Category Archives: Data Mining

CFP: HP4MoDa 2025 @ IEEE BIBM 2025

Posted on 2025-05-30 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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

Posted on 2025-04-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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Fast and Effective Genome Sequence Compression, with a multi-purpose method called HMG (2025)

Posted on 2025-03-26 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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)

Posted on 2025-01-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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

Posted on 2025-01-11 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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

Posted on 2024-12-31 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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SPMF 2.62 is released!

Posted on 2024-06-13 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a short blog post to announce that SPMF 2.62 is released, and can be downloaded from the SPMF website‘s download page. The previous version of SPMF (2.60) introduced a lot of new features, also with some code refactoring, … Continue reading →

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The story of the most influential paper award of PAKDD 2024

Posted on 2024-05-12 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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

Posted on 2024-05-10 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

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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SPMF 2.60 is released!

Posted on 2024-04-21 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This is a short message today to announce that the new version of SPMF 2.60 is finally released! This is a major version as it contains many new things. The full lists of changes can be found on the download … Continue reading →

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