Prof. dr. Bart Goethals

Advanced Database Research and Modelling (ADReM)
University of Antwerp
Mathematics and Computer Science Department
Middelheimlaan 1
B-2020 Antwerpen
Belgium

Office phone: +32 3 265 33 09
Fax: +32 3 265 37 77
E-mail:

• Research interests: Data Mining, Databases
• PhD Students: Boris Cule, Calin Garboni, Wim Le Page, Michael Mampaey, Adriana Prado, Koen Smets TrungNghia Vu

• Internationalisation and Erasmus coordinator for Computer Science (more info for students)
• Chair of the exam committee for Computer Science
• Computer Science Alumni coordinator

• Action editor of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
• Associate editor of ACM SIGKDD Explorations
• Associate editor of Knowledge and Information Systems

• General Chair of the ECML PKDD Steering Committee

• Program Chair of ECML PKDD 2008 (in Antwerp)
• Program Chair of SIAM DM 2010

• Tutorial Chair of ACM SIGKDD 2009, SIAM DM 2009, ACM SIGKDD 2007
• Workshop and Tutorial Chair of ECML PKDD 2006.

• Workshop Program Chair of High Performance and Distributed Mining 2006 (HPDM), Open Source Data Mining 2005 (OSDM), Frequent Itemset Mining Implementations 2004 (FIMI), Knowledge Discovery in Inductive Databases 2004 (KDID), Frequent Itemset Mining Implementations 2003 (FIMI).
• Program Committee Member of: SIAM DM, ACM SIGKDD, IEEE ICDM, ECML PKDD, EDBT, PAKDD, ACM SAC DM, Benelearn, ECAI, ...

• "A new constraint for mining sets in sequences" (SDM 2009)
• "Sequence Mining Automata: a New Technique for Mining Frequent Sequences Under Regular Expressions" (ICDM 2008)
• "An Inductive Database Prototype Based on Virtual Mining Views" (demo, KDD 2008)
• "Mining Association Rules of Simple Conjunctive Queries" (SDM 2008)
• "Mining Views: Database Views for Data Mining" (demo paper, ICDE 2008)
• "Mining Frequent Items in a Stream Using Flexible Windows" (Intelligent Data Analysis Journal, 2008)
• less recent ...

Software on Frequent Itemset / Association Rule Mining