conference

Posted on 2018-12-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I have recently attended the ICGEC 2018 conference (12th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing) from December 14-17, 2018 in Changzhou, China. In this blog post, I will describe activities that I have attended at the conference. About the ICGEC conference IGCEC is … Continue reading →

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Introduction to frequent subranking mining

Posted on 2018-12-13 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Rankings are made in many fields, as we naturally tend to rank objects, persons or things, in different contexts. For example, in a singing or a sport competition, some judges will rank participants from worst to best and give prizes to … Continue reading →

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Is the next artificial intelligence winter coming?

Posted on 2018-11-25 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In recent years, there have been an increased interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This is due  in part to some advances for training and building neural networks, which have allowed to solve some difficult problems with greater success. This has lead … Continue reading →

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