[Wikimedia-l] Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science

Fri Apr 12 17:51:38 UTC 2013

haha, that was awesome Oliver!

On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Oliver Keyes <okeyes at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> We are Wikimedians from different parts of the world and conducted a study
> on the world's longest piece of spammed mailing list notification, Biggest
> Fake Conference in Computer Science, organised by georgepeter at hushmail.com.
>
> We started a mailing list in April 2004, and again in April 2012, that had
> numerous descriptors of its purpose. Sample descriptors include:
>
> (1) that this is a "Discussion list for the Wikimedia community and the
> larger network of organizations (Wikimedia Foundation, chapter
> organizations, affiliates, partners) supporting its work."
> (2) that the examples given of possible discussion topics do not, at any
> point, include Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science
> (3) that "Participants are asked to remain civil and stay on topic"
>
> Our mailing list descriptor contained many, many examples of contextual
> meaning. Despite this, the world's longest piece of spammed mailing list
> notification, Biggest Fake Conference in Computer Science, was submitted
> without any modifications (and without the sender at any point realising he
> was being improper or indecorous).
>
> We MUST say that you should look at the above mail if you want an example
> of how not to send warnings out. Our study revealed that such a mail is
> without a doubt a ludicrous way to do so that carries a higher chance of
> annoying and infuriating mailing list recipients plagued by completely
> off-topic emails, despite multiple notes on the page a user must go to to
> sign up for the mailing list that reveal the list's topics, restrictions,
> and desire to remain within those topics.
>
> Sorry for not including an apology; the author of this happens to believe
> that apologies for posting to multiple lists are not so much apologies for
> behaviour as they are admissions that the sender /knows/ that what they're
> doing is wrong, but plans to do it anyway because *thumbs nose*.
>
> On 12 April 2013 18:34, <georgepeter 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. If WORLDCOMP is not fake then why did DBLP suddenly
>> stopped
>> listing the proceedings after?
>>
>>
>> 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. He also makes anonymous phone calls and
>> threatens the critiques of WORLDCOMP (see Item 7 in Section 5 of
>> http://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf ).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 was
>> extended to April 6 and now it is extended to April 20 (it may be extended
>> again) 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! Prof. Hamid Arabnia expends the deadline
>> to get more papers (means, more registration fee into his pocket!).
>>
>>
>> Let us make a direct request to Prof. Hamid arabnia: 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
>> https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1
>>
>>
>> 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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