[BangPypers] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

[L Radhakrishna Rao]

I am shocked that University of Georgia have these sort of Professor. It is
considered as one of the best university in USA.


On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Anand B Pillai <abpillai at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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, <newtonhanes at 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.
> >
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