SPMF - Contributors

Contributors

Project leaders

Philippe Fournier-Viger (founder)
Jerry Chun-Wei Lin
Vincent S. Tseng

Algorithms

Philippe Fournier-Viger
Jerry Chun-Wei Lin, Ting Li, Lu Yang, Shi-Feng Ren, Jiexiong Zhang, et al: implementation of the following algorithms: HAUI-Miner, EHAUPM, HAUI-MMAU, FFI-Miner, MMFI-Miner, SFUPMiner, HUIM-BPSO, HUIM-BPSO-tree, HUIM_GA, HUIM-GA_Tree, IHAUPM, MEMU, SPHUIM, UHUSPM, and PHUSPM and others to be released
Antonio Gomariz Peñalver - implementations of the following algorithms: Clasp, CloSpan, Spade (regular and parallelized version), GSP, SPAM (alternative implementation) and PrefixSpan (alternative implementation), and other algorithms..
Vikram Goyal, Sonam Rathore, Ashish Sureka, Dhaval Patel, Siddharth Dawar - implementation of several algorithms: UFH, SkyMine, TUP, FHMDS, FHMDSNaive, HMiner, UP-Hist
Peng Yang - implementation of SPP-Growth, LPP-Growth, EMMA, MINEPI, MINEPI_PLUS, LPPM(Breadth), LPPM(depth), MRCPPS, HUE-SPAN and others
Ted Gueniche - implementations of sequence prediction models : CPT+, CPT, PPM, DG, AKOM, TDAG, LZ78
Chaomin Huang, Wei Song - implementations of the HUIF-GA, HUIF-PSO, HUIM-ABC, and HUIF-BA algorithms
Cheng-Wei Wu, Jiantao Wang, Yipei Lai et al. . - implementations of several algorithms and some code also published in UP-Miner, under the GPL license including CHUD, TKU, and US-SPAN.
Yimin Zhang - implementation of the FCHM_bond and FCHM_allconfidence algorithms with P. Fournier-Viger, implementations of the LHUI-Miner and PHUI-Miner algorithms, and provided several datasets with timestamps.
Azadeh Soltani - implementations of the following algorithms: MISApriori, CFPGrowth++, estDec
Prashant Barhate - implementations of the IHUP, UP-Growth and UPGrowth+ algorithms
Chao Cheng - implementations of gSPAN, TSeqMiner and TKG algorithms.
Jiaxuan Li - implementations of the CEPB, corCEPB, CEPN algorithms
Nader Aryabarzan - implementations of the dFIN, Neg-FIN and NAFCP algorithms
Souleymane Zida - implementation of the EFIM and HUSRM algorithms with P. Fournier-Viger
Zhihong Deng - implementations of the PrePost, PrePost+ and FIN algorithms
Fabio Fumarola, Pasqua Fabiana Lanotte, Michelangelo Ceci, Donato Malerba, Eliana Salvemini, Jiawei Han - implementations of the FAST and CloFAST algorithms
Zhitian Li - implementations of the MPFPS-DFS and MPFPS-BFS algorithms.
Xiang Li - translation of Opus-Miner to Java from original GPL code of G. Webb
Hoang Thanh Lam, Toon Calders, Fabian Moerchen, Dmitriy Fradkin - implementations of the GoKrimp and SeqKrimp algorithms
Alan Souza - implementations of the LCM algorithms
Sabarish Raghu - implementation of the text clusterer, and document classifier
Ahmed El-Serafy, Hazem El-Raffiee - implementation of the GCD algorithm
Ryan Panos - implementation of a version of CMDeo with the lift measure
Yuriy Guskov - the time series viewer of SPMF includes some code from the simple java plot viewer by Y. Guskov
Petijean et al. - code of Skopus, obtained under the GPL license
Peng et al. the code of mHUIMiner under GPL license obtained from the Github repository.
Sacha Servan-Schreiber - implementation of the Prosecco algorithm
Hoang Thi Dieu - improvements to the FHSAR implementation
Blake Johns, Ryan Benton - implementation of the RPGrowth algorithm
Lens Feremans, Cule Boris, Bart Goethals - original implementation of the QCSP algorithm

Code optimizations

Dan Cappucio - suggested an important optimization of the FPGrowth implementation

User interface

Hanane Amirat - provided feedback to improve the user interface design

Performance evaluation

Rincy N. Thomas - performance comparison of sequential pattern mining algorithms on various datasets, and found several errors on the website.

Datasets

Zhang Zhongjie - provided nine datasets with item labels in SPMF format, converted from the UCI repository (Skin, USCensus, PAMP, OnlineRetail, RecordLink, PowerC, SUSY, and kddcup99)
Ashwin Balani - provided MatLab code for dataset generation (available on the "datasets" page)
Saqib Nawaz - provided the ProofSequences dataset
Jiaxuan Li - provided datasets for cost/utility sequence mining

Installation and command line interface

Antonio Sergio Ando - feedback and some code for the command line interface, bug fix, and ANT script (to be included).

