Man - take it to snopes... have you really been obsessing about this since 2010?? We completely absolve you of your 'professional obligation' to inform... don't come back without at least hinting at Linux on z. Go in peace and sin no more...
Scott Rohling On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 11:12 AM, washington Keller < [email protected]> wrote: > I graduated from University of Florida (UFL) and am currently > running a computer firm in Florida. I have attended WORLDCOMP > conference (see http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 for > details) in 2010. Except for few keynote speeches and > presentations, the conference was very disappointing due to a > large number of poor quality papers and cancellation of some > sessions. I was instantly suspicious of this conference. > > > Me and my friends started a study on WORLDCOMP. > 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 website > http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 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. > > > The status of your WORLDCOMP papers can be changed from “scientific” > to “other” (i.e., junk or non-technical) at anytime. See the comments > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/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 who publicizes WORLDCOMP > and also defends it at various forums, using fake/anonymous names. > The puppet uses fake names and defames other conferences/people 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 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 > > > We think that it is our professional obligation to spread this message to > alert the computer science community. 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 > keywords “worldcomp, fake” for additional links. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
