NET DRIVER

New Frauds from IEEE at India: Fake IEEE Projects

2011-11-22T04:48:00.001-08:00

Fake IEEE Projects - Yamee Cluster, Vellalar Street, Adambakkam,Chennai-88

Dear All, Please do not buy any IEEE projects from Yamee Cluster,Chennai. We students from Madurai, asked for latest IEEE-2011 projects ......they charged us Rs.4000 per student and gave one IEEE project stating it as the latest IEEE 2011 project. After few months we got to know from our friends, what they gave us was a 2008 IEEE project. They generally rename/modify the 2008/2009 IEEE projects and sell it as 2011 IEEE projects in Chennai. They do not provide a big technical support too.When we questioned about this, they are not even responding to our calls. After getting the money from us, they cheated us nicely. So students, please don't get cheated from this project center - YameeCluster . One of the worst fake company who sells IEEE projects at very high cost and gives the fake IEEE-2011 projects. Please do not get cheated from this Yamee cluster -the fraud.

See http://www.consumercomplaints.in/complaints/fake-ieee-projects-yamee-clusterorg-tamil-nadu-c665090.html

The following IEEE Conference has accepted several SCIgen (fake) papers. The organisers sent letter of acceptance for the several fake (SCIgen) papers

2011-07-05T04:49:00.000-07:00

The following IEEE Conference has accepted several SCIgen (fake) papers.
The organisers sent letter of acceptance for the several fake (SCIgen) papers
and now they try to claim that they did not send any letter of acceptance.
One more fraud from the criminal IEEE

Subject: Important Information Regarding WCCI 2012
From: j.e.snyder@ieee.org
To: cis-members@ieee.org
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 22:04:30 -0400
X-Mailer: Lotus Domino Web Server Release 8.0.2FP1 HF783 June 21, 2010
X-MIMETrack: Serialize by HTTP Server on Quicksilver/US/IEEE(Release 8.0.2FP1
HF783|June 21, 2010) at 06/30/2011 10:04:30 PM,
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HF783|June 21, 2010) at 06/30/2011 10:04:30 PM,
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08, 2009) at 06/30/2011 09:53:54 PM,
Serialize by Router on Robin/US/IEEE(Release 8.0.2FP3|October 08,
2009) at 06/30/2011 09:53:56 PM,
Serialize complete at 06/30/2011 09:53:56 PM
Sender: cis-members@ieee.org
List-Help: < http://listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?LIST=CIS-MEMBERS>,
< mailto:LISTSERV@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG?body=INFO%20CIS-MEMBERS>
List-Unsubscribe: < mailto:CIS-MEMBERS-unsubscribe-request@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG>
List-Subscribe: < mailto:CIS-MEMBERS-subscribe-request@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG>
List-Owner: < mailto:CIS-MEMBERS-request@LISTSERV.IEEE.ORG>

***This message is sent on behalf of the IEEE CIS President, Gary Yen and the IEEE CIS VP-Conferences, Gary Fogel***
Dear IEEE CIS member,

We have noticed a recent increase in emails that come from an outside
source not affiliated with IEEE WCCI 2012 regarding this conference.

Should you happen to receive any email regarding our conferences or other
activities from a non-IEEE approved source, please ignore them and forward
the information to our attention through Jo-Ellen Snyder at
j.e.snyder@ieee.org.

Please note that the conference website for IEEE WCCI 2012 remains:
www.ieee-wcci2012.org

We look forward to seeing you in Brisbane next year!

Sincerely,

Gary Yen, IEEE CIS President
Gary Fogel, IEEE CIS VP Conferences

Best regards,

Jo-Ellen

IEEE uses again spam techniques to promote its fake conferences

2011-05-03T01:21:00.000-07:00

IEEE uses again spam techniques to promote its fake conferences.
A colleague reported us this Spam from IEEE well known for its bogus conferences.
The NETDRIVER has revealed that the IEEE is fake and bogus and sells its name to low-quality and low-level "professors" just for some % on the conference profit.
IEEE also sells its lists of its members to the conference organizers that bomb us
with thousand of SPAM email everyday. IEEE is a real source of Scam Conferences. The voice of NETDRIVER is here and we thanks Google Machine that has us very high when
somebody googles: IEEE Fake or IEEE Junk or IEEE Scam or IEEE Spam or IEEE Bogus etc...

So, this was the Spam that we received from IEEE. Send them now SCIgen Fake Papers. They will approve them. It is funny really, but more than 30 IEEE papers have accepted and published in their Proceedings SCIgen Fake Papers.

from neta@papercall.org
reply-to "Mr. Liu"
date 3 May 2011 00:25
subject Dear call for paper

Dear

Respect of your contribution in Environment and New Energy, we cordially invite you to attend and publish your research on the International workshop on Environment ,New Energy Techniques and Applications (NETA2011 ),which is a workshop of ICECE2011,will be held on Sep,16-18, 2011 in Yichang, China. All accepted conference papers will be published by IEEE, included in IEEE eXplore, and then be indexed by EI Compendex. Some excellent papers will be selected and send to The Computer Journal(SCI indexed) or other open access international journal for free. For more information,Please visit: http://www.icecemeeting.org/2011/neta

The ICECE2011 can be found in IEEE Conference List. Please click here for more details. The conference ID is 17643.
IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1173J-DVD ISBN:978-1-4244-8164-4
IEEE Catalog Number: CFP1173J-PRT ISBN:978-1-4244-8163-7
All papers on The 1st International Conference on Electrical and Control Engineering (ICECE2010) have been indexed by EI Compendex.

Topics includes but not limited to:
Wind Energy
Solar Energy
Nuclear Energy
Hydropower
Geothermal Energy
Ocean Energy
Tidal Power
Energy and Sustainable Development
Environment and Sustainable Development

Submission Deadline:July 5, 2011

Notes:
There are free printed and CD proceedings for authors.
There is a free one-day tour in Three Gorges after the conference for all participants.
We are looking forward to seeing you in Yichang, China!
Best regards,
Contact Information
Mr.Liu
The Organizing Committee of NETA2011
wneta2011@126.com

Fake IEEE Multiconference

2010-08-31T09:58:00.000-07:00

From the site: http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2010/08/fake-ieee-multiconference-because-fake.html

Fake IEEE Multiconference because a) fake Sub-conferences b) massive attacks in our computers by SPAM c) non review d) many bogus commercial profs

Fake IEEE Multiconference because a) fake Sub-conferences b) massive attacks in our computers by SPAM c) non review d) many bogus commercial profs
Here is a typical example of a Fake IEEE Multiconference
because

a) it is composed by numerous fake Sub-conferences
b) massive attacks in our computers by SPAM
c) non review or quite funny review (like add 2 more references and improve your english ... and pay our high registration fees of course )
d) many bogus commercial professors like Vincenzo Piuri a championer of Spam for IEEE Conferences. We cannot say that all the conferences of Vincenzo Piuri are bogus but many people that sent papers to them had never received a single line of reviewers' comments.
Vincenzo Piuri was a frequent IEEE (fake?) conferences organizer, for this reason, IEEE elevated him in IEEE Fellow lavel.

Enjoy the IEEE Spam for this Bogus Multiconference

IEEE SSCI2011 Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence

Paris (France), April 11-15, 2011
http://www.ieee-ssci.org/

General Chair: Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, LIP6, CNRS-University P. et M. Curie, Paris, France
Honorary chair: Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
Finance Chair: Piero Bonissone, General Electrics, USA
Local Arrangement Chair: Maria Rifqi, LIP6, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France
Web Master: Christophe Marsala, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Publication Chair: Sylvie Galichet, Université de Savoie, France
Publicity Co-chairs: Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan / Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium / Slawo Wesolkowski, DRDC, Canada
Tutorial, Keynote and Panel Co-chairs: Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus / Ali M.S. Zalzala, Hikma Group Limited, Dubai, UAE
Secretary: Adrien Revault d'Allonnes, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Description:
This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of Computational Intelligence. With its hosting of over thirty technical meetings in one location, it is bound to attract lead researchers, professionals and students from around the world. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the 2011 edition follows in the footsteps of the SSCI 2007 meetings held in Honolulu and of the SSCI 2009 series held in Nashville. The event will take place in the magic town of Paris.

Important dates:
Paper Submission Due: October 31, 2010
Notification to Authors: December 15, 2010
Camera-Ready Papers Due: January 15, 2011

================================================================================
List of Symposia and Workshops

* ADPRL 2011 Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
* CCMB 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain.
* CIASG 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid
* CIBCB 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
* CIBIM 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management
* CICA 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation
* CICS 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security
* CIDM 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining
* CIDUE 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
* CIFEr 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics
* CII 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Industry
* CIMR 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Mobile Robots: Air-, Land-, and Sea-Based
* CIMSIVP 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia, Signal and Vision Processing
* CISched 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling
* CISDA 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications
* CIVI 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence
* CIVTS 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems
* CompSens 2011 Workshop on Merging Fields of Computational Intelligence and Sensor Technology
* EAIS 2011 Workshop on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems
* FOCI 2011 Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence
* GEFS2011 International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
* HIMA 2011 Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications
* IA 2011 Symposium on Intelligent Agents
* IEEE ALIFE 2011 Symposium on Artificial Life
* MC 2011 Symposium on Memetic Computing
* MCDM 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making
* OC 2011 Workshop on Organic Computing RiiSS 2011 Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space
* SDE 2011 Symposium on Differential Evolution
* SIS 2011 Symposium on Swarm Intelligence
* T2FUZZ011 Symposium on Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems
* WACI 2011 Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence

Reference
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2010/08/fake-ieee-multiconference-because-fake.html

it is yet another IEEE fake conference

2010-08-25T03:13:00.000-07:00

A new bogus multiconference from IEEE. Do not go to these fake IEEE Conferences. Be careful. The Scientific Credibility is ZERO

Avoid Fake IEEE. Do you think that we are not right when we try to reveal the fake conferences (mainly from IEEE)? See this web page. No need to comme

2010-08-25T02:57:00.000-07:00

Do you think that we are not right when we try to reveal the fake conferences (mainly from IEEE)? See this web page. No need to comment. Having this web site
http://www.grs-association.org/icrs2010/contact.htm
it is the same if these people would say "Attention: We are a fake conference organization in collaboration with IEEE. Come and Enjoy our FAKE Conference that will publish its proceedings in IEEE"

http://www.grs-association.org/icrs2010/contact.htm

Read this web page http://www.grs-association.org/

No organization grs-association exists!

In fact the front page http://www.grs-association.org is closed
Do you wander why?
See also their Spam Email (Fake conferences without Spam cannot exist)
The following equivalency could be a Theorem in a paper that can easily be accepted,
can easily presented and easily accepted in this kind of "conferences"

THEOREM:
Junk (or Spam or Bogus) conference <===> Publication in IEEE Xplore <===> SPAM

This is their typical Spam (some fonts in chinese)

ICRS2010 and ICMMA2011 Call for Paper

2010 International Conference on Remote Sensing (ICRS 2010) EI Compendex and ISTP
2010年国际遥感大会（ICRS 2010）EI&ISTP检索
Hangzhou, China, October 5-6,2010
中国·杭州，2010年10月5日~6日
Website会议网站： http://www.grs-association.org/icrs2010/

The objective of ICRS 2010 is to provide a forum for researchers, educators, engineers, and government officials involved in the general areas of on Remote Sensing .
All Accepted Papers will be published by IEEE , Which will be indexed by EI Compendex and ISTP.
所有被本次会议由IEEE出版，凡被大会录用的文章都将被EI和ISTP收录。

ICRS 2010 has enter IEEE Conference Search：http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/index.html
ICRS 2010 已进入IEEE会议列表，查询链接：http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/index.html
本会议已进入维普资讯和科学网会议列表：
http://expo.cqvip.com/meet_detail.asp?id=143
http://meeting.sciencenet.cn/cinfo.aspx?cid=695

TOPICS：
Submissions of papers describing original work in, but not limited to, the following topics are enthusiastically encouraged.
• Satellite Remote Sensing System
• Airborne Remote Sensing System
• UAV/UAS Remote Sensing System
• Hyperspectral Sensing
• Microwave Sensors/SAR / InSAR/ D-InSAR
• Laser Sensors/LIDAR
• Digital Camera
• Global Change
• Water Quality & Water Resources
• Agriculture & Soil
• Vegetation & Crops
• Forest Resources
• Ecology, Environment & Carbon Cycle
• Land Use/Land Cover
• Geology / Geography/Geomorphology
• Geo-hazards/Disasters
• Mountain Environment and Mapping
• Coastal Zone Monitoring
• Atmosphere/Oceanography
• Archaeology
• Urban Change/Monitoring
• High Resolution Satellite Mapping
• Algorithm and Modeling
• DEM/3D Generation
• Change Detection
• Feature Extraction
• Automatic /Intelligent Classification
• Hyperspectral/SAR Data Processing
• High Resolution Data Processing
• Data Fusion and Data Minin
• Spatial Database
• GIS Decision Support and Models
• Visualization /VR
• GIS Application in Resource Management
• GPS & Photogrammetry
• Global Satellite Navigational Systems
• GPS Application
• Web GIS / Mobile Mapping
• RS/ GIS/ GPS Integrated and Applications
• Digital Photogrammetry
• Geospatial Technology for Energy, Health, Pollution, etc
• Digital Earth
• Space Environment / Deep Space Exploration
• Education & Training

è 投稿要求：中英文稿件均可，但是中文稿件必须同时有中英文题目、中英文摘要和中英文参考文献。（具体格式模板见附件）
Paper Format is in the attachment.

