Category Archives: Conference

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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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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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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Expensive Academic Conferences – the case of ICDM

Posted on 2018-11-08 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I was recently thinking of attending IEEE ICDM 2018 (International Conference on Data Mining) in Singapore, next month. It is a top 5 data mining conference. According to my schedule, I could attend it for 2 days, and since Singapore is close to China, it … Continue reading →

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Report about the DEXA 2018 and DAWAK 2018 conferences

Posted on 2018-09-06 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I am attending the DEXA 2018 (29th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications) and the DAWAK 2018 (20th Intern. Conf. on Data Warehousing and Knowledge Discovery) conferences from the 3rd to 6th September in Regensburg, Germany. Those two conferences are well established European conferences dedicated mainly to research on database and data mining. These conferences are always collocated. … Continue reading →

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Report about the KDD 2018 conference

Posted on 2018-08-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I am participating to the KDD 2018 ( 24th ACM SIGKDD Intern. Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), in London, UK from the 19th to 23rd August 2018. The KDD conference is an international conference, established 24 years ago. It is the top conference in the field of data mining / … Continue reading →

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IEA AIE 2018 conference (a brief report)

Posted on 2018-06-30 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I am attending the IEA AIE 2018 conference ( 31st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems) in Montreal, Canada. About the conference The IEA AIE conference is an international conference on artificial intelligence and related topics. Conference opening On Tuesday morning, it was the conference opening. This year,  146 papers … Continue reading →

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PAKDD 2018 Conference (a brief report)

Posted on 2018-06-01 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will discuss the PAKDD 2018 conference (Pacific Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining), in Melbourne Australia, from the 3rd June to the 6th June 2018. About the PAKDD conference PAKDD is an important conference in the data science / data mining research community, mainly attended by researchers from … Continue reading →

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China International BigData Industry Expo 2018 (a brief report)

Posted on 2018-05-28 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week I have attended the China International Big Data Industry Expo 2018 in Guiyang, China. I will describe this event and some of the key things that I have observed so far. What is the China International Big Data Industry Expo? It is an international event targeted toward the industry and focused on big data, which is aimed … Continue reading →

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Brief report about the WICON 2017 conference

Posted on 2017-12-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week-end, I have attended the WICON 2017 conference in Tianjin, China to present a research paper about the application of data mining to analyze data from water meters installed in the City of Moncton, Canada. In this post, I will give a brief overview of the WICON 2017 conference. About the conference This … Continue reading →

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