Data mining scenarios for the discovery of subtypes and the comparison of algorithms
Colas, F.P.R.
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Colas, F. P. R. (2009, March 4). Data mining scenarios for the discovery of subtypes and the comparison of algorithms. Retrieved from
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Acknowledgements
Between my colleagues, because of their constant support over the first two years of my PhD, I am particularly grateful to my two Czech friends, Pavel Pacl´ık and Professor Pavel Brazdil.
Since they contributed so much to my PhD, I am also very thankful to Ingrid Meulenbelt, Jeanine Houwing-Duistermaat and Eline Slagboom, Stephanie van Rooden, Martine Visser, Han Marinus and Bob van Hilten, and more recently Andreas Bender. What a challenge to work with you all!
My former colleagues of the LIAAD in Porto also played a very important role as, during my MSc thesis, I adapted to their way of conducting research.
In the last years, each time I visited them, they left me with a unique feeling of availability and friendliness.
Other than my project colleagues, I wish to thank Wim Aspers and Thijs Dijk for counselling, chatting and arranging daily things at the LIACS. I also shared office with Yanju Zhang over the last two years and however distant our respective countries, I did much appreciate the understanding which underlied our regular talks, especially those not related to our jobs. I further enjoyed the cultural diversity at the LIACS having neighbour colleagues from the Netherlands, Morocco, China, Russia, Israel, Italy, etc.
Job accounting for 50% to my coming to the Netherlands, I want to thank those who, by their teaching, contributed to a today being which I feel more confortable with than before. Thanks to Ren´e and Jelena, Aharona and Pauline, Peter, Natalia.
Already unrooted for a couple of years before starting my PhD and living all that time with a single backpack, I went with some relief for a few years to the Netherlands. Being relatively close to my motherland, I enjoyed returning to my family who, from my parents to my grandma’s, from my sister to my cousins and
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from my uncles to my nephews, has been so welcoming and caring each time that I visited them. What a family, merci.
Fabrice, July-November 2008.