è Submission system is open! http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icrs2010
投稿系统： http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icrs2010

è Submission Date: September 15, 2010
截稿时间： 2010年9月15日

Contact: icrs2010reg@gmail.com Miss Li: (86)18802716682 Miss Jia: (86)18802710080
QQ咨询群：118120329

2011 International Conference on Materials, Mechatronics and Automation (ICMMA 2011) EI Compendex
2011 年材料、机电一体化、自动化国际学术研讨会(EI 检索)
Australia, Melbourne, 15-16 January, 2011
2011年1月15-16日，澳大利亚·墨尔本
Website会议网站：http://www.ieee-peits.cn/icmma2011

ICMMA 2011 will be published by Key Engineering Materials Journal, which will be indexed by EI Compendex.
我们将出版400 篇在 Key Engineering Materials 期刊，先投先审先录用原则，录用了400 篇就不再接收论文。

本会议已进入维普资讯、中国知网CNKI及科学网会议列表：
http://expo.cqvip.com/meet_detail.asp?id=142
http://icmma2011.conf.cnki.net/WebSite/index.aspx?conferenceID=13af5545-3ed3-4d4b-819f-02c4b6abc3b5
http://meeting.sciencenet.cn/cinfo.aspx?cid=651

Key Engineering Materials Indexed by Elsevier: SCOPUS www.scopus.com and Ei Compendex (CPX) www.ei.org/. Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) www.csa.com, Chemical Abstracts (CA) www.cas.org, Google and Google Scholar google.com, ISI (ISTP, CPCI, Web of Science) www.isinet.com, Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) www.iee.org, etc.

ICMMA 2011 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. Papers should not exceed 6 pages of text using Word Template. All submitted papers (in PDF) should be written in English. Each paper will be reviewed by 2-3 reviewers. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register the work.

Topics:
The topics of interest include, but not limited to the following:
l Intelligent mechatronics, robotics, biomimetics, automation, control systems,opto-electronic elements and Materials, laser technology and laser processing
l Elements, structures, mechanisms, and applications of micro and nano systems
l Teleoperation, telerobotics, haptics, and teleoperated semi-autonomous systems
l Sensor design, multi-sensor data fusion algorithms and wireless sensor
l networks
l Biomedical and rehabilitation engineering, prosthetics and artificial organs
l Control system modeling and simulation techniques and methodologies
l AI, intelligent control, neuro-control, fuzzy control and their applications
l Industrial automation, process control, manufacturing process and automation.

è Paper Submission System 投稿系统:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icmma2011
Paper Format See 格式模板见: http://www.ieee-peits.cn/icmma2011/

è Important Date: October 1, 2010, Full papers and organized session proposals
截稿时间：2010年10月1日截稿

è Contact: icmma2011@gmail.com Miss Li: (86)18802716682 Miss Jia: (86) 18802710080
QQ咨询群：121101079
注意：ICMMA2011仅接收英文投稿
...

Apologies for cross-postings? or apologies for organizing fake conferences? or even Apologies for accepting SCIgen (software generated silly texts)

2010-08-25T02:37:00.000-07:00

Apologies for cross-postings? or apologies for organizing fake conferences? or even Apologies for accepting SCIgen (software generated silly texts)
These are the IADIS notoriously bogus conferences. Avoid them and reject academic CVs of candidates containing IADIS Publications and IADIS fake conferences.
Do not refund registration fees of participants in IADIS junk conference. They spam us everyday.

Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (2^nd call): 6 September 2010 --

IADIS International Conference on Internet Technologies & Society

29, 30 November and 1 December 2010 – Perth, Australia

(http://www.its-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed)

Associate Professor Helen Armstrong, School of Information Systems, Curtin University, Australia

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS Internet Technologies & Society 2010 Conference (ITS 2010) aims to address the main issues of concern within WWW/Internet as well as to assess the influence of Internet in the Information Society.

Broad areas of interest are Internet Technologies, Information Management, e-Society and Digital Divide, e-Business / e-Commerce, e-Learning, New Media and e-Society, Digital Services in e-Society, e-Government / e-Governance and e-Health. These broad areas are divided into more detailed areas (see below). However innovative contributes that do not fit into these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (online accessible).
The authors of the best papers will be invited to provide revised and expanded versions in English to be considered for publication in the Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research http://www.jtaer.com/ (ISSN 0718–1876).

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations, Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

Internet Technologies
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Intelligent Agents
- Intelligent Systems
- IS Security Issues
- Mobile Applications
- Multimedia Applications
- e-Payment Systems
- Protocols and Standards
- Semantic Web and XML
- Services, Architectures and Web Development
- Software Requirements and Web Architectures
- Storage Issues
- Strategies and Tendencies
- System Architectures
- Telework Technologies
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Virtual Reality
- Web 2.0 technologies
- Social Networking and Marketing
- Wireless Communications

Information Management
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Content Development
- Cyber law and Intellectual Property
- Data Mining
- e-Publishing and Digital Libraries
- Human Computer Interaction and Usability
- Information Search and Retrieval
- Knowledge Management
- Policy Issues
- Privacy Issues
- Social and Organizational Aspects
- Virtual Communities
- Internet and Disability
- Internet and Aging Population

e-Society and Digital Divide
- Social Integration
- Social Bookmarking
- Social Software
- e-Democracy
- Social Integration

e-Business / e-Commerce
- Business Ontologies and Models
- Digital Goods and Services
- e-Business Models
- e-Commerce Application Fields
- e-Commerce Economics
- e-Commerce Services
- Electronic Service Delivery
- e-Marketing
- Languages for Describing Goods and Services
- Online Auctions and Technologies
- Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

e-Learning
- Collaborative Learning
- e-Mobile Learning
- Curriculum Content Design & Development
- Delivery Systems and Environments
- Educational Systems Design
- e-Citizenship and Inclusion
- e-Learning Organisational Issues
- Evaluation and Assessment
- Political and Social Aspects
- Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
- Web-based Learning Communities

New Media and e-Society
- Digitization, heterogeneity and convergence
- Interactivity and virtuality
- Citizenship, regulation and heterarchy
- Innovation, identity and the global village syndrome
- Internet Cultures and new interpretations of “Space”
- Polity and the Digitally Suppressed

Digital Services in e-Society
- Service Broadcasting
- Political Reporting
- Development of Digital Services
- Freedom of Expression
- e-Journalism
- Open Access

e-Government /e-Governance
- Accessibility
- Democracy and the Citizen
- Digital Economies
- Digital Regions
- e-Administration
- e-Government Management
- e-Procurement
- e-Supply Chain
- Global Trends
- National and International Economies
- Social Inclusion

e-Health
- Data Security Issues
- e-Health Policy and Practice
- e-Healthcare Strategies and Provision
- Legal Issues
- Medical Research Ethics
- Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (2^nd call): 6 September 2010
- Notification to Authors (2^nd call): 6 October 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (2^nd call): Until 4 November 2010
- Late Registration (2^nd call): After 4 November 2010
- Conference: Perth, Australia, 29, 30 November and 1 December 2010

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Perth, Australia.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES & SOCIETY
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@its-conf.org/
Web site: http://www.its-conf.org/

* Program Committee
Conference and Program Co-Chairs

Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Tomayess Issa, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located event:
International Higher Education 2010 (http://www.ihe-conf.org/) - 29, 30 November and 1 December 2010

* Registered participants in the Internet Technologies & Society conference may attend International Higher Education conference sessions free of charge.

UPDATE:
Some colleagues created a link to us
http://pseudoconferences.blogspot.com/

SIX FAKE CONFERENCES with the approval and sponsorship of IEEE! Random? We don't think so!!!

2010-07-17T07:44:00.000-07:00

See also a Group of 6 FAKE CONFERENCES here:

http://bogusconferences.blogspot.com/

This blog posted today (July 17, 2010) the following incredible negative information and negative comments for IEEE. Deedless to say that we agree:

NEW FAKE IEEE CONFERENCES only in our site (i.e. http://bogusconferences.blogspot.com/ )

Sometimes science is a sad thing…
We are speaking about Bogus conferences or FAKE CONFERENCES (exclucive information in our site; we discovered them)
These are the Fake Conferenceshttp://www.aicit.org/index.html
Each conference of AICIT.ORG is a fake conference/

All this publish or perish madness is already upsetting enough, but fake journals which constantly spam you with most stupid emails, are even worse.
One of the worst examples in the computer science sector is FAKE Conferences with IEEE logo and IEEE Sponsosrhip . These jerks send me at least once a month an email.I especially appreciate the Hello?… After getting this for months, I contacted them to stop spamming me (yes, that’s never a good idea with spammers, I know…) - without any reaction. Then I send an email indicating that I am very interested in publishing something in their journals, just to see what happens - again no reaction.
So, see for example
Registration Form for Publication in their several fake journals:

http://www.aicit.org/jcit/payment.html

http://www.aicit.org/jdcta/payment.html

They must know that in our academic community, if you pay to have a paper
published in some journal, then this is a poisson for your CV

and now, I wonder, this fake pseudo-origin of AICIT , how did it obtain the IEEE logo and the IEEE Sponsorship in its fake conferences.

So, our conclusion is that IEEE works only for money selling now its name and its logo to bordello-conferences of the pseudo-origin of AICIT.
Enjoy the IEEE pseudo-conferences of AICIT in http://www.aicit.org/conf.html

Some of them have been completed without having International Scientific Committee.
What is your opinion, dear IEEE, for this conference:
http://www.aicit.org/niss/
is it fake or not?
and why do you grant your IEEE name and IEEE logo to these BASTARDS? (Sorry, to be more polite, i correct: to these ACADEMIC CRIMINALS)

Next time that somebody will claim that he has many publications in IEEE,

2010-06-20T02:09:00.000-07:00

Dear Colleagues

Next time that somebody will claim that he has many publications in IEEE,
next time that somebody will send you an advertizement for an IEEE conference or special journal issue,
next time that you will tell you something for IEEE,
REMEMBER these stories:

1) Fake Paper accepted in IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010, Hong Kong, December 11-13, 2010.
Details http://netdriver.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-others-have-accepted-bogus-texts-in.html

2) Fake Paper in IEEE IARIA Conference
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-have-letter-of-acceptance-fantastic.html

3-4) Two Fake Papers in IEEE EBISS
http://diehimmelistschoen.blogspot.com/

5-6) Two absolutely fake papers in IEEE Computational Complexity
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2009/05/bogus-papers-in-ieee-computational.html

7-13) Six Papers in
IEEE Conference on Sensors
See
http://evol-eco.blogspot.com/2009/11/beware-of-fake-conference.html

14) Nagib Callaos' conference--- technical co-sponsorship by IEEE

http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2009/05/dear-president-of-ieee.html

15---30) See below

Do you want more links?
Do you want University Web Servers, University URLs?

YES

Many Universities consider that many IEEE Conferences are garbage. Some of them consider that even in the IEEE Journals the review is quite ridiculous and has only to do with your public relations in IEEE and its conferences or if you have put as co-author
some important editor of IEEE

See these link and examine the word: unrefereed

http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/imaging/Publications/unrefereed.html

http://sekmen-cs.tnstate.edu/sekmen/sekmen/ConferencePapersNonRefereed.html

http://www.utdallas.edu/~rmt042000/publications.htm

http://www.math.duke.edu/~das/cv/unrefpub.html

http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~rdv/publications.html

http://www.yawlfoundation.org/arthur/publications/index.php

http://softbase.uwaterloo.ca/~ddbms/projects/multimedia/publications.html

http://npal.ucsd.edu/publications/index.htm

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~awm22/publications/index.html

EXTENDED PLAGIARISM by the LECTURER Dr. Nicola MORRISON, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

2010-06-19T05:50:00.000-07:00

SOURCE:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jun/19/cambridge-university-don-plagiarism-row

Nicola Morrison, a senior lecturer at the University of Cambridge has apologised to an undergraduate for writing an article quoting verbatim some of his dissertation without crediting him.

Nicola Morrison, of the department of Land Economy, had an opinion piece published under her name in the Journal of the Town and Country Planning Association in April. When the student, who has remained anonymous, was told of its contents, he reported the issue to his tutors; he has now been credited for his contribution. Yesterday, Dr Morrison and the university said that an apology had been issued and accepted.

A spokesman said the article was written "on a very short deadline, without properly attributing some of the source material. This was swiftly rectified, the lecturer has apologised to the student concerned, who does not wish to take the matter further, and the matter is closed."
When the story first appeared in the Varsity student magazine, Dr Morrison dismissed it as "tittle-tattle", and considered the matter "dealt with officially and properly". She said the student concerned was "fine". When contacted by the magazine, the student declined to comment.

The essay by Morrison, A Landmark Case, commented on Cambridge housing developments during the recession.

The student union's education officer, Sam Wakeford, urged the university to learn lessons: "This obviously looks bad, but mistakes can be made by academics as well as students; plagiarism is a very complex issue – work produced in a collaborative environment , such as between a student and their supervisor, can be a particularly grey area. The university must take seriously the teaching of proper referencing techniques."

Who others have accepted bogus texts in their fake activities

2010-06-11T02:30:00.000-07:00

See this "PAPER". Obviously, the text is copied from Wikipedia (History of American Football).

It has been accepted now in IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010, Hong Kong, December 11-13, 2010

Hong Kong SAR, China, December 11-13, 2010

http://www.euc2010.org
Session Human-Computer Interaction

The letter of acceptance is provided below

This fake paper has been accepted now in IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010, Hong Kong, December 11-13, 2010. Hong Kong SAR, China, December 11-13, 2010

http://www.euc2010.org
Session Human-Computer Interaction

This is the letter of their "acceptance"

Congratulations on having your paper accepted to IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010, Hong Kong, December 11-13, 2010

conference. This document will help you in the preparation and delivery of the final

version of your accepted paper. Please read this entire document.

If you’ve got any questions about how to format your paper, please contact us

Each paper in the Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP EUC 2010, will be published from a file uploaded by the author to our site used earlier for the submission of the abstract.

All manuscripts have to be received electronically in .pdf format and must be compatible with IEEE Xplore. Please note that the organizer will check that for every paper at least one author has registered before the paper is included in the conference proceedings CD-ROM; furthermore, failing to present the paper at the conference (no-show) will prevent from the inclusion of the paper in the volume transferred to the IEEE Xplore digital library.

The 8th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Embedded and Ubiquitous

Computing (EUC-10), provides actually a new forum for engineers and scientists in

academia, industry, and government to address all challenges including

technical, safety, social, and legal issues related to embedded and

ubiquitous computing and to present and discuss their ideas, results,

work in progress and experience on all aspects of embedded and

ubiquitous computing.

Your papers was reviewed by the international Program Committee.

