Hi, Thank you for educating the list. Though this is not exactly relevant to our subject matter actually.
Regards, --Anand On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:28 AM, <newtonha...@hushmail.com> wrote: > We are researchers from different parts of the world and conducted a study > on > the world’s biggest bogus computer science conference WORLDCOMP > ( http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 ) organized by Prof. Hamid > Arabnia > from University of Georgia, USA. > > > We submitted a fake paper to WORLDCOMP 2011 and again (the > same paper with a modified title) to WORLDCOMP 2012. This paper > had numerous fundamental mistakes. Sample statements from > that paper include: > > (1). Binary logic is fuzzy logic and vice versa > (2). Pascal developed fuzzy logic > (3). Object oriented languages do not exhibit any polymorphism or > inheritance > (4). TCP and IP are synonyms and are part of OSI model > (5). Distributed systems deal with only one computer > (6). Laptop is an example for a super computer > (7). Operating system is an example for computer hardware > > > Also, our paper did not express any conceptual meaning. However, it > was accepted both the times without any modifications (and without > any reviews) and we were invited to submit the final paper and a > payment of $500+ fee to present the paper. We decided to use the > fee for better purposes than making Prof. Hamid Arabnia (Chairman > of WORLDCOMP) rich. After that, we received few reminders from > WORLDCOMP to pay the fee but we never responded. > > > We MUST say that you should look at the above website if you have any > thoughts > to submit a paper to WORLDCOMP. DBLP and other indexing agencies > have stopped indexing WORLDCOMP’s proceedings since 2011 due to its > fakeness. > See http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icai/index.html for > of one of the > conferences of WORLDCOMP and notice that there is no listing after 2010. > See > http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf for comments from well-known > researchers > about WORLDCOMP. > > > The status of your WORLDCOMP papers can be changed from “scientific” > to “other” (i.e., junk or non-technical) at any time. See the comments > http://www.mail-archive.com/tccc@lists.cs.columbia.edu/msg05168.html > of a respected researcher on this. Better not to have a paper than > having it in WORLDCOMP and spoil the resume and peace of mind forever! > > > Our study revealed that WORLDCOMP is a money making business, > using University of Georgia mask, for Prof. Hamid Arabnia. He is throwing > out a small chunk of that money (around 20 dollars per paper published > in WORLDCOMP’s proceedings) to his puppet (Mr. Ashu Solo or A.M.G. Solo) > who publicizes WORLDCOMP and also defends it at various forums, using > fake/anonymous names. The puppet uses fake names and defames other > conferences > to divert traffic to WORLDCOMP. That is, the puppet does all his best > to get a maximum number of papers published at WORLDCOMP to get more > money into his (and Prof. Hamid Arabnia’s) pockets. > > > Monte Carlo Resort (the venue of WORLDCOMP until 2012) has refused to > provide the venue for WORLDCOMP’13 because of the fears of their image > being tarnished due to WORLDCOMP’s fraudulent activities. WORLDCOMP’13 > will be held at a different resort. > > > WORLDCOMP will not be held after 2013. > > > The paper submission deadline for WORLDCOMP’13 was March 18 and it is > extended to April 6 (it will be extended many times, as usual) but > still there are no committee members, no reviewers, and there is no > conference Chairman. The only contact details available on WORLDCOMP’s > website is just an email address! > > > What bothers us the most is that Prof. Hamid Arabnia never posted an > apology for the damage he has done to the research community. He is still > trying to defend WORLDCOMP. Let us make a direct request to him: publish > all reviews for all the papers (after blocking identifiable details) since > 2000 conference. Reveal the names and affiliations of all the reviewers > (for each year) and how many papers each reviewer had reviewed on average. > We also request him to look at the Open Challenge at > http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf > > > Sorry for posting to multiple lists. Spreading the word is the only way to > stop > this bogus conference. Please forward this message to other mailing lists > and people. > > > We are shocked with Prof. Hamid Arabnia and his puppet’s activities > http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com Search Google using the > keyword worldcomp fake for additional links. > > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