Bug reports, bug fixes and other contributions

Víctor Rodríguez-Fernández - reported bugs related to GoKrimp
Bao Vu - fixed a bug in the CHUI-Miner(max) implementation
Chaomin Huang - fixed deep code conversion bugs of the HUIM-GA.HUIM-GA-tree, HUIM-BPSO-tree, and HUIM-BPSO algorithms
Hung Nguyen - fixed a bug in the MinFHM algorithm
Matthieu Gousseff - reported a bug related to sequence identifiers in sequential pattern mining algorithms, and errors in the documentation
Luis Angerstein and Jan Wolter fixed a few bugs in the TDAG and LZ78 sequence prediction models
Konstantin Böttcher - reported a bug in FPGrowth
C. Sivamathi - reported a bug in TS-HOUN
Konstantin Böttcher - reported unused variables and condition in FPGrowth to improve the code
Rashmie Abeysinghe - reported a bug in AlgoArrays.Java
Benjamin Andow - reported a bug in the generation of closed association rule mining with FPClose algorithm
Bima Haryanto Putra - reported a bug in the TopKRules algorithm
Muhammad Yasir Chaudhry - reported a bug in the Apriori algorithm
Srikumar Krishnamoorthy - reported a problem in some utility mining datasets
Majdi Mafarja - reported a bug in the HUIM-bso algorithm
Tai Dinh - reported a bug in the USpan algorithm
Tin Truong Chi - reported a bug in the USpan algorithm
Tarannum Zaman - reported a bug in closed association rule mining with FPClose
Natalia Mord - reported a bug in the MaxSP algorithm
Andrey Shestakov - reported a bug in the command line interface
Antoine Pigeau - reported a bug in the VMSP algorithm
Himel Dev - reported a bug in the VMSP algorithm
Slimane Oulad Naoui - suggested to better handle incorrect algorithm parameters
Tin Truong Chui - fixed a bug in the ClaSP and CM-Clasp algorithms
Yimin Zhang - reported a problem in the FOSHU and TS-HOUN algorithms
Gehad Ahmed Soltan Abd-Elaleem - reported a bug in the FHSAR
Preethy Varma - reported a bug in ClaSP and CM-Clasp algorithms
Mike Rostermund - reported a problem in the output of SPAM based algorithms
Jaroslav Fowkes and Thomas Christie - reported a bug in the GoKrimp implementation
Jamshi Nazeer - reported a bug in the FPClose implementation
Insu Yun - reported a bug in the FPClose implementation
Dharmen Punjani - reported a bug in the text clusterer
Martin Böckle - reported a bug in the GUI of SPMF
Pierre-Emmanuel Leroy - reported a bug in the Cori algorithm
Masanori Akiyoshi- reported a bug in the FPGrowth algorithm
Asmaa - reported a bug in the Zart algorithm
Choong Shin Siang and Wong Li Pei - reported a bug on the use of the "maxgap" constraint
Ryan G. Benton - reported and fixed a bug in the Itemset-Tree and Memory Efficient Itemset-Tree
G. Gutierrez - reported a bug about how ID3 trees are printed to console
Mehran Memon - reported a bug in the BIDE+ implementation
Nahumi - reported a bug for running the "Fournier08-Closed+time" algorithm using the GUI
Wen Zhang - reported bugs: a bug that was generating headless exceptions, and a bug about command line arguments
Abdalghani Abujabal - reported bugs/improvement for the ECLAT
C. Albert Thompson - reported a bug in association rule generation with CFPGrowth, and a bug in TNS/TopSeqRules
Manperta Negara Situmorang - reported a bug in association rule generation with CFPGrowth
Michael Witbrock - reported an issue with character encoding of source code files
Cheng Zhou - reported inconsistencies in sequential pattern mining algorithms source code
Vathsala.H - reported a bug in the ID3 implementation
Rai. A. - reported a bug in using the hierarchical clustering algorithm with the GUI
Arina Pramudita - reported some minsup rounding inconsistencies between some sequential pattern mining algorithms
Radhika Loombas - reported duplicated variables and unreachable code in FPGrowth
Srinivas K. - bug report for the sequence database generator and for the Charm algorithm
Faisal Feroz - bug report for the AbstractOrderedItemset and ItemsetTree classes
Peter Toth - bug report for association rule mining with FPGrowth, and bug report for TNS / TopSeqRules
saiph..@... - reported a bug in the GUI
Antonio Sergio Ando - reported a bug in FHSAR
Said Hamani - reported a bug in the INDIRECT
Faezeh Jafari - reported a bug in Cluster.java
Dvijesh Bhatt - reported a bug in SPAM
shouwangji@... reported unused variables and other minor problems in PrefixSpan
Brock - reported a bug in BIDE +
G. Bruno - reported bugs in BIDE+ and FPGrowth
E. Schubert - reported a bug in DBScan
A. Pardeshi - reported a bug in ECLAT / CHARM
Abdel Naser Pouamoun - reported a bug in the Cluster class
Minh Pham - reported a bug in ERMiner
Jiaxing Mai - reported various errors in the documentation and code.

Antonio Gomariz Peñalver and Philippe Fournier-Viger