Accepted papers will be published in the EUC-10 proceedings by IEEE

Computer Society. Selected high quality papers will be recommended for

publication in special issues of Journal of Embedded Computing (JEC),

International Journal of Embedded Systems (IJES), International Journal

of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems and several SCI-indexed

journals. A best paper will be selected for each of the two themes

(embedded computing and ubiquitous computing).

..................................................................

Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

Lui Sha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

The organizer of this fake conference was the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

2010-02-04T02:50:00.001-08:00

The following link is the Book of Abstracts of a Conference organized by Athens University of Economics and Business www.aueb.gr
http://stat-athens.aueb.gr/~esi2004/book_of_abstracts.pdf

Just because in the future, the organizers could remove the link (it is still alive now)
we have saved it on our web as
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B5pRFNFt3DhzNjlkNzJiMTktNzkzYi00NGU0LTkzYTktMTViZGQ1NzE1ZTNm&hl=el

The organizer of this conference was the Athens University of Economics and Business www.aueb.gr

It was the 10th Greek Conference in Statistics. See the page 10. It contains a garbageabout the Psychology of the ElephantsSee, the Page 10 of this junk conference proceedings

ON THE PSYCHOLOGY OF ELEPHANTS
Alex Hmota
Horni Povernice, Nchodska 474, CZ-19000 Prague 9, Czech Republic,
e-mail: hmota@elephants.cz
Karel Kouba
Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences,
CZ-182 07 Prague 8, Czech Republic,
e-mail: kouba@cs.cas.cz
Keywords: elephants, trunk, tusk, long-nose animals, trumpeting
Abstract
This contribution deals with elephants, our most favourite animals. Among the
founders of the elephant science we wish to recall Aristotle, one of the greatest
minds of all times. The best introduction into the subject is starting by the words
on elephants given in his Historia animalium [1]:
‘‘Among animals the most easily tamed and the gentlest is the elephant. It can
be taught a number of tricks, the drift and meaning of which it understands; as,
for instance, it can be taught to kneel in presence of the king. It is very sensitive,
and possessed of an intelligence superior to that of other animals.’’
Our modest contribution is to extend some of the observations on psychology of
elephants to other long-nose animals."

See what we found on the web: FAKE JOURNALS by Elsevier -- FAKE CONFERENCES by IEEE!

2010-02-04T02:50:00.000-08:00

http://www.mombu.com/culture/austria/t-fake-journal-publishing-scam-this-time-not-from-ieee-but-fromelsevier-2750986.html

and it is true!!!
See als
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55679/

FAKE JOURNALS by Elsevier -- FAKE CONFERENCES by IEEE!

Fake Journal Publishing Scam (this time not from IEEE but from
ELSEVIER)

Fake Journal Publishing Scam Here is an interesting scam that I hadn't
seen before. Someone is sending out mail purportedly from the academic
publisher Elsevier soliciting professors to submit papers to vaguely
described journals. The scam is apparently that your paper gets
"accepted" and then you are asked to pay "processing fees", which go
to the scammers without any article ever appearing anywhere.
Then again, anyone who could be fooled by the ridiculous message below
probably deserves what they get.

From: Elsevier Journals
*ELSEVIER*
*BUILDING INSIGHTS; BREAKING BOUNDARIES*------------------------------
* *
*MANUSCRIPTS SUBMISSION*

Dear Colleague,
On behalf of all the Editors-in-chief of Elsevier Journals, we wish
toCommunicate to you that we are currently accepting manuscripts in
all Fieldsof human Endeavour.
All articles published will be peer-reviewed. The following types of
papersare considered for publication:
- Original articles in basic and applied research.
- Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays.
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting recent
developments intheir fields. Papers submitted will be sorted out and
published in any ofour numerous journals that best Fits. This is a
special publicationprocedure which published works will be discussed
at seminars (organized byElsevier) at strategic Cities all over the
world. Please maximize thisopportunity to showcase your research work
to the world.

journals.Parallel submissions will not be accepted.
Our goal is to inform authors about their paper(s) within one week
ofreceipt. All submitted papers, if relevant to the theme and
objectives ofthe journal, will go through an external peer-review
process.

Prospective authors should send their manuscript(s) in *Microsoft Word
orPDF format* to *elsevierissues@live.com* and should Include a cover
sheetcontaining corresponding Author(s) name, Paper Title,
affiliation, phone,fax number, email address etc.

Kind Regards,
Emily Robinson(Prof.)

PS: Pls. show interest by mailing *elsevierissues@live.com* if
yourManuscript is not ready but will be ready soon.
I love the claim that "Papers submitted will be sorted out and
published in any ofour numerous journals that best Fits."

FAKE JOURNALS by Elsevier -- FAKE CONFERENCES by IEEE!

FAKE JOURNALS by Elsevier -- FAKE CONFERENCES by IEEE!

A useful update with a new confess for fake conference protection

2010-02-03T07:10:00.000-08:00

Caution
FAKE CONFERENCE
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2010/02/new-confess-for-bogus-papers-of-ieee.html

Learn more about SCIgen Fake IEEE papers and Bogus IEEE Conferences

2010-01-28T05:06:00.001-08:00

See this web page:

http://wapedia.mobi/en/SCIgen

and earn more about SCIgen Fake IEEE papers and Bogus IEEE Conferences

Prof. Petre Dini (owner of IARIA) continues discrediting and libeling other conferences

2010-01-27T05:35:00.000-08:00

Source: http://bogusconferences.blogspot.com/

Prof. Petre Dini (owner of IARIA IEEE Conferences) continues discrediting and libeling other conferences.
This is what he has posted in our Blog:
Please, Professor Petre Dini stop the Relentless attack to the other societies!

This was the Post of Prof. Petre Dini (owner of IARIA IEEE Conferences) in our Blog!

As per information we obtained from UK ISP, this website domain of Journal http://www.ijcsi.org is registered under some name "Nevin Vunka Jungum".

Some people and lawyers at IEEE headquarters are working on these accusatory posts.

http://anti-ieee.blogspot.com/2009/12/comment-of-petre-dini-in-blog.html

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090606/0632555149.shtml

http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2009/12/petre-dini-creator-and-owner-of-iaria.html

http://recursed.blogspot.com/2009/04/fake-journal-publishing-scam.html

http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2009/12/web-spamming-by-ieee-and-other-academic.html

http://anti-ieee.blogspot.com/

http://bogus-conferences.blogspot.com/2009/11/we-do-not-know-anymore-what-to-assume.html

Some new journals have appeared recently and they are scam actually.
Most academic publications should be free while maintaining quality.
It is worrying to see journals like Journal of Computer Science, http://www.ijcsi.org,
which send scam paper submission invitation by all means on research communities.

IEEE goes only for your money!!! "Without registration and payment of the registration fee, the paper will NOT be published in the proceedings!"

2010-01-25T03:57:00.000-08:00

We found this comment in the blog:
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-shame-for-ieee-computational.html#comments

Please, check this phrase: "Without registration and payment of the registration fee, the paper will NOT be published in the proceedings!"

It does mean that IEEE goes only for your money!!!

Enjoy this IEEE Spam:
----------------------------------------

Dear Colleagues,

Le us remind you the most important informations.
The deadline for paper submission is approaching. Please submit your paper as soon as possible to avoid congestion and server problems in the last days.

Please check carefully if your paper submitted to the EEEIC Conference (http://eeeic.eu) does comply with the requirements (correct formatting formatting, number of pages not greater than 4, PDF IEEE Xplore compatible format).

Please check carefully all requirements enumerated here: http://eeeic.eu/information-for-authors/ and : http://eeeic.eu/2009/09/22/ieee-pdf-express/

All submissions must be electronic in PDF format and must follow the two-column format of IEEE Conference Proceedings. Authors are strongly recommended to use the style files available at the website. The maximum length of a manuscript is four (4) pages.
PLEASE use the PDF converter for IEEE Conferences - PDF eXpress. To use it, please register for an IEEE PDF eXpress account with the Conference ID: eeeic10x.

All papers not compatible with IEEE Xplore will be rejected. This is required by IEEE Xplore.

IMPORTANT:
For each accepted paper, at least one author must register Completed registration is required for all accepted papers and/or presentations that are to be included in conference proceedings. Without registration and payment of the registration fee, the paper will NOT be published in the proceedings!

Best regards,

Zbigniew Leonowicz, PhD

SOURCE:
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-shame-for-ieee-computational.html#comments

http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com

We received one more advertizement from a new Bogus Conference. Fortunately, they do not use the name of IEEE in vain

2010-01-22T02:31:00.001-08:00

We received one more advertiSEment from a new Bogus Conference. Fortunately, they do not use the name of IEEE in vain

Fortunately, THIS FAKE CONFERENCE IS NOT SUPPORTED FROM IEEE

Dear Colleagues!

With this letter we send you information about the NINTH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC - PRACTICAL CONFERENCE “Research, Development and Application of High Technologies in Industry”, - 22-23 April 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia and other conferences. We invite you and colleagues from your Institute (University) take part in these conferences, also as Organizing Committees members.

More information about conferences you can see on the site: htfi.ru, htfi.org.

With best regards,

Co-Chairman and Chief Executive of the Organizing Committees, Kudinov A.P.

NINTH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC - PRACTICAL CONFERENCE

“Research, Development and Application

of High Technologies in Industry”

22-23 April 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia

DEAR COLLEAGUES!

We inform you that THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC - PRACTICAL CONFERENCE "RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF HIGH TECHNOLOGIES IN INDUSTRY" will be held in 22-23 April, 2010 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Organizing Committee include: Institute of Atmospheric Optics of the Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Russian State Hydrometeorological University, Saint-Petersburg State University of Waterway Communications, Academy of Strategic Researches, Information and High Technologies (ASRIHT), Tomsk Polytechnical University, Military Academy of Communication of Ministry of Defence, Pavlov Institute of Physiology

of the Russian Academy of Sciences and other institutes and organizations.

At the plenary and section sessions of the Conference the following topics will be considered:

1. The role of federal and regional authorities, state and private industrial sectors, mass media in the development of the education, basic and applied researches (hereinafter, BAR) and high technologies (hereinafter, HT) in Russia, USA, CIS and EU countries and other developed countries. The comparative analysis, search of optimal mechanisms of interaction and management.

2. The state of the art and prospects of application of HТ results of basic and applied researches in various fields of science, education and industry (in particular, in military fields). Russia, the countries of CIS and EU, USA, China, India and other countries of the world:

1. Information and computer technologies (ICT), computer modelling, robotics, radio electronics, scientific instrument making, telecommunication systems, applied mathematics, direct and return problems, programming, cryptography and information protection databases;

2. Theoretical and applied physics, radiophysics, chemistry, physical chemistry, gas dynamics and hydrodynamics;

3. Physics and technology of electric discharges, optical, laser, plasma, film and nanotechnologies, electronics, including the high capacities, nondestructive control;

4. Atomic and nuclear technologies, aircraft, rocket design and astronautics;

5. Powder metallurgy, materials technology, composition materials and strengthening technologies;

6. Biotechnology, medicine, genetics, cytology and agriculture;

7. Global and regional climatology and ecology. Research of processes, diagnostics, the analysis of development processes, development of methods of climate and ecology control;

8. Extraction, processing and transportation of raw material, energetics, welding, construction, metallurgy, chemical and heavy industry, mechanical engineering, shipbuilding, transport, consumer production;

9. Standardization and automation of control systems of business, science, industry, regions and the state. The theory of steady development, computer simulation;

10. The international standardization of education, BAR, HT, and HT production. Problems, analysis and forecasts;

3. Problems and ways of solution of economic efficiency and competitiveness in the world education market, BAR and HT in Russia and the CIS countries. Experience of the Eurounion, USA, China, India and other countries. A policy and economy of education, BAR, HT and HT in industries. Analytics, the comparative analysis.

4. The education, basic and applied researches, high technologies and highly technological industry, as factors of state security, independence of the state, quality of life of citizens and protection of human rights.

5. Development of HТ business - incubators, technoparks, ICТ - parks and "silicone" regions - as a basis of development of industry, including an export component, the performance of the state and defence orders. Practice, legislative base, the analysis and forecast.

6. Intensification of works in the field of BAR, HТ, development HТ industry and preparation of highly skilled experts, as a basis for the solution of the problem of doubling of gross national product. Problems of youth in science and HТ industry.

7. Basic and applied researches, high technologies and the highly technological industry of double purpose of 21st century. Computer simulation.

8. Historiography, dialectics and political science of the development of education, basic and applied researches, high technologies and the highly developed industry.

Such an expanded approach to the subjects of the Conference and the complex scientific analysis, as the experience of previous conferences has shown, make it possible to evaluate the state of the art, to develop and realize the optimal solutions and way of the development of education, BAR, HТ and the highly developed industry. It is also confirmed by the long-term work of the best Russian and foreign Universities, Institutes and Academies of Sciences.

We propose you and scientific workers of your University, Institute, Institution to take an active part in the Conference and in the work of Organizing Committee. The deadline for sending applications to participate in the Conference is 21.03.2010.

Your application should contain the following information:

1. First name and last name of authors;

2. Title and length of paper abstracts;

3. Affiliation (if materials are presented by the institution);

4. First name and last name of a speaker;

5. Mailing address, fax and e-mail.

The number of papers is not limited.

More detailed information on conditions of participation in the International Conference will be sent after reception of the application.

Please send your Application and proposals on the Conference subjects to the following addresses:
In Tomsk: 634055, Tomsk, Russia, Institute of Atmospheric Optics SB RAS, 1 Akademichesky Ave.
Phone in Tomsk: +7(3822)492-738.
In St. Petersburg: North-West Representative Office of IAO SB RAS
Phone in St. Petersburg: +7(921)-877-36-24 - for English and German assistance
Tel/Fax: +7(812)574-30-17.
Post address: P/O box 01, St. Petersburg, 195298, Russia.
E-mail: spbtpd@mail.ru

Co-Chair and Chief Executive of the Conference Organizing Committee, vice-director of IAO SB RAS

Kudinov A.P.

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On the web-site htfi.ru you can also find information about the following conferences:

1) FOURTH International scientific - practical conference

“The lessons of history. Second World war AND HISTORY OF RUSSIA AND WORLD IN 20-21 CENTURY”

08-09 April 2010, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

The deadline for sending applications to participate in the Conference is 15.03.2010.

