Category Archives: Utility Mining

The Upcoming 3rd Utility Mining and Learning Workshop (UDML 2020!) at IEEE ICDM 2020

Posted on 2020-09-17 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I just want to talk a little bit about the upcoming 3rd UDML 2020 workshop on utility mining and learning that I am co-organizing at the IEEE ICDM 2020 conference. This workshop was previously held at KDD 2018 and … Continue reading →

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UDML 2020 – Utility Driven Mining and Learning Workshop

Posted on 2020-04-01 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi all, This is to let you know the good news that the UDML workshop on Utility Driven Mining and Learning will be back this year, at IEEE ICDM 2020, for the third edition (UDML 2020). This is a good venue to submit your papers about data mining and machine … Continue reading →

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(video) Mining Cost-Effective Patterns

Posted on 2020-03-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will share another talk that I have recorded recently. This time, I will explain a new paper from my team about discovering cost-effective patterns using some algorithms called CEPB and CEPN. Mining cost-effective patterns is a new topic in pattern mining … Continue reading →

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Upcoming book: High Utility Itemset Mining: Theory, Algorithms and Applications

Posted on 2018-09-20 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I am happy to announce that the draft of the book about high utility pattern mining has been finalized and submitted to the publisher (Springer). It should thus be published in the very near future. The book contains 12 chapters written by several top researchers from … 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 High-Utility Itemset Mining

Posted on 2015-04-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give an introduction about a popular problem in data mining, which is called “high-utility itemset mining” or more generally utility mining. I  will give an overview of this problem, explains why it is interesting, and provide source code of … Continue reading →

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