Category Archives: Big data

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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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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The story of the most influential paper award of PAKDD 2024

Recently, I have attended the PAKDD 2024 conference, where I was happy to receive the most influential paper award with my co-authors. This award is a test of time type of award that is given to the paper from PAKDD … Continue reading

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A brief report about PAKDD 2024

This week, I have attended PAKDD 2024 in the city of Taipei. It was a great conference with good keynote speakers, activities and opportunities for learning and networking. In this blog post, I will give a brief overview of the … Continue reading

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Sneak peak at the new user interface of SPMF (part 1)

I am currently working on the next version of SPMF, which will be called 2.60. There will be several improvements to the user interface of SPMF. Here is an overview of some of the improvements to give you a sneak … Continue reading

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An Online Demo of the Eclat Algorithm

I have created a new interactive webpage to demonstrate how the Eclat algorithm is applied for frequent itemset mining. This webpage allows to enter a transaction database, select the minimum support and to see step by step what the Eclat … Continue reading

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Discovering the Top-K Stable Periodic Patterns in a Sequence of Events

In this blog post, I will give a brief introduction to the TSPIN paper about how to find stable periodic patterns in a sequence of events. This algorithm was presented in this research paper: Fournier-Viger, P., Wang Y., Yang, P., … Continue reading

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UDML 2023 workshop!

I’m excited to announce that I am co-organizing a new edition of the Utility-Driven Mining and Learning (UDML) workshop, which will be colocated with the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM) 2023 in Shanghai, China. The UDML workshop aims … Continue reading

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SPMF 3.0: Towards even more efficiency

In this blog post, I will talk about the future of SPMF. I do this once in a while. Today, I will discuss on the performance of SPMF. Performance A main focus of SPMF is and has always been efficiency … Continue reading

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Brief report about the BDA 2022 conference

This week, I wasattending the BDA 2022 conference, which is the 10th International Conference on Big Data Analytics. The BDA 2022 conference washeld in Hyderabad, India from the 20th to 22nd December 2022. The BDA conference is an international conference … Continue reading

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