The authors of the tutorial are, in alphabetical order, Bruno Crémilleux, Marc Plantevit and Arnaud Soulet. All have extensive experience in research on pattern mining and how to discover useful patterns.

• Bruno Crémilleux, Université de Caen, France. He received his PhD in computer science in 1991 from the University of Grenoble. He is professor in computer science since 2005 at the University of Caen-Normandy. His main research interests are pattern (set) discovery, Constraint Satisfaction Problems and data mining, preference queries and exploratory data mining. He was co-chair of several ECML/PKDD workshops.

Email: bruno.cremilleux@unicaen.fr Web: https://cremilleux.users.greyc.fr/ Marc Plantevit, Université de Lyon, France. He received his PhD in computer science in 2008 from the University of Montpellier. He has been an associate professor in the computer science department of the University of Lyon since 2009. His research interest include constraint-based pattern mining in general. Currently, he is very interested with sophisticate pattern domains (dynamic/ attributed graphs) and in incorporating background knowledge into pattern mining. Email: marc.plantevit@liris.cnrs.fr Web: http://liris.cnrs.fr/marc.plantevit

Arnaud Soulet, Université François Rabelais de Tours, France. He received his PhD in 2006 from the University of Caen. He is currently associate professor in computer science since 2007 at the University François Rabelais of Tours. He has an expertise in constraint-based pattern mining and involvement in the mining process like pattern mining techniques for preference elicitation. Email: arnaud.soulet@univ-tours.fr Web: http://www.info.univ-tours.fr/~soulet/