Category Archives: Research

Why I left Canada to work as a University Professor in China

Posted on 2016-09-15 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

One year and a half ago, I was working as a professor at a university in Canada. But I took the decision to not renew my contract and move to China. At that time, some people may have thought that I was crazy to leave my job … Continue reading →

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Brief report about the Dexa 2016 and Dawak 2016 conferences

Posted on 2016-09-06 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I have been attending the DEXA 2016 and DA‎WAK 2016 conferences, in Porto, Portugal, from the 4th to 8th September 2016, to present three papers. In this blog post, I will give a brief report about these conferences. About these … Continue reading →

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Brief report about the IEA AIE 2016 conference

Posted on 2016-08-04 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week, I have attended the IEA AIE 2016 conference, held at Morioka, Japan from the 2nd to the 4th August 2016. In this blog post, I will briefly discuss the conference. About the conference IEA AIE 2016 (29th International Conference … Continue reading →

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How to give a good paper presentation at an academic conference?

Posted on 2016-07-21 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will discuss how to give a good paper presentation at an academic conference. If you are a researcher, this is an important topic for you researcher because giving a good presentation of your work will raise interest … Continue reading →

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The top journals and conferences in data mining / data science

Posted on 2016-07-17 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

A key question for data mining and data science researchers is to know what are the top journals and conferences in the field, since it is always best to publish in the most popular journals or conferences. In this blog post, … Continue reading →

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An introduction to periodic pattern mining

Posted on 2016-07-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post I will give an introduction to the discovery of periodic patterns in data. Mining periodic patterns is an important data mining task as patterns may periodically appear in all kinds of data, and it may be desirable to find them … Continue reading →

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An Introduction to Sequence Prediction

Posted on 2016-06-23 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give an introduction to the task of sequence prediction,  a popular data mining/machine learning task, which consist of predicting the next symbol of a sequence of symbols. This task is important as it have many … Continue reading →

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Six important skills to become a succesful researcher

Posted on 2016-06-21 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will discuss how to become a good researcher and what are the most important skills that a researcher should have. This blog post is aimed at young Master degree students and Ph.D students, to provide some useful advice … Continue reading →

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Brief report about the ACM SAC 2016 conference

Posted on 2016-04-10 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Last week, I have attended the ACM SAC 2016 conference (31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing). It was held in Pisa, Italy from the 4th to the 8th April 2016. In this blog post, I will briefly discuss this conference. About … Continue reading →

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SPMF data mining library 0.98: new pattern visualization window

Posted on 2016-01-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This blog post is to let you know that I have just published a new version of the SPMF open-source Java data mining library (0.98) that offers a new window for visualizing the patterns found by data mining algorithms. This … Continue reading →

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