The deadline for submitting papers is 01.04.2010.

The Organizing Committee

2) FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC - PRACTICAL CONFERENCE

"GEOPOLITICS, GEOECONOMICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS PROBLEMS. NATO AND EU EXPANSION TO THE EAST – SECURITY PROBLEMS OF RUSSIA, CIS STATES, EUROPE AND ASIA"

18-19 May 2010, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

The deadline for sending applications to participate in the Conference is 25.04.2010.

The deadline for submitting papers is 15.05.2010.

The Organizing Committee

P.S. We would be very thankful if You approved the letter receipt!

If You are not interested in receiving such information anymore, please, resend us the answer with the word “refusal” to conf@htfi.ru

We strongly believethat many IEEE conferences are ... victims of SCIGEN.

2010-01-16T01:18:00.000-08:00

From the Blog: http://anti-ieee.blogspot.com/

IEEE and SCIGEN

We strongly believethat many IEEE conferences are ... victims of SCIGEN.
I guess that this SciGen is a good tool to prove the anomalies of the IEEE Conferences.

One more BOGUS IEEE Conference!

One more BOGUS IEEE Conference uses Spam Bombing
As we know this conference has already accepted in the previous years many
sily papers (some of them were copy-paste from on-line Football Newspapers)
========================================

We should be very grateful if you would share this CFP with your colleagues that are interested in multi-disciplinary issues related to creating future digital living environments.

IE10 6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments

Co-sponsored by the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Computational Intelligence and the Association for the Advancement of AI

July 19-21, 2010
(workshops: July 18-19)

Monash University (Sunway campus), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

http://intelligentenvironments.org/conferences/ie10/

Intelligent Environments are everyday settings such as homes, offices, hotels, restaurants, shops, hospitals, teaching-rooms, stage/studios, manufacturing environments, cars, trains, aircraft, boats, cities, public spaces and electronic clothing/fashion that are equipped with advanced networked computer based systems, which enable better or new lifestyles for people. For example, such technology can lead to design of living environments that are more comfortable, usable, productive, secure, caring, social, entertaining or energy efficient.

Each year, the International Conference on Intelligent Environments provides a leading edge forum for scientists, researchers and engineers from industry and academia to present theoretical and practical research results on Intelligent Environments, their multiple aspects and their application in various domains of activity. IE'10 is the sixth edition in a series of highly successful conferences that were organized in Colchester (UK), Athens (Greece), Ulm (Germany), Seattle (USA) and Barcelona (Spain) in the past five years; in 2010, the IE conference will take place in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) hosted by the Monash University.

The IE'10 conference program will include workshops, invited lectures and special sessions of full and short papers and posters. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to) Ambient Intelligence, Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing, Intelligent Agents, Context Awareness, End-User Programming, Human-Computer Interaction (Speech, Vision and Haptics), Smart Sensors, Affective Systems, Wearables (smart clothes, digital fashion etc), Domestic Robotics, Virtual & Mixed-Reality, Middleware, Networking, Communications, Development/Testing/Evaluation Methodologies, Building Architecture, Art and Design, Cultural, Social, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Intelligent Environments. Other issues of interest include novel computational models and new theories that support advances in these areas.

Forums:

For updates on the Intelligent Environments research community and conferences, we invite you to join:

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/e/vgh/2578102/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/IE_Forum<http://twitter.com/IE_Forum>
WikiCFP: http://www.wikicfp.com/cfp/servlet/event.showcfp?eventid=7472

Important dates:

* Paper submission: 22nd February 2010
* Notification of acceptance: 12th April 2010
* Paper final submission (with revisions): 26th April 2010

Organizing Committee

General Chair
Simon Egerton (Monash University, Malaysia)
Ichiro Satoh (National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo)

Program Chairs
Victor Callaghan (University of Essex, UK)
Achilles Kameas (Hellenic Open University)

Workshops Chairs
Juan Carlos Augusto (University of Ulster, UK)
Vincent Lee (Monash University, Australia)

Strategic Planning Chair
Hani Hagras (University of Essex, UK)

Posters and Short Papers
Martin Colley (University of Essex, UK)
Gregory O'Hare (UCD, Ireland)

Doctoral Colloquium Chairs
Albert Yeap (AUT, New Zealand)
Dolors Royo (UPC, Spain)

Publication Chairs
Michael Weber (University of Ulm, Germany)

Publicity Chairs
Angélica Reyes (UPC, Spain)
Minjuan Wang (Sand Diego State University, USA)
Zheng Xiaoxia (Essex University)

Professional Society Liaison Chairs
Dianne Cook (Washington State University, USA)

IEEE Appointed SMC Liaison Chairs
[To be announced]

Industrial Liaison Chairs
Wong Chek Yoon (Monash University, Malaysia)
Brian Johnson (Intel Research Labs, USA)
Hiew Pang Leang (BT Malaysian Research Centre)

Student Liaison
Anushia Inthiran (Monash University, Malaysia)
Shumei Zhang (University of Ulster, UK)

Treasurers
Michael Weber (University of Ulm, Germany)
Lee Sock Wee (Monash University, Malaysia)

Web and Online System Administration
Konstantinos Togias - (CTI, Greece)

Intelligent Environments Steering Committee (alphabetical listing)
Vic Callaghan (University of Essex)
Dimitris Charitos (University of Athens)
Diane Cook (Washington State University, USA)
Hani Hagras (University of Essex) - President
Sumi Helal - (University of Florida, USA) Achilles Kameas (Hellenic Open University, Greece)
Wolfgang Minker - (University of Ulm, Germany)
Gearge Rousos (University of London, UK)
Michael Weber (University of Ulm, Germany)

Geographical Advisory Committee
Europe
Wolfgang Minker - (University of Ulm, Germany)
North America
Sumi Helal - (University of Florida, USA)
South America
Victor Zamudio - (Instituto Tecnológico De León, Mexico)
China
Liping Shen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University,)
Indonesia
Susie Daryanti (Universitas Gadja Mada, Indonesia)
Malaysia
Borhanuddin Bin Mohd Ali (Universiti Putra Malaysia)
Australia/New Zealand
Waleed Abdulla (The University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Middle East
Dr. Fatmah Baothman (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia)

SOURCE: http://anti-ieee.blogspot.com/

http://low-quality-conference.blogspot.com/

2010-01-13T03:03:00.000-08:00

http://low-quality-conference.blogspot.com/

Interesting! Isn't it?

Many Universities consider that many IEEE Conferences are garbage. Some of them consider that even in the IEEE Journals the review is ridiculous and h

2009-12-24T02:32:00.000-08:00

Many Universities consider that many IEEE Conferences are garbage. Some of them consider that even in the IEEE Journals the review is quite ridiculous and has only to do with your public relations in IEEE and its conferences or if you have put as co-author
some important editor of IEEE

See these link and examine the word: unrefereed

http://www.ece.ncsu.edu/imaging/Publications/unrefereed.html

http://sekmen-cs.tnstate.edu/sekmen/sekmen/ConferencePapersNonRefereed.html

http://www.utdallas.edu/~rmt042000/publications.htm

http://www.math.duke.edu/~das/cv/unrefpub.html

http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~rdv/publications.html

http://www.yawlfoundation.org/arthur/publications/index.php

http://softbase.uwaterloo.ca/~ddbms/projects/multimedia/publications.html

http://npal.ucsd.edu/publications/index.htm

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~awm22/publications/index.html

From http://netdriver.blogspot.com
Forward this message to your mailing lists with reference to us
http://netdriver.blogspot.com/2009/12/many-universities-consider-that-many.html

Finally there are many web pages and blog speaking for the: fake IEEE papers

2009-12-18T09:00:00.000-08:00

Finally there are many web pages and blog speaking for the: fake IEEE papers
See what a commentor with the name "Doppler" posted today

http://www.jjj.de/fake-conf.html

SOURCE: http://netdriver.blogspot.com/2009/12/mario-panini-said-and-dario-petri-ieee.html#comments

Mario Panini said and Dario Petri (IEEE Office replied). Mario sent me their correspondence.....

2009-12-07T03:55:00.000-08:00

Dear Prof. DARIO PETRI, IEEE Italy Section

I successfully defended my PhD dissertation in August 2009.
The conference of IEEE where my supervisor sent me was held in July
This IEEE Conference was a complete dissaster and fiasco.
Some session has good papers, but the majority of the papers were of very bad quality
This was my third conference in IEEE.
Their coffee-breaks were unacceptable, just plain coffee.
No meals -- no banquet at all!!! (We had to pay extra money for meals and Banquet)

I am not sure if someone would post this announcement in your blog.

When I receive an unsolicited CFP from IEEE conference, I always ask the sender as to from where they got my email address from. They never replied!!!!
For the tutorials we had to pay 400 USD extra though they were of very bad qualityPublish it because I am sure that those IEEE organizers were "Mafia"

The answer to me was

Dear Mario,

I believe that many IEEE (sponsored or co-sponsored) conferences are quite bogus because they have published a lot of fake papers from SCIgen automatic machine or papers of low quality...
We must be careful, otherwise our massive policy for giving the name of IEEE to strange organizers will harm the reputation of IEEE conference, if we have kept any rank of such an old reputation.

Dario
Prof. DARIO PETRI
IEEE Italy Section
petri@ieee.org

Also see
other fake conferences

BOGUS PAPERS in ELSEVIER!!!!!!

2009-12-03T00:34:00.000-08:00

The follwoing is from:
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55671/

Merck published fake journal

Posted by Bob Grant

[Entry posted at 30th April 2009 04:27 PM GMT]

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Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a peer-reviewed medical journal, but contained only reprinted or summarized articles--most of which presented data favorable to Merck products--that appeared to act solely as marketing tools with no disclosure of company sponsorship.

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"I've seen no shortage of creativity emanating from the marketing departments of drug companies," Peter Lurie, deputy director of the public health research group at the consumer advocacy nonprofit Public Citizen, said, after reviewing two issues of the publication obtained by The Scientist. "But even for someone as jaded as me, this is a new wrinkle."

The Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, which was published by Exerpta Medica, a division of scientific publishing juggernaut Elsevier, is not indexed in the MEDLINE database, and has no website (not even a defunct one). The Scientist obtained two issues of the journal: Volume 2, Issues 1 and 2, both dated 2003. The issues contained little in the way of advertisements apart from ads for Fosamax, a Merck drug for osteoporosis, and Vioxx. (Click here and here to view PDFs of the two issues.)

The claim that Merck had created a journal out of whole cloth to serve as a marketing tool was first reported by The Australian about three weeks ago. It came to light in the context of a civil suit filed by Graeme Peterson, who suffered a heart attack in 2003 while on Vioxx, against Merck and its Australian subsidiary, Merck, Sharp & Dohme Australia (MSDA).

In testimony provided at the trial last week, which was obtained by The Scientist, George Jelinek, an Australian physician and long-time member of the World Association of Medical Editors, reviewed four issues of the journal that were published from 2003-2004. An "average reader" (presumably a doctor) could easily mistake the publication for a "genuine" peer reviewed medical journal, he said in his testimony. "Only close inspection of the journals, along with knowledge of medical journals and publishing conventions, enabled me to determine that the Journal was not, in fact, a peer reviewed medical journal, but instead a marketing publication for MSD[A]."

He also stated that four of the 21 articles featured in the first issue he reviewed referred to Fosamax. In the second issue, nine of the 29 articles related to Vioxx, and another 12 to Fosamax. All of these articles presented positive conclusions regarding the MSDA drugs. "I can understand why a pharmaceutical company would collect a number of research papers with results favourable to their products and make these available to doctors," Jelinek said at the trial. "This is straightforward marketing."

Jelinek also pointed out several "review" articles that only cited one or two references. He described one of these articles as "simply a summary of an already published article," and noted that they were authored by "B&J Editorial."

"It appears that 'B&J' (presumably Bone and Joint) refers to the Journal, and B&J editorial presumably to the publishers or owners as there is no editor of the journal," Jelinek said in his testimony. "This is a subtle attribution, and many readers may not realise that the paper was written by the owners or publishers of the journal, presuming that is who would write under the heading of 'editorial'."

Lurie, in examining two of the issues for The Scientist, agreed that one particularly strange element of the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine is that it contains "review" articles that cite just one or two references. "I've never seen anything quite like this," he said. "Reviews are usually swimming in references." For example, one article on osteoporosis labeled above the title as a "meta-analysis" cites two references -- one itself a meta-analysis. "To the jaundiced eye, [the journal] might be detected for what it is: marketing," he said. "Many doctors would fail to identify that and might be influenced by what they read."

Lurie noted that the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine is akin to other publishing strategies employed by drug companies; paying for supplements to existing journals or publishing compilations of original research articles that tend to lack scientific rigor (so-called "throwaways"). "It's kissing cousin to two other tricks that the [drug] companies pull."

In response to several questions about the publication posed by The Scientist, an MSDA spokesperson wrote in an email: "MSDA understood that Elsevier envisaged the complimentary publication would draw on the vast resources of Elsevier, publishers of many leading peer-reviewed journals including Lancet, Bone, Joint Bone Spine and others, to deliver novel and timely full text articles and abstracts to physicians." Many of the articles appearing in the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine were in fact reprints or summaries of studies that originally appeared in other Elsevier journals.

A spokesperson for Elsevier, however, told The Scientist, "I wish there was greater disclosure that it was a sponsored journal." Disclosure of Merck's funding of the journal was not mentioned anywhere in the copies of issues obtained by The Scientist.

Elsevier acknowledged that Merck had sponsored the publication, but did not disclose the amount the drug company paid. In a statement emailed to The Scientist, Elsevier said that the company "does not today consider a compilation of reprinted articles a 'Journal'."

"Elsevier acknowledges the concern that the journals in question didn't have the appropriate disclosures," the statement continued. "It is worth noting that project in question was produced 6 years ago and disclosure protocols have evolved since 2003. Elsevier's current disclosure policies meet the rigor and requirements of the current publishing environment."

The Elsevier spokesperson said the company wasn't aware of how many copies of the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine were produced or how the publication was distributed in Australia, but noted that "the common practice for sponsored journals is that doctors receive them complimentary." The spokesperson added that Elsevier had no plans to look further into the matter.

