2026 Philippe Fournier-Viger: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Computer Science	62	2941	2856	401	398	451	13523

Overview

Philippe Fournier-Viger is affiliated with Shenzhen University in China and has a significant publication record in the field of computer science, with a focus on artificial intelligence and data mining. Their research work spans several subfields, including artificial intelligence, information systems, computational theory and mathematics, signal processing, and molecular biology.

The scientist has contributed notably to the study and development of data mining algorithms and applications, covering a range of topics such as rough sets and fuzzy logic, data management and algorithms, imbalanced data classification techniques, algorithms and data compression, advanced database systems and queries, and time series analysis and forecasting.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Philippe Fournier-Viger include Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, M. Saqib Nawaz, Yulin He, Youxi Wu, and Wensheng Gan.

Philippe Fournier-Viger's recent papers demonstrate an engagement with utility mining, artificial intelligence applications, and pattern mining techniques. Notable recent publications include:

"Using artificial intelligence techniques for COVID-19 genome analysis" (2021), published in Applied Intelligence
"Fast Utility Mining on Sequence Data" (2020), published in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
"A predictive GA-based model for closed high-utility itemset mining" (2021), published in Applied Soft Computing
"A guided FP-Growth algorithm for mining multitude-targeted item-sets and class association rules in imbalanced data" (2020), published in Information Sciences
"Mining High Utility Itemsets with Hill Climbing and Simulated Annealing" (2021), published in ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems

The scientist has contributed extensively to several publication venues over their career. The most frequent of these are Applied Intelligence and Information Sciences, each with 18 publications, arXiv (Cornell University) with 14, Knowledge-Based Systems with 10, and IEEE Access with 7 publications.

Philippe Fournier-Viger has authored multiple books published by Springer Science+Business Media. These works focus on artificial intelligence and data engineering topics, including:

"Advances and Trends in Artificial Intelligence. Theory and Practices in Artificial Intelligence" (2022)
"Trends in Artificial Intelligence Theory and Applications. Artificial Intelligence Practices" (2020)
"Advances in Model and Data Engineering in the Digitalization Era" (2022)
"Data Science and Machine Learning" (2023)
"Model and Data Engineering" (2022)

Best Publications

The SPMF Open-Source Data Mining Library Version 2

Philippe Fournier-Viger;Jerry Chun-Wei Lin;Antonio Gomariz;Ted Gueniche

558
Citations
SPMF: a Java open-source pattern mining library

Philippe Fournier-Viger;Antonio Gomariz;Ted Gueniche;Azadeh Soltani

545
Citations
FHM: Faster High-Utility Itemset Mining using Estimated Utility Co-occurrence Pruning

Philippe Fournier-Viger;Cheng Wei Wu;Souleymane Zida;Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng

515
Citations
A Survey of Utility-Oriented Pattern Mining

Wensheng Gan;Jerry Chun-Wei Lin;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Han-Chieh Chao

437
Citations
Binary dragonfly optimization for feature selection using time-varying transfer functions

Majdi M. Mafarja;Ibrahim Aljarah;Ali Asghar Heidari;Hossam Faris

400
Citations
A Survey of Parallel Sequential Pattern Mining

Wensheng Gan;Jerry Chun-Wei Lin;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Han-Chieh Chao

345
Citations
Fast Vertical Mining of Sequential Patterns Using Co-occurrence Information

Philippe Fournier-Viger;Antonio Gomariz;Manuel Campos;Rincy Thomas

317
Citations
Efficient Algorithms for Mining Top-K High Utility Itemsets

Vincent S. Tseng;Cheng-Wei Wu;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Philip S. Yu

283
Citations
A survey of itemset mining

Philippe Fournier‐Viger;Jerry Chun‐Wei Lin;Bay Vo;Bay Vo;Tin Truong Chi

273
Citations
EFIM: a fast and memory efficient algorithm for high-utility itemset mining

Souleymane Zida;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Jerry Chun-Wei Lin;Cheng-Wei Wu

235
Citations
Frequent itemset mining: A 25 years review

José María Luna;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Sebastián Ventura;Sebastián Ventura

219
Citations
EFIM: A highly efficient algorithm for high-utility itemset mining

Souleymane Zida;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Jerry Chun Wei Lin;Cheng Wei Wu

181
Citations
CMRules: Mining sequential rules common to several sequences

Philippe Fournier-Viger;Usef Faghihi;Roger Nkambou;Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

172
Citations
A survey of incremental high-utility itemset mining

Wensheng Gan;Jerry Chun-Wei Lin;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Han-Chieh Chao

157
Citations
HUOPM: High-Utility Occupancy Pattern Mining

Wensheng Gan;Jerry Chun-Wei Lin;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Han-Chieh Chao

152
Citations
Efficient Algorithms for Mining the Concise and Lossless Representation of High Utility Itemsets

Vincent S. Tseng;Cheng-Wei Wu;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Philip S. Yu

152
Citations
A binary PSO approach to mine high-utility itemsets

Jerry Chun-Wei Lin;Lu Yang;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Tzung-Pei Hong

144
Citations
RuleGrowth: mining sequential rules common to several sequences by pattern-growth

Philippe Fournier-Viger;Roger Nkambou;Vincent Shin-Mu Tseng

139
Citations
VMSP: Efficient vertical mining of maximal sequential patterns

Philippe Fournier-Viger;Cheng-Wei Wu;Antonio Gomariz;Vincent S. Tseng

124
Citations
Mining high-utility itemsets based on particle swarm optimization

Jerry Chun-Wei Lin;Lu Yang;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Jimmy Ming-Thai Wu

118
Citations
Efficient algorithms for mining high-utility itemsets in uncertain databases

Jerry Chun-Wei Lin;Wensheng Gan;Philippe Fournier-Viger;Tzung-Pei Hong

116
Citations
Fingerprint classification and identification algorithms for criminal investigation: A survey

Khin Nandar Win;Kenli Li;Jianguo Chen;Philippe Fournier Viger

109
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Tzung-Pei Hong National University of Kaohsiung

Wensheng Gan Jinan University

Vincent S. Tseng National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University

Han-Chieh Chao Fo Guang University

Youcef Djenouri University of South-Eastern Norway

Philip S. Yu University of Illinois at Chicago

Unil Yun Sejong University

Hamido Fujita University of Technology Malaysia

Miroslav Voznak VSB – Technical University of Ostrava

Bay Vo Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology

External Links

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