This call is a scam. The conference is not a legit academic event but aims at making money. It is a sad truth that there is an increasingly large amount of (more or less) academic conference spam these days. IEEE has been criticized for sponsoring events without sufficient quality control [1], and I tend to ignore all events that advertise in its name. Some typical signs of scam conferences:
* Keywords: "cyber", "world", "global", "multiconference", as well as weird keyword combinations and neologisms ("peacefare"?!) * claimed(?) IEEE sponsoring * registration fees per accepted paper instead of per participant ("pay to publish"), see e.g. [2]; this is probably the one 100% sure sign of a fake conference; I have never seen any legit event doing this * non-committing choice of words ("potential inclusion to IEEE Xplore", possible keynote speakers etc.) * lack of (trustworthy) names and institutions related to the event (that's hard to judge if you are not in a relevant research community); in some cases known names may be abused or suggested to cause confusion
There are more hints on recognizing scam conferences and journals online, e.g. at [3].
In general, I am in favour of filtering all academic calls for papers from this list. Even if the event is legit and has a relevant topic, this is not a forum to ask for academic contributions; there are more than enough channels these days to advertise events. Calls for participations in community events are a different story.
Markus
[1] http://blog.lib.umn.edu/denis036/thisweekinevolution/2011/07/would_ieee_real... [2] http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/cybersec2014/registration/ [3] http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Teaching/learning/junk.conferences.html
On 16/01/14 08:44, Sven Manguard wrote:
I am beginning to get tired of these types of solicitations, as they seem to be coming in regularly, and more often than not, have little to do with Wikidata.
Do people on this list find them useful? If so, is this the most appropriate list? If not, is there any interest in prohibiting posts like this?
Sven
On Jan 16, 2014 2:38 AM, "Liezelle Ann Canadilla" <liezelle@sdiwc.info mailto:liezelle@sdiwc.info> wrote:
All the registered papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential inclusion to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. TITLE: The Third International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare, and Digital Forensic (CyberSec2014) EVENT VENUE: Lebanese University, Lebanon CONFERENCE DATES: Apr. 29 – May 1, 2014 EVENT URL: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/cybersec2014/ OBJECTIVE: To provide a medium for professionals, engineers, academicians, scientists, and researchers from over the world to present the result of their research activities in the field of Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology. CyberSec2014 provides opportunities for the delegates to share the knowledge, ideas, innovations and problem solving techniques. Submitted papers will be reviewed by the technical program committee of the conference. KEYWORDS: Cyber Security, Digital Forensics, Information Assurance and Security Management, Cyber Peacefare and Physical Security, and many more... SUBMISSION URL: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2014/cybersec2014/openconf/openconf.php FIRST SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 29, 2014 CONTACT EMAIL: cyb2014@sdiwc.net <mailto:cyb2014@sdiwc.net> _______________________________________________ Wikidata-l mailing list Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org <mailto:Wikidata-l@lists.wikimedia.org> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata-l
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