One of the members of Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine's "Honorary Editorial Board," Peter Brooks, a rheumatologist in Australia, said he didn't recall who asked him to serve on the board, but noted that he was on Merck's Asian Pacific and international advisory boards from the mid 1990s until about 2004, as well as the advisory boards of other pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Amgen. "You get involved in a whole bunch of things at this level," Brooks said, adding that he had put his name on "a few advertorials" for pharmaceutical companies about 10 years ago.

As for the Australasian Journal of Bone and Joint Medicine, he said, "If it would have been put to me that [the journal] was just sort of a throwaway, then I would have said 'no'" to serving on its editorial board. He said he was never paid for his role, adding that he "didn't ever get [manuscripts] to review or anything like that," while on the board, because the journal did not accept original manuscripts for review.

"Having looked at one issue, it actually had some marketing studies," Brooks said. "It also had papers that were excerpted from other peer-reviewed journals. I don't think it's fair to say it was totally a marketing journal."

Editor's note (April 30): This story has been updated from a previous version.

REFERENCES
1. http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55671/

WE RECEIVED THIS EMAIL: Prof. DARIO PETRI petri@ieee.org accepted the bad quality of IEEE Sponsored conferences

2009-12-02T03:49:00.000-08:00

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An impressive declaration from Prof. DARIO PETRI petri@ieee.org

Dear Mario,

I believe that many IEEE (sponsored or co-sponsored) conferences are quite bogusbecause they have published a lot of fake papers from SCIgen automatic machineor papers of low quality...We must be careful, otherwise our massive policy for giving the name of IEEE to strangeorganizers will harm the reputation of IEEE conference, if we have kept any rank of such an old reputation.
Prof. DARIO PETRI
IEEE Italy Section
petri@ieee.org
********************************************************Posted athttp://anti-plagiarism-org.blogspot.com/2009/12/impressive-declaration-from-prof-dario.html

IARIA Bogus IEEE Conferences started again their criminal work

2009-11-19T07:49:00.000-08:00

From the following blog http://bogus-conferences.blogspot.com
we took the following post:

The IARIA continuing its policy of absolutely non-reviewed articles and the IEEE publishes all the Proceedings with garbage papers of IARIA

We do not know anymore what to assume. The IARIA continuing its policy of absolutely non-reviewed articles and the IEEE publishes all the Proceedings with garbage papers of IARIA
The IARIA is a real disaster and a slap in the face of science.

Why doesn't IEEE stop to publish the IARIA proceedings? because of the commission of course!

SOURCE: http://bogus-conferences.blogspot.com

The BOGUS IADIS Conferences sent us 6 different advertizements today. No possibility for unsubscribe!

2009-11-19T07:47:00.000-08:00

The BOGUS IADIS Conferences sent us 6 different advertizements today. No possibility for unsubscribe!

This is the SPAM of the IADIS Bogus (fake) Conference

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Apologies for cross-postings. Please send to interested colleagues and
students

-- CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (1st call extension): 4
December 2009 --

IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2010
March 18-21, 2010 - Porto, Portugal
(http://www.esociety-conf.org/)

* Keynote Speaker (confirmed):
Christina Preston, MirandaNet Founder, UK

* Conference Background and Goals
The IADIS e-Society 2010 conference aims to address the main issues of
concern within the Information Society. This conference covers both the
technical as well as the non-technical aspects of the Information Society.
Broad areas of interest are eSociety and Digital Divide, eBusiness /
eCommerce, eLearning, New Media and E-Society, Digital Services in
eESociety, eGovernment /eGovernance, eHealth, Information Systems, and
Information Management. These broad areas are divided into more detailed
areas (see below). However innovative contributes that don't fit into
these areas will also be considered since they might be of benefit to
conference attendees.

* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The
proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and
CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library
(online accessible). The best paper authors will be invited to publish
extended versions of their papers in the IADIS Journal on WWW/Internet
(ISSN: 1645-7641) and other selected Journals.

* Types of submissions
Full and Short Papers, Reflection Papers, Posters/Demonstrations,
Tutorials, Panels and Doctoral Consortium. All submissions are subject to
a blind refereeing process.

* Topics related to the Information Society are of interest. These
include, but are not limited to the following areas and topics:

«« eSociety and Digital Divide »»
Connectivity may imply social coherence and integration. The opposite may
result as well, when systematic measures are taken to exclude certain
individuals or certain groups. Papers are welcomed on the next keywords:
. Social Integration
. Social Bookmarking
. Social Software
. E-Democracy
. Social Integration

«« eBusiness / eCommerce »»
May include issues relating to:
. Business Ontologies and Models
. Digital Goods and Services
. eBusiness Models
. eCommerce Application Fields
. eCommerce Economics
. eCommerce Services
. Electronic Service Delivery
. eMarketing
. Languages for Describing Goods and Services
. Online Auctions and Technologies
. Virtual Organisations and Teleworking

«« eLearning »»
May include issues relating to:
. Collaborative Learning
. Curriculum Content Design & Development
. Delivery Systems and Environments
. Educational Systems Design
. E-Citizenship and Inclusion
. eLearning Organisational Issues
. Evaluation and Assessment
. Political and Social Aspects
. Virtual Learning Environments and Issues
. Web-based Learning Communities

«« New Media and E-Society »»
May include issues relating to:
. Digitization, heterogeneity and convergence
. Interactivity and virtuality
. Citizenship, regulation and heterarchy
. Innovation, identity and the global village syndrome
. Internet Cultures and new interpretations of "Space"
. Polity and the Digitally Suppressed

«« Digital Services in E-Society »»
May include issues relating to:
. Service Broadcasting
. Political Reporting
. Development of Digital Services
. Freedom of Expression
. E-Journalism
. Open Access

«« eGovernment /eGovernance »»
May include issues relating to:
. Accessibility
. Democracy and the Citizen
. Digital Economies
. Digital Regions
. eAdministration
. eGovernment Management
. eProcurement
. Global Trends
. National and International Economies
. Social Inclusion

«« eHealth »»
May include issues relating to:
. Data Security Issues
. eHealth Policy and Practice
. eHealthcare Strategies and Provision
. Legal Issues
. Medical Research Ethics
. Patient Privacy and Confidentiality

«« Information Systems »»
May include issues relating to:
. Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
. Intelligent Agents
. Intelligent Systems
. IS Security Issues
. Mobile Applications
. Multimedia Applications
. Payment Systems
. Protocols and Standards
. Software Requirements and IS Architectures
. Storage Issues
. Strategies and Tendencies
. System Architectures
. Telework Technologies
. Ubiquitous Computing
. Virtual Reality
. Wireless Communications

«« Information Management »»
May include issues relating to:
. Computer-Mediated Communication
. Content Development
. Cyber law and Intellectual Property
. Data Mining
. ePublishing and Digital Libraries
. Human Computer Interaction
. Information Search and Retrieval
. Knowledge Management
. Policy Issues
. Privacy Issues
. Social and Organizational Aspects
. Virtual Communities
. XML and Other Extensible Languages

* Important Dates:
- Submission deadline (1st call extension): 4 December 2009
- Notification to Authors (1st call extension): 6 January 2010
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration (1st call
extension): Until 27 January 2010
- Late Registration (1st call extension): After 27 January 2010
- Conference: Porto, Portugal, 18 to 21 March 2010

* Conference Location
The conference will be held in Porto, Portugal.

* Secretariat
IADIS Secretariat - IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2010
Rua Sao Sebastiao da Pedreira, 100, 3
1050-209 Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: secretariat@esociety-conf.org/
Web site: http://www.esociety-conf.org/

* Program Committee

Program Chair
Piet Kommers, University of Twente, The Netherlands

Conference Chair
Pedro Isaías, Universidade Aberta (Portuguese Open University), Portugal

Committee Members:*
* for committee list please refer to
http://www.esociety-conf.org/committees.asp

* Co-located events
Please also check the co-located events:
Information Systems 2010 (http://www.is-conf.org/) - 18-20 March 2010
Mobile Learning 2010 (http://www.mlearning-conf.org/) - 19-21 March 2010

* Registered participants in the e-Society conference may attend
Information Systems and Mobile Learning conferences' sessions free of
charge.

----
The ICEIMT hypermail/searchable archives may be found at URL:
http://tools.org/EI/ICEIMT/

An interesting post in another blog: IEEE Confess

2009-06-12T03:31:00.000-07:00

An interesting post in another blog:
http://bogusconferences.blogspot.com/2009/05/bogus-conferences-ieee-confess.html

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

BOGUS CONFERENCES (IEEE Confess)

See this email from IEEE and publish it
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From: EButterfield@computer.org
to: EButterfield@computer.org
cc: ABurgess@computer.org,
John Walz: <johnwalz@ameritech.net>,
"Reisman, Sorel" <sreisman@calstate.edu>, AStickley@computer.org, TBaldwin@computer.org, r.sterritt@ulster.ac.uk

date Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 4:03 AMsubject Confidential: Important CPS Message Regarding Fraudulent Machine-Generated Paper Submissions

TO: CPS Clients FROM: Evan Butterfield, Director of Products and Services RE: Fraudulent Machine-Generated Paper Submissions (CONFIDENTIAL) DATE: 16 January 2009

The IEEE Computer Society (CS) has evidence that multiple conferences are receiving machine-generated papers.

In two cases, conferences have actually accepted an obviously fraudulent submission.

This is a serious issue that threatens the credibility of your conference, the quality of the digital library, and the reputation of both the IEEE and CS.

It requires your immediate attention.

Please take this opportunity to ensure that your peer review processes are being followed, and adapt to any new requirements that may be communicated by the IEEE or the Computer Society.

No conference published by CPS should rely on an abstract review.
It is very important that you review carefully the full text of all papers submitted to your conference.
If you have already accepted papers, your program committee should review the full text again. While CPS staff will be conducting random spot-checks of conference papers in the publishing queue, we are relying on you to authenticate the content of your proceedings.

Any papers that were not actually presented at your conference need to be brought to our attention, and should receive close review.

In known cases, the machine-generated origin is obvious from a reading of the first few paragraphs of the paper; the abstracts are human-generated and do not indicate the quality of the paper itself.

In the past, papers have been submitted by “Herbert Schlangemann,” but be mindful that the perpetrator of this fraud will change the approach over time.

In the event you discover any evidence of questionable content or behavior, please communicate that to us immediately along with an action plan for addressing the problem.
Thank you for your help in maintaining the quality of our products.

Evan M. Butterfield
Director of Products & Services
IEEE Computer Society10662
Los Vaqueros Circle
Los Alamitos, CA 90720714.816.2165
ebutterfield@computer.org
714.822.9005 mobile

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: What i found in a similar blog:
http://bogus-conferences.blogspot.com/
is:

Denis Baggi, Chairman, IEEE CS confessed, according to a comment on the Schlangemann Blog, that "Selection criteria such a refereeing etc. are meaningless", probably means that IEEE has accepted the unreliability and bogosity of its conferences. Denis Baggi also adds: "Articles should be written only if someone has something to tell others, in which case the validity of the paper is obvious",
http://bogus-conferences.blogspot.com/; 27 May 2009 03:20
Anonymous said...: Then, I wll not send again papers to IEEE co-sponsored conferences...

The whole story

2009-06-12T03:30:00.000-07:00

Most of us associate spam with penis enlargement and get-rich-quick schemes. But many graduate students in computer science are being driven crazy by e-mail appeals to send papers to academic conferences that they believe exist primarily to make money.

Three graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology decided to do something about it. They created a computer program that would link together random scientific phrases, graphs and charts -- and they used the program to submit a bogus paper to a conference, which accepted it. Now that the graduate students are sharing their program, the bogus paper, and their acceptance letter with the world on a Web Site, the conference has uninvited them and unaccepted the paper. But the students think they have made their point.

In 2008 and 2009, several computer generated (gibberish) conference articles, with fictitious authors, appeared in IEEE Xplore Data Base coming from many IEEE Sponsored events. Other poor quality conference articles have also, occasionally, appeared in IEEE Confererences and consequently in IEEE Xplore. The IEEE itself accepted (see http://www.ieee.org/web/aboutus/corporate/board/ad_hoc_committees/qualityofconferencepapers.html )that such articles hurt the reputation of IEEE and destroyed confidence in the quality of IEEE publications. IEEE tried to find solutions against this vulnerability but in vain, because many more bogus papers appeared in the next months (see http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com and http://blog.marcelotoledo.org/2008/12/26/how-can-someone-trust-ieee )

Many people protest for the bogus papers in IEEE

2009-06-04T03:36:00.000-07:00

Many people protest for the bogus papers in IEEE

http://danushka-menikkumbura.blogspot.com/2008/12/software-generated-paper-accepted-at.html

They say:

I discovered that in May of 2009 also two new outbreaks of fake papers appeared in IEEE:

Please take careful note of the information below
about this IEEE Computational Complexity conference
It is another FAKE IEEE conference (fake IEEE spamference) this time on Computational Complexity.
The organizers are academic criminals.
Do NOT send these criminals any money.
Please send this warning on to your networks.
Many young people have been defrauded lately - and we must work together to defeat such efforts.
Use extreme caution when applying for conferences advertised by organizations unknown to you.
What a Shame for the IEEE Computational Complexity Conference!
two new bogus papers have been accepted in the http://facweb.cs.depaul.edu/jrogers/complexity/accepted.html

Extractors for varieties ??????????by Zeev Dvir !!!

andExtractors for Low-Weight Affine Sources ??????? byAnup Rao

These 2 papers are absolutely fake papers.

What a Shame for the IEEE Computational Complexity Spamference!

http://danushka-menikkumbura.blogspot.com/2008/12/software-generated-paper-accepted-at.html

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2009-06-04T03:35:00.000-07:00

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ACADEMIC SPAM FROM BOGUS CONFERENCES

2009-05-31T09:13:00.001-07:00

http://academic-spam.blogspot.com/

IEEE Bogus Papers: All science is organized around "journals"and "conferences"??

2009-05-26T12:08:00.000-07:00

All science is organized around "journals"and "conferences".

In principle, the (laudable) goalis to generate and disseminate scientific information to us all.The decision about which articles and/or talksget into which journals and conferences is made byunbiased expert "referees".

