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Brief report about ICSI 2021 (12th Int. Conference on Swarm Intelligence)

Posted on 2021-07-15 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about attending the 12th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence (ICSI 2021). The ICSI conference is a relatively young conference about swarm intelligence, metaheuristics and related topics and applications. This year, ICSI 2021 is held in … Continue reading →

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Brief report about ICIVIS 2021 (Int. Conference on Image, Vision and Intelligent system)

Posted on 2021-06-19 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

This week-end, I have attended the International Conference on Image, Vision and Intelligent system from 18 to 20 June 2021 in Changsha city, China. It is a medium-sized conference (about 100 participants) but It is well-organized, and there was many … Continue reading →

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UDML 2021 @ ICDM 2021

Posted on 2021-04-15 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Hi all, This is to let you know that the UDML workshop on utility driven mining and learning is back again this year at ICDM 2021, for the fourth edition. The topic of this workshop is the concept of utility … Continue reading →

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MLiSE 2021 @ PKDD 2021 – a new workshop!

Posted on 2021-04-14 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

I am glad to announce that I am co-organizing a new workshop called MLiSE 2021 (1st international workshop on Machine Learning in Software Engineering), held in conjunction with the ECML PKDD 2021 conference. Briefly, the aim of this workshop is … Continue reading →

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Mining Episode Rules (video)

Posted on 2021-04-11 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will share the video of our most recent data mining paper presented last week at ACIIDS 2021. It is about a new algorithm named POERM for about analyzing sequences of events or symbols. The algorithm will find rules … Continue reading →

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A Brief Report about ACIIDS 2021 (13th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems)

Posted on 2021-04-06 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will give a brief report about the ACIIDS 2021 conference, that I am attending from April 7–10, 2021. What is ACIIDS? ACIIDS is an international conference focusing on intelligent information and database systems. The conference … Continue reading →

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The Controversy around Extreme Learning Machines (ELM) and related models

Posted on 2021-01-01 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

Today, I will talk about an interesting topic in academia which is the controversy around ELM (Extreme Learning Machine) and its origins. This has been a hot topic of discussion in the field of machine learning for more than a … Continue reading →

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The importance of explainable data science and machine learning models

Posted on 2020-12-09 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about an important concept, which is often overlooked in data mining and machine learning: explainability. To discuss this topic, it is necessary to first remember what is the goal of data mining and machine learning. The goal of data mining is … Continue reading →

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Brief Report about IEEE ICDM 2020

Posted on 2020-11-18 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about the IEEE ICDM 2020 conference that I have attended virtually. The conference was supposed to be held in Italy but due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was held online. About the ICDM … Continue reading →

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How to find a good thesis topic in Machine Learning?

Posted on 2020-11-04 by Philippe Fournier-Viger

In this blog post, I will talk about how to find a good thesis topic on machine learning. This is an important question for many students that are required to select a topic for their research and want to work … Continue reading →

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