Category Archives: Data Mining

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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How to Detect and Classify Metamorphic Malware with Sequential Pattern Mining (MalSPM)

Malware are malicious software that can harm computers and networks by stealing data, encrypting files, or damaging devices. Malware are a serious threat to cybersecurity, especially when they can change their appearance to evade detection by antivirus software. This is … Continue reading

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SPMF’s architecture (5) The Graphical User Interface

This is the fifth post of a series of blog posts about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. Today, I will specifically talk about the graphical user interface of SPMF, its main components and how it interacts with … 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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SPMF’s architecture (4) The MemoryLogger

Today, I will continue the series of blog posts to explain the architecture of the SPMF data mining library, and I will talk in particular about a module in SPMF called the MemoryLogger. This module is responsible for recording the … Continue reading

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SPMF’s architecture (3) The Preference Manager

This is the third of a series of blog posts about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. Today, I will explain the role of another an internal module in SPMF, called the Preference Manager. This module is used … Continue reading

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A Glossary of Pattern Mining

Pattern mining is a popular research area in data mining, which aims at discovering interesting and useful patterns in data. It is a field of research that has been active for over 25 years and there is a lot of … Continue reading

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SPMF’s architecture (2) The Main class and the Command Processor

In this blog post, I will continue explaining the architecture of the SPMF data mining library. In the previous post, I have introduced a key component of SPMF called the Algorithm Manager, which manages all the algorithms offered in SPMF. … Continue reading

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SPMF’s architecture (1) The Algorithm Manager

In this new series of blog posts, I will talk about the architecture of the SPMF data mining library, and in particular, I will talk about the AlgorithmManager, which is a key component of SPMF, which manages all the algorithms … Continue reading

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How to call SPMF from Visual Basic .Net (VB)?

Today, I will explain how to use SPMF from Visual Basic .Net. Previously, I have explained how to call SPMF from C#, from R, from C++ (on Windows) and from Python. Requirements Let me first describe the requirements. It is … Continue reading

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