Sounds great, but let's examine howthis actually works in practice.REFEREESFirst of all, 80% of all referees are idiots and 100% are amateurs.
By "idiot" I mean, either way too lazy to do a good job, or incompetent, or too biased due to some goofy agenda to judge the work unbiasedly(in roughly descending order of frequency),and in any of these cases, their effect is essentially that of tossing a coin.

In the remaining 20% of cases, let us say that the refereeis good and makes the right decision. In that case, the effect of anyone referee is a 60-40 biased coin toss.

In that case, if you have3 independent referees (which is common, although in some cases they use fewer) the probability is .4^3 = .064 > 1/16 that a unanimous wrongdecision is made.

Thus, you can publish essentially ANY garbage (especially in the thousand of IEEE Spamferences) if you simply keep re-submitting and have enough patience (and political skills probably help, e.g. being friendly with editors).

Note that on average 1 out of every 16 garbage submissionsleads to a unanimous acceptance decision, so if you submit and re-submita total of up to 8 times, the probability is >50% you'll get it published.It is considered unethical to keep resubmitting, and especiallyunethical to submit simultaneously to more than 1 journal,since these tactics overload the (already busted) system. Thisethical notion makes sense to me.

Unfortunately there is essentially no way todetect or (especially) enforce these ethics and I believe (and haveheard several scientists simply tell they do it and I should) theseunethical methods are simply standard methodology for many scientists.Indeed I have encountered several cases where apparently somebody slipped upin their tricks so that almost-verbatim copies of the SAME articlegot published in more than 1 journal roughly at the same publication time (which definitely is unethical; every published article is supposed to beNEW original research, aside from articles that clearly are reviews).

On the other hand, if you wrote an excellent paper, then the probabilityis still quite considerable that it will be rejected. Each rejection or acceptance can easily require years due to thepresence of super-slow referees (remember, all refereesare amateurs, i.e. unpaid volunteer do-gooders withzero accountability, indeed whose identities are kept secret!).Indeed in maybe 50% of all submissions, the journal simply apparentlyloses the paper (or something) and no rejection or acceptance ever comes back to the author. Ever.
You get a slip acknowledging receipt of thearticle, but that is all you ever get.

Note the expected number of submissions for an excellentpaper before it gets accepted unanimously is 1/(.6^3) = 4.6. Thusif you are ethical you could easily wait 10 years even before even beingable to publish an excellent paper. If you do not have the luck, patience,organization (and political skills?) necessary for this - merely theethics - then you aren't going to be very successful at publishingeven if your science is superb.The entire referee system is a non-working anachronism from the Victorian Ageof Noble Rich Dilettante Do-Gooders.

It is sort of like the asininenotions of "Amateurism" in athletics which are FINALLY being scrapped(e.g. the Olympics) after over 100 years. As science became bigger and becamean enterprise of numerous professionals rather than few amateurs, this systembecame incapable of doing the job, but everybody refused to admit it.

The resulting cost to society has been, and continues to be,absolutely immense.
MERE ANECDOTES?All the above numerical figures are based on my experienceas a professional scientist. However, my opponents couldattack them as merely my biased special anecdotal claims.To respond to that, consider the following study [PLACE CITE HERE LATER]:The authors of the study took 18 random already-published scientificpapers, changed the authors and titles, and sent them in to thesame journal as submissions, in all cases within a few years oftheir publication date (thus the articles were still reasonably up to date).Result: 16 of the 18 got rejected. (In 0 cases was the plagiarism detected.) I think this study totally supports my "anecdotal" conclusions from my personal experience, don't you? Case closed.JOURNALSMany are exceedingly overpriced. Often they adopt two-tier pricing systemswhere "libraries" have to pay an enormous rate (such as $20000 per yearper journal!?) while certain individuals pay a far smaller rate(otherwise none would buy it).

This combined with the vast proliferationof journals means few libraries can afford the cost. The result is thefailure of the whole mission of journals in the first place. The outrageousprices (which also vary by vast amounts from journal to journal;

Elsevier journals have particularly outrageous prices seem particularlyhard to understand since many scientist-authors now do their own computer typesetting, and the editing and refereeing costs are usually free (done by volunteer amateurs). Many journals have reams of "for show" editors who are selected because putting their names on the masthead makes the journal "look prestigious" -but those "editors" actually do no work.

Example: Turing Award Winnerand famous scientist Robert Tarjan told me he was a for-show editoron numerous journals and he'd finally decided to tell them all to removehis name - although he was primarily concentrating on getting thejournals which actually made him do work, to remove his name first!If you send your submission to some of those prestigious "editors" you can be in for an especially high probability your submission ends up inlimbo land - never accepted or rejected! (In my experience, this happened100% of the time I submitted to a non-chief editor, since at thatyoung and naive stage in my life I had not realized that only the CHIEFeditor is for real and should actually be submitted to, despitewhat the journal submission policy and masthead may say.)
CONFERENCES
Since journals are so screwed up (and they seem especially screwed up in fast-growing fields such as Computer Science, as opposed to say, physics,perhaps because everybody has been too rushed to get a semblance of professionalism going) many subfields of science (especially computer science) have instead become reliant on conferences. Conferences usually have far shakier standards of "refereeing" than journals(which already are pretty shaky!) and often lie by pretending tohave more refereeing than they in fact do have (in an effort to appear more "prestigious").Example: A too-typical "scientific" conference was VIDEA'95 organised by the Wessex Institute of Technology. (VIDEA = "Visualization and Intelligent Design in Engineering and Architecture", '95 is the1995 incarnation.) The fact that in this case the emperor had no clothes wasexposed by Werner Purgathofer, Eduard Groeller, and Martin Feda(Institute of Computer Graphics, Technical University of Vienna).

Previously, one of them had accepted the role of "member of the programcommittee" for VIDEA'93 and noted that (a) he received exactly zeroabstracts and zero papers to review, and (b) was never informed about anyprogram committee meetings nor of any reviewing results. So for VIDEA'95, these 3 generated and submitted 4 bogus papers withvarying degrees of hilarity (in one case the "call for papers"was submitted AS a paper, in another they"took a dictionary of information processing words and selectedrandomly some 40 phrases from there and joined them togetherto a fantastically technical sounding text."

All four were then "reviewed and provisionally accepted"! Their conclusion was: "VIDEA accepts EVERYTHING!" At that point the only remaining requirement for their 4 nonsensepapers to be published in the Elsevier proceedings ("high-quality books") wasthat the authors pay a "registration fee" (these fees often are $600 per paper). Oho, now we see the motivation...Wessex Institute of Technology also does 25 other conferences whichPurgathofer, Groeller, and Feda now suspect are also a joke.

Personally I think this kind of thing is quite typical of many ofthe high-volume low-quality conferences out there.At the other end of the scale, let us consider theallegedly highest quality conferences out there, which inTheoretical Computer Science means the SFOCS "Symposiumon Foundations of Computer Science" and STOC "Symposium onTheory of Computing" annual conferences. I've heard a professionalcomputer scientist say "Journal publications do not matter.Only FOCS and STOC papers matter." Careers can rest on publicationsin these conferences, which supposedly have a high rejection rate, andare refereed, thus assuring high quality. Oh? Really? Actually, for manyyears, the only "refereeing" you'd get back was a number from 1 to 5, as opposed to a referee's report.

Indeed often this was condensed into 1 bit,rather than 1 number! Oh yeah. We can be sure a lot of consideration went into that. And indeed various well known completely wrong FOCS and STOC papers were published, although it was much rarer for anybody to ADMIT that(the first ever example I saw where it actually was admitted was again a paper by the admirable Tarjan, who in the next conference published a retraction [R.E. Tarjan, C.J. Van Wyk: Correction to ``A Linear-TimeAlgorithm for Triangulating Simple Polygons''.

SFOCS 1987 page 486]perhaps in a failed effort to convince the rest of the conferenceauthors to be equally responsible - since apparently this was the first such retraction in about 20 years of these conferences). In fact, once when I was a referee and wrote a long referee report for a paperI cared about, the editor (Valerie King) REFUSED even to GIVEmy report to the paper authors, saying "I don't want a report. I want anumber from 1 to 5."

I then had to bypass her and send it tothem directly. I complained to the conference's editor-in-chief about this but nothing came of it. Also, once, after my paper was rejected (this was back when I was a grad student) with of course zero explanation, I luckily managed to get some verbal explanation of the reason bytalking to a Committee Member. It was:"Oh, well, somebody said this was all basically done before by Lovasz,so we rejected it." So then I said "But - Lovasz was the professor who advisedme to submit this paper!"

A typical scenario - the judgementsare based largely on vague rumors. Another amusing case demonstratingthe importance of being in the politically "in group" and the shallownessof the acceptance considerations was by my friend Bruce Maggs.He was in his advisor's (Leiserson, MIT) office one day.Advisor: "Well Bruce, I just was at the Program Committee Meeting for SPAA andthere was considerable debate about whether to accept your paper. The goingwas tough, but finally, I managed to ram it through. You are In."Bruce: "That's great doc, and I appreciate it a lot. But... I never submitted a paper."Nowadays these 2 conferences actually do send back actual reports (sometimes)although sometimes you still get nothing back, and more often than notthe reports are just 1 useless hastily written paragraph. IndeedI recently submitted 3 papers to one of these conferences, result:2 rejects and 1 accepted. I wrote to the editor saying inall 3 cases the judgement should have been reversed(!)documenting my reasons. I concluded the reasons for the errors werea combination of stupidity, low quality, zero referee accountability, andpolitical biases both pro and con (e.g. in one case the single referee, whoseidentity was obvious, found it very convenient for his career if my paper criticizing a certain approach, would just vanish. In the case wheremy paper which contained numerous errors and unsupportable hype,was accepted, it was politically inconvenient for it to be rejectedfor reasons of a similar but opposite kind.).
JUNKETSAs far as I can see, conferences are not good ways to disseminateinformation. Often authors are forced to talk for 20 minutes at most -and that is in the GOOD conferences like FOCS & STOC; in someconferences I have seen time limits below 10 minutes. This is a joke.In some conferences there are hundreds of such micro-talks. What percentageare you going to get anything from?One is supposed to fly 1000s of miles, consuming 100s of gallonsof irreplaceable petroleum (more than the annual per capita consumptionof average people in the world - each such flight is thus costingsome average world inhabitant over a year worth of the economicbenefits of gasoline) and the benefit that results is: a 10-minute talk??!

You get far more information by reading the paper in the proceedingsrather than seeing the talk.This is the communication age: The telephone; internet; Email; computerizedsearch tools to find just the paper you need to find. In such an age,it is scientifically and morally unsupportable to have most ofthese conferences. The real reasons many of them exist is NOT their scientific value, but
(a) insane holdovers from past ages,
(b) bean counting based promotion decisions causing pressure to "publish",
(c) opportunity by scientists to abuse their funders or employers to get free junkets to faraway places in the guise of "working".
(d) The conference organizers pocket hefty fees (over $600 per participant easily). The airlines and hoteliers are also happy of course...Only people who should be unhappy are the granting agencies and employers(and taxpayers), but they are manned by scientists who are in on the junkets too, so they don't complain and the corrupt system cruises on.

There have been cases [e.g. the "Winter brain conference"]where conferences held at ski resort areas have beencancelled due to lack of snow. My colleague Kevin Lang actually witnesseda medical conference at such a ski resort. Rather than giving their talks,the MDs had pre-recorded the talks on videotapes (allegedly this allowedthem to present a better quality talk in less time, plus it gotrecorded that way - sounds like a good idea I guess), and they thenplayed the videos at the lecturns. Lang witnessed a case where anabsent lecturer was lecturing via videotape-player to an empty room - while all the MDs involved presumably cavorted on the ski slopes.SCIENTIFIC CAREERSAre often advanced or stalled by boards who mainly utilize"bean counts" (publication counts) as their decision making tool,as opposed to actually trying to READ one's papers (that would requirework). Thus the pressure to publish can be immense, leadingto a giant proliferation of garbage publications,a trend toward more papers with fewer ideas, overloading of the busted system,and encouraging non-ethics. I believe bean-count is anti-correlated to ethics.The fact that most of these boards are mainly populated by coprolitescauses any consideration of the idea that maybe, just maybe, somethingis screwed up about the current system of Journals, Conferences, Referees,bean counts, Zero Accountability, and 100% Amateurism, to be dismissed. That in turn prevents any reform of the system.

HOW TO FIX THE SYSTEM:
1. Referee anonymity and consequent lack of accountability and responsibility has to be got rid of. Papers should beplaced on a web site like the xxx.lanl.gov site BUT submissions, andcomments, ref reports, and author responses to said reports, and rejections, should non-eraseably accumulateas attachments to it on the site. This also will make the tactic ofmultiple unethical submissions, visible.

2. I think if anything the anonymity should work in theother direction: refs should be named, author-identities should behidden from them.

3. Boards should actually (gasp!) read the scientist's work,which I believe they do not do, in general. (There even have been cases of scientists who enjoyed numerous promotions, including being grantedtenure, who in fact had zero publications, but listed a lot of fakepublications on their resumes. Evidently nobody actually went to thejournal "cites" in the resumes to actually read those "articles.")

If Boards plan to rely on bean counting, they could be replaced by my (non-scientist) sister, for a lot cheaper! This could be forced (or at least we could try) by making them make a report public reviewing that work.

4. Boards generally should be forced to operate in a non-secret mode (and all votes by them should be revealed vote-by-vote) and the evaluations and salaries of those they judge have to be made public so that info exists so that feedback and restoration-to-sanityforces become a possibility to try to at least have the possibility toget rid of incompetent board members, etc.All my attempts to make 1-4 happen have been failures, however.

The whole way refereeing is run (amateur volunteerism with zeroresponsibility) is a ludicrous way to run science.The whole journal system is obsolete and massively overpricedand fortunately may FINALLY be BEGINNING to collapse under its own weight,being replaced by web sites.

Note that web sites featuring a plethoraof unrefereed scientific papers actually in many ways have papersof HIGHER quality than do refereed journals:

(a) the papers can be searched by computer to find what you want,
(b) they can include data and programs no journal would publish (for space reasons)
(c) they could in future include actual software calculators, e.g. the reader fills in the blank with a number and out pop more numbers...
(d) the cites could be implemented as hyperlinks (including cites OF this paper by future papers, could be traversed both directions)
(e) accumulating positive and negative Comments and author Responses could be attached, ultimately having a referee-like effect far more accurate and severe than most actual refereeing ever is
(f) If the paper is bogus (as in MANY IEEE Conferences that you told me) this could eventually be revealed by an attached
Comment, preventing the paper from sitting around permanently as a trap waiting to destroy the work of some poor gullible graduate student or waste the time of some other reader.Meanwhile conferences show no sign of slackening - to the contrary.

Hindawi is a complete non-English bogus Commercial Company: Be aware of those academic criminals

2009-05-26T12:03:00.001-07:00

For those unfamiliar with what it is: Hindawi is a complete non-English bogus Commercial Company

Be aware of those academic criminals

Junk Conferences / Spam Conferences / Spamferences / Academic Scams. Junk Conferences / Spam Conferences / Spamferences / Academic Scams ( T.Kovacz)

2009-05-20T03:11:00.000-07:00

We received an email from
http://dominore.blogspot.com/2009/05/spamference-spamjournal-spamreviews.html
and we would like to write a post for the so called spamferences.
What is a spaference? What is a spamnal?

This post outlines the differences between good conferences, bad conferences and academic scams.

DEFINITION: Spamference is every conference that is promoted by Spam. The majority of IEEE conferences falls in this category.

DEFINITION: Spamnal is every journal that is promoted by Spam

http://dominore.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-am-freelance-journalist-who.html

DEFINITION: The purpose of conferences
Why would anyone organise a conference?

* To promote the exchange of ideas in a particular area
* To promote networking by researchers
* To generate funds for a non-profit organisation
* To focus attention on a particular area
* To promote the organisers' reputations
* To make a profit for the organisers

Why attend a conference?

* To learn about the area
* To interact with other researchers
* To add a publication to your CV
* To have a holiday somewhere nice

Most of the motivations above are generally altruistic, but the last two in each list are not. Promoting the organisers' reputations and adding to your CV are not necessarily bad; this is how academia works. However, these four motivations result in a lot of low-quality work being published.

Quality

If your motivation for attending a confernce is to have a holiday or to add (uncritically) to your CV the quality of the conference won't matter much. In contrast, if you attend for the other reasons quality is a major concern. Imagine attending a conference and not making any useful contacts or coming across any good ideas: you would not have not gained much!
You might still consider this conference worthwhile because you got a publication out of it. After all, having publications may help impress your supervisor or thesis examiners or potential employers. Publications will also help your career as a scientist: you will be more likely to get funding, to be promoted, to attract students, to be invited to give talks and so on. However, quality is vital and there is a huge range in the quality of conferences and journals. These days it's possible to get anything published. In fact, in the famous SCIgen affair a computer-generated nonsense paper was accepted by a conference. As a result, publications in themselves mean little; what matters is their quality. In fact, if you publish in low-quality conferences, or, worse, junk conferences, you will find this hurts your reputation more that it helps.

Spam and junk conferences
A spam conference (or spamference) is one which is advertised with junk mail (spam). It is genuinely difficult to reach a large number of researchers in a particular area to advertise a conference, and some organisers of legitimate conferences are tempted into using junk mail. These conferences tend, however, to be lower quality ones, or new (or one-off) events which need to boost their attendence in this way. Well-established, high-quality conferences are well-known in their area and don't need to resort to junk mail. These are the conferences which count most on your CV.

The conferences which send the most junk mail tend to be junk conferences, which have little or no academic value and are only run to make a profit for the oraganisers. Some researchers participate to get a free holiday and a publication but others participate in good faith, not realising the nature of the event. The point of this page is to ensure that you are not one of hem.

Where the money goes

Most conferences charge a fee for attendance which is put toward the cost of running the event. Some events also raise money for a non-profit organisation with which they are affiliated. The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence is an example of such an organisation, and it is a legitimate one, although I don't know whether fees from their conferences contribute to the association.
Some conferences, especially larger ones, subcontract some of the non-academic organisational work. Many conferences, however, are organised entirely by volunteers, although there may be concessions to the main organisers such as free registration. Invited speakers generally get free registration, a contribution toward travel costs, and possibly an honorarium (a small payment). The details of these arrangements are not usually publicised and there is the potential for dubious use of funds, but as each incarnation of a particular conference series is generally organised by different people each year it is difficult for misuse of funds to persist.

Although I see no reason why for-profit conferences cannot be of good quality there are a number of junk conferences which are run solely for profit, and where the quality of work is given little or no consideration.

Warning signs
* Here are some warning signs but note that bona fide conferences may show some of these warning signs; in particular many reputable conferences are held in nice places.

1) The conference is advertised using spam
(The IEEE Spam Conferences have this sign)

2) The conference has the same chair every year. (Bona fide conferences may have the same people on an executive committee for many years, but probably not the same chair.)
(The IASTED Conferences have this sign)

3) The call for papers emphasises repeatedly that it is a "reputable" conference with many "famous experts"
(The IEEE Spam Conferences have this sign)

4) The call for papers, and subject of the conference, is very general
(The IEEE Bogus Conferences have this sign)

5) The chair has chaired dozens of other conferences but probably has few good publications and does not work at a reputable institution

6) Many logotypes (IEEE, etc...) exist on the leaflet or on the web site

7) The conference is in a very nice place
Many Conferences have this bad sign

You are invited by a stranger to organise a special session (even in an IEEE Conference) or to undertake some other activity for the conference which would normally require some stature in the area, when you in fact do not have this stature.

For example if you are a PhD student it's unlikely you will be asked by a stranger to take a high-profile role. Having said that, invitations to serve on a programme committee are not that uncommon or that high-profile, and advertising for special session proposals is fine as long as they're not automatically accepted.

Open access journal scams (Fortunately the IEEE journals: The IEEE Transactions ARE NOT in this category)

Recently open-access journals have begun to appear. These journals provide free access to readers on the web and charge authors to publish. This is a big improvement over the traditional model of subscribing to journals since it makes results freely available to all. However, it allows for a new type of scam.

In August 2008 I was invited to join the editorial board of a journal, which is normally quite an honour. I work in the area of the journal but didn't recognise the editor and decided to check him out on the web before replying. It soon turned out this was an open access journal scam, which was new to me. The "publisher" was in fact a single individual at a private address who was attempting to recruit academics to serve on his various editorial boards in an attempt to make them look legitimate and so attract others to the editorial boards and to submit papers. This is what a major publisher does when setting up a new journal, but a major publisher has the resources to do this properly (remember the section on quality!). This individual appeared to be working on his own and apparently is not affiliated with any insitution and doesn't even have a degree. This is something like trying to pass yourself off as a doctor without having gone to medical school.

References:
1) via the web the article:
Junk Conferences / Spam Conferences / Spamferences / Academic Scams. Junk Conferences / Spam Conferences / Spamferences / Academic Scams
of Tim Kovacz. October 2008.
2) http://scamieee.blogspot.com/
3) http://anti-ieee.blogspot.com/
4) http://dominore.blogspot.com/2009/05/spamference-spamjournal-spamreviews.html
5) http://dominore.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-am-freelance-journalist-who.html

What the hell is a "IARIA" anyway.

2009-05-12T02:35:00.000-07:00

What the hell is a "IARIA" anyway. This is academic spam. It should be treated like any other kind of spam. I love this story. I am sick of unsolicited emails inviting me to conferences I might be (or usually am not) interested in going to.
And sick of the emails informing me of the good news that the deadline for submission has been extended due to popular demand (oh yes?). This mob are one of the worst. What the hell is a "IARIA" anyway.

This is academic spam from IEEE and IARIA (child of IEEE, expert in fake conferences). It should be treated like any other kind of spam. Unsolicited invitations to conferences are just as bad as unsolicited invitation to take out a loan, inform me of the result of the Lottery Winners or obtain cheap software. Looking at my spam box I see I've got one entitled "we want you not your money. That sounds like a conference - only they really are after your money. As for the excuse - that it had been accepted without review as the reviewers were late and it would be unfair to reject it - I don't believe a word of it. Right on to the MIt students. The research paper was clearly the work of experts. It had a long, baffling title and its authors were familiar with key topics such as "simulated annealing" and "flexible modalities". Submitted to the IARIA
a computer science event to be held in Florida in July, it was promptly selected for presentation. There was just one problem: it was complete gibberish. A random collection of charts, diagrams and obtuse lines such as "We implemented our scatter/gather I/O server in Simula-67", it was generated by a computer program written by three Massachussetts Insitute of Technology students.

Rob Thomas: Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy, 2005 for IEEE WMSCI (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen )Mathias Uslar's paper was accepted to the IEEE IPSI-BG conference
http://www.mwise.de/blog/index.php/2005/12/29/scigen-for-scientific-research-a-case-study/

Professor Genco Gülan published a paper in the 3rd International Symposium of Interactive Media Design
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/blog/index.php?entry=entry060414-130910

Students at Iran's Sharif University of Technology
http://ce.sharif.edu/~ghodsi/soft-group/misc/AMC-paper.pdf
published a paper in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation (which is published by Elsevier). The students wrote under the false, non-Persian surname, MosallahNejad, which translates literally as: "from an Armed Breed". The paper was subsequently removed when the publishers were informed that it was a joke paper
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TY8-4N987X7-K&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=2f32e7e7caacf32704c05c2d0d6cd13a

Also except the IEEE junk conferences, the Conferences of Wessex Institute of Technology
are considered absolutely junk conferences. Look for example this link:
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp/videa.html

It seems also that the IEEE IARIA Conference accepted another bogus paper: http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-have-letter-of-acceptance-fantastic.html
A paper titled "Towards the Simulation of E-Commerce" by Herbert Schlangemann got accepted as a reviewed paper at the "International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering" (CSSE) and was briefly in the IEEE Xplore Database
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/freesrchabstract.jsp?arnumber=4723109&k2dockey=4723109@ieeecnfs

The author is named after the Swedish short film Der Schlangemann. Furthermore the author was invited to be a session chair during the conference
https://sites.google.com/site/herbertschlangemann/Home/csse2008_program.pdf?attredirects=0

Read the official Herbert Schlangemann Blog for details
http://diehimmelistschoen.blogspot.com/

The official review comment: "This paper presents cooperative technology and classical Communication. In conclusion, the result shows that though the much-touted amphibious algorithm for the refinement of randomized algorithms is impossible, the well-known client-server algorithm for the analysis of voice-over- IP by Kumar and Raman runs in _(n) time. The authors can clearly identify important features of visualization of DHTs and analyze them insightfully. It is recommended that the authors should develop ideas more cogently, organizes them more logically, and connects them with clear transitions"

In 2009, the same incident happened and Herbert Schlangemann's latest fake paper "PlusPug: A Methodology for the Improvement of Local-Area Networks" has been accepted for oral presentation at another international computer science conference http://www.ieee-ecommerce.com/

Recently, Denis Baggi, Chairman, IEEE CS confessed, according to a comment on the Schlangemann Blog, that "Selection criteria such a refereeing etc. are meaningless", probably means that IEEE has accepted the unreliability and bogosity of its conferences. Denis Baggi also adds: "Articles should be written only if someone has something to tell others, in which case the validity of the paper is obvious".

Criticism concerning publishers

Recently, many fake papers appeared in several IEEE conferences, because the IEEE grants its name and its logo to many local organizers who supposedly do not conduct a thorough review process. It is being argued that such conferences only exist to make money out of researchers that are looking for a simple way to publish their work, in particular publishers like IARIA, http://www.iaria.org, HIGHSCI http://www.highsci.org and SRP http://www.scirp.org appear questionable. As seen from their web sites, IARIA, HIGHSCI and SRP use the name of IEEE and the IEEE publishing services, thus attracting numerous papers. Some people to test some conference go further and sent the paper "A Statistical Method For Women That Can Help Our Sexual Education" in the IEEE Conference organized by IARIA. This paper received automatic acceptance within a few hours with simultaneous "command" of direct payment. Unfortunately this paper was not published because the authors did not pay the registration fee. However the letter of acceptance is published on the web and anybody can check it: http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/, http://scamieee.blogspot.com/

What a Shame really for the IEEE organizers!

2009-05-07T04:20:00.001-07:00

I received much spam from the following conference
which is absolutely crappy and dishonest.

This conference is also a Shame for the IEEE, because accepted 2 bogus papers
"Schlangemann" and other 2 from SCIgen MIT Machine

What a Shame really for the IEEE organizers!
=========================================

Dear Colleague,

The 2nd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing
(CISP 2009) and the 2nd International Conference on BioMedical
Engineering and Informatics (BMEI 2009) will be jointly held in
Tianjin, China, from 17 to 19 October 2009. We cordially invite you
to submit a paper and/or an exhibition.

Selected best papers will appear in SCI-indexed journal(s). The papers
published in the proceedings will be included in the IEEE Xplore
and submitted to Ei Compendex for indexing (CISP 2009 IEEE Catalog
Number: CFP0994D; BMEI 2009 IEEE Catalog Number: CFP0993D). CISP’09-
BMEI’09 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Engineering in Medicine
and Biology Society.

Tianjin is one of the four municipalities in China. It is a financial
and commercial center in North China and is known for its numerous
travel resources and rich history, such as the Huangyaguan Great Wall,
Dule Temple, Panshan Mountain and Food Street. It takes only 30 minutes
to travel between Tianjin and Beijing by high-speed train.

The registration fee of US$420 includes lunches, dinners, and banquet.
The previous CISP'09-BMEI'09 attracted over 2600 submissions from more
than 30 countries.

CISP'09-BMEI'09 aims to provide a high-level international forum for
scientists and researchers to present the state of the art of
multimedia, signal processing, biomedical engineering, and biomedical
informatics.

For more information, visit the conference web page:

http://www.tjut.edu.cn/cisp-bmei2009

If you have any questions after visiting the conference web page,
please email the secretariat at cisp2009@tjut.edu.cn

Join us at this major event in historic Tianjin !!!

With best regards,

CISP'09-BMEI'09 Organizing Committee

P.S.: Kindly forward to your colleagues or students who may be
interested.

From the Site: http://www.anti-plagiarism.org

2009-01-21T04:44:00.001-08:00

From the site: http://www.anti-plagiarism.org
we have copied this information:

As you can see the following conferences are in the BLACK LIST:

BLACK LIST of Conferences and Journals

1. Any International Conference organized and any Journal issued IASTED. Many papers in the IASTED conferences were ridiculous caricatures, years ago before the MIT papers’ engine appeared. In 1987, as you remember two Professors from a small university in Japan, riduculed Dr. M. Hamza and IASTED. The anti-plagiarism.org tested the IASTED by sending to them 3 randomly generated talks and — unfortunately they have been accepted in IASTED Conferences. It is also well known that IASTED, Dr. Hamza, is a profit making company.

IASTED people (Dr. Hamza –the Chief, Dr. Uskov, Dr. Bourkas, Dr. Angel De Pobil) bomb us with thousand of emails (SPAM) each week.

See the links

a. IASTED for Profit Making -1

b. IASTED for Profit Making -2

c. IASTED for Profit Making -3 (Black List of Professors- IASTED Staff) d. IASTED for Profit Making -4

e. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen

f. http://anthony.liekens.net/index.php/Misc/FakeConferences

g. http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002067.html

j. http://3dpancakes.typepad.com/ernie/2005/04/sci_followup.html

k. http://www.scs.cs.nyu.edu/~dm/remove.pdf

l. http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/

2. Any International Conference organized by WESSEX INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY that means any International Conference organized by “Prof. Carlos Brebbia”. The papers of Professor Carlos Brebbia have been checked from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria and they are fraud- papers. See the links below. For the terrific academic frauds and lies of “Prof. Carlos Brebbia”, see:

a. http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp/videa.html

b. http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp/videa-paper-2.html

c. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen

3. Any International Conference organized and any Journal issued by GESTS that means any International Conference organized by “Myungjin BAE”.

People from MIT have tested them also. Also Martin Ziegler have tested them. See this link. The anti-plagiarism.org tested also the GESTS Conferences by sending to Myungjin Bae two pseudo-papers from the MIT pseudo-papers’ generator http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen and Myungjin Bae has accepted each of them immediately with “warm congratulations”.

Totally: 6 different cases of false papers and they published all !!!

Myungjin BAE uses also some names like K.Y. Lee, H.S. Hong, J.A. Choi and J.H. Lee. We do not think that these names exist really. The only real name is Myungjin BAE. The names K.Y. Lee, H.S. Hong, J.A. Choi and J.H. Lee are simply nick-names of Myungjin BAE and of his GESTS. For the terrific academic frauds and lies of Myungjin BAE, i.e. “Prof. Bae”, see:

a. gests.htm

b. http://anthony.liekens.net/index.php/Misc/FakeConferences

c. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen

d. http://www.inesc-id.pt/~aml/trash.html

e. www.ece.ubc.ca/~phillipj/blog/archives/2005/05/paper_accepted.html

4. Any International Conference organized and any Journal issued by IPSI. That means any International Conference organized by “Prof. Veljko Milutinovic”. Veljiko Milutinovic has accepted 5 stupid papers from the MIT papers’ generator machine. 2 of them was sent by www.anti- plagiarism.org and other 3 by: Mathias Uslar, Vincenzo Della Mea, Teemu Hukkanen. See this link. The anti-plagiarism.org tested also the IPSI Conferences by sending to Veljko Milutinovic 2 pseudo-papers from the MIT generator for pseudo-papers http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen and Veljko Milutinovic accepted each of them (2 different cases of false papers). Totally for these fakes conferences we known that they have accepted 5 randomly generated papers from the MIT machine. For the terrific academic frauds and lies of “Prof. Veljko Milutinovic”, see:

a. http://anthony.liekens.net/index.php/Misc/FakeConferences

b. http://www.inesc-id.pt/~aml/trash.html

c. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen

5. Any International Conference organized and any Journal issued by the so-called “International Society of Computer Science” We have tested these sin guys by sending 3 pseudo-papers also to them.

They accepted after 1 (one) day and sent us immediately instructions of how to send them our money (registration) to Turkey. Another person that tested them was: Raul Soff .See this link. This company is located in Turkey, but they have made terrific frauds also and several universities in Europe, Asia and USA added them in a black list. Now, they changed the name of their scam to “International Society of Computer Science” and “International Journal of Computer Science” because as “Enformatika” they could not sell any longer. Be aware of the pseudo-conferences of the turkish company: Enformatika.

See:

a. http://anthony.liekens.net/index.php/Misc/FakeConferences

b. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen

c. http://www.inesc-id.pt/~aml/trash.html

6. Any International Conference organized by the so called Academy of Science of Hamid R. Arabnia. That means any International Conference organized by “Hamid R. Arabnia”.

Hamid Arabnia organizes 28 conferences simultaneously without reviewers and send thousand of emails (spam) to people that start:

“Congratulations! Your papers have been accepted” without having sent any paper to him. Who check the quality of these conferences?

Hamid Arabnia was one of the first that checked for his fake papers from MIT papers’ engine. Of course, the test from the anti- plagiarism.org in the case of Hamid Arabnia was … positive. He accepted 2 stupid papers with big honors!

For the terrific academic frauds and lies of “Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia”, see:

a. http://www.csam.ucl.ac.be/~gevers/

b. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen

c. http://www.inesc-id.pt/~aml/trash.html

This is the shame for IEEE

2009-01-02T06:03:00.000-08:00

What is the Review Process in IEEE Conferences

See:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Software-Generated+Paper+Accepted+At+IEEE+Conference

Learn how does the IEEE accept papers from here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen
or read the following lines

Fake papers in many IEEE Conferences
This is an example:

It is time to learn how fake is the IEEE: IEEE = money driven society

Learn this story:

A paper titled "Towards the Simulation of E-Commerce" by Herbert Schlangemann
got accepted as a reviewed paper at the
"International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering"
and iswas for more than one month available in the IEEE Daya base:
IEEExplore. What a shame really for the IEEE!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__BdBhWeXpd0/SVU3GmeBm8I/AAAAAAAAABA/8xTsf0Oz2AU/s1600-h/IEEE_guest.png

Read the official Herbert Schlangemann Blog for details

http://diehimmelistschoen.blogspot.com

Official review comment:

"This paper presents cooperative technology and classical Communication.
In conclusion, the result shows that though the much-touted amphibious algorithm for
the refinement of randomized algorithms is impossible, the well-known client-server
algorithm for the analysis of voice-over- IP by Kumar and Raman runs in _(n) time.
The authors can clearly identify important features of visualization of DHTs and analyze
them insightfully. It is recommended that the authors should develop ideas more cogently,
organizes them more logically, and connects them with clear transitions"

See also:
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp/videa.html

This is the truth

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/__BdBhWeXpd0/SVU3GmeBm8I/AAAAAAAAABA/8xTsf0Oz2AU/s1600-h/IEEE_guest.png

Later the IEEE replaced it
as follows
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__BdBhWeXpd0/SVqTz65ScWI/AAAAAAAAADM/BkixpqlL39A/s1600-h/IEEE_paper_removed.png

and later IEEE removed the bogus paper.
So, up to now more than 25 fake papers have been removed from IEEExplore

This is a shame for IEEE

Except WMSCI many fake papers appeared recently in several IEEE conferences,

2009-01-02T05:54:00.000-08:00

Except WMSCI many fake papers appeared recently in several IEEE
conferences, because the IEEE grants its name and its logo to many local
organizers that without any review process

http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com

without reading any of the submitted papers
http://anti-ieee.blogspot.com/

. It is being argued that such conferences only exist to make money out of
researchers that are looking for a simple way to publish their work

http://bogus-conferences.blogspot.com

Suddenly new publishers appeared like IARIA, http://www.iaria.org
and HIGHSCI http://www.highsci.org. As seen from their web sites, IARIA
and HIGHSCI use the name of IEEE and the IEEE publishing services, thus
attracting numerous papers. Some people to test some conference go further and
sent the paper "A Statistical Method For Women That Can Help Our Sexual
Education" in the IEEE Conference organized by IARIA.

This paper receive automatical acceptance within a few hours with simultaneus
"command" of direct payment. Unfortunately this paper was not published because
the authors did not pay the registration fees. However the letter of acceptance
is published on the web and anybody can check it:
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/

October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland

2008-02-15T00:31:00.001-08:00

October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland

The October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland is a series of topical conferences that are arranged each autumn by scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland. Each of the conferences is devoted to a single topic in astrophysics research, and is organized to elicit the free discussion of ideas.

The Conference is held at the University Conference Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

To subscribe to the electronic mailing list, send email to majordomo@atheena.gsfc.nasa.gov with the message subscribe maryland (your name).

2006: Radiation Backgrounds from the First Stars, Galaxies and Black Holes (October 9 - 11, 2006)
2005: Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era (November 29 - December 2, 2005)
2004: New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos (October 11-13, 2004)
2003: The Search for Other Worlds (October 13-14, 2003)
2002: The Emergence of Cosmic Structure (October 7-9)
2001: Two Years of Science With Chandra (September 5-7)
2000: Young Supernova Remnants (October 16-18)
1999: Cosmic Explosions (October 11-13)
1998: After the Dark Ages: When Galaxies Were Young (October 12-14)
1997: Accretion Processes in Astrophysical Systems: Some Like It Hot (October 13-15)
1996: Star Formations, Near and Far (October 14-16)
1995: Cosmic Abundances (October 9-11)
1994: Dark Matter (October 10-12)
1993: The Evolution of X-Ray Binaries.
1992: Back to the Galaxy.
1991: Testing the AGN Paradigm.
1990: After the First Three Minutes.

October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland

2008-02-15T00:31:00.000-08:00

FROM: http://professorsagainstplagiarism.blogspot.com/

October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland

The October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland is a series of topical conferences that are arranged each autumn by scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland. Each of the conferences is devoted to a single topic in astrophysics research, and is organized to elicit the free discussion of ideas.

The Conference is held at the University Conference Center at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

To subscribe to the electronic mailing list, send email to majordomo@atheena.gsfc.nasa.gov with the message subscribe maryland (your name).

2006: Radiation Backgrounds from the First Stars, Galaxies and Black Holes (October 9 - 11, 2006)
2005: Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era (November 29 - December 2, 2005)
2004: New Windows on Star Formation in the Cosmos (October 11-13, 2004)
2003: The Search for Other Worlds (October 13-14, 2003)
2002: The Emergence of Cosmic Structure (October 7-9)
2001: Two Years of Science With Chandra (September 5-7)
2000: Young Supernova Remnants (October 16-18)
1999: Cosmic Explosions (October 11-13)
1998: After the Dark Ages: When Galaxies Were Young (October 12-14)
1997: Accretion Processes in Astrophysical Systems: Some Like It Hot (October 13-15)
1996: Star Formations, Near and Far (October 14-16)
1995: Cosmic Abundances (October 9-11)
1994: Dark Matter (October 10-12)
1993: The Evolution of X-Ray Binaries.
1992: Back to the Galaxy.
1991: Testing the AGN Paradigm.
1990: After the First Three Minutes.

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BLACK HOLES

2008-02-15T00:30:00.001-08:00

A team of scientists compared leading theories of jets produced by rotating supermassive black holes with Chandra data. A sampling of nine giant galaxies that exhibit large disturbances in their gaseous atmospheres showed that the central black holes in these galaxies must be spinning at near their maximum rates.
"We think these monster black holes are spinning close to the limit set by Einstein's theory of relativity, which means that they can drag material around them at close to the speed of light," said Rodrigo Nemmen, a visiting graduate student at Penn State University, and lead author of a paper on the new results presented at American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.

The research reinforces other, less direct methods previously used which have indicated that some stellar and supermassive black holes are spinning rapidly.

According to Einstein's theory, a rapidly spinning black hole makes space itself rotate. This effect, coupled with gas spiraling toward the black hole, can produce a rotating, tightly wound vertical tower of magnetic field that flings a large fraction of the inflowing gas away from the vicinity of the black hole in an energetic, high-speed jet.

Computer simulations by other authors have suggested that black holes may acquire their rapid spins when galaxies merge, and through the accretion of gas from their surroundings.

"Extremely fast spin might be very common for large black holes," said co-investigator Richard Bower of Durham University. "This might help us explain the source of these incredible jets that we see stretching for enormous distances across space."

One significant connection consequence of powerful, black-hole jets in galaxies in the centers of galaxy clusters is that they can pump enormous amounts of energy into their environments, and heat the gas around them.

This heating prevents the gas from cooling, and affects the rate at which new stars form, thereby limiting the size of the central galaxy. Understanding the details of this fundamental feedback loop between supermassive black holes and the formation of the most massive galaxies remains an important goal in astrophysics.

Adapted from materials provided by Chandra X-ray Center, via EurekAlert!, a service of AAAS.

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2008-02-12T07:41:00.000-08:00

Thanks for informing us for your BLOG

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Prestigious unaccredited university

2008-02-07T14:41:00.001-08:00

by Vicky Phillips, CEO GetEducated.com, LLC

Earn your degree online from a prestigious unaccredited university!

"Prestigious unaccredited university?"

No such creature. Not online. Not anywhere. Accreditation is the highest mark of academic quality. Without accreditation a bogus online university can begin awarding degrees overnight. More than thirty bogus universities currently sell online degrees in the United States alone.

There is no reason to attend an unaccredited university online. Plenty of prestigious accredited universities are eager for your application. In 1989, when GetEducated.com began tracking accredited distance degrees, less than 50 were open to the public. That number now exceeds 750.

Why attend Bogus U. when Stanford, California State University, the University of Illinois, and the University of Maryland, among others, offer online degrees?

Before you enroll in a distance degree program, take the time to Get Educated � about distance learning degree mills.

What�s a Degree Mill?

Degree mills are bogus universities that sell college diplomas � the piece of paper itself rather than the educational experience.

A college degree is the second most expensive purchase people will make in their lifetime � second only to their home mortgage. Without a degree many career doors remain closed. For these reasons, the sale of bogus degrees has become big business.

GetEducated.com�s Top 10 Red Flags � Online Diploma Mills

Your chosen university is not accredited.
Your chosen university is accredited � but NOT by an agency recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation, http://www.chea.org. The majority of Internet degree mills are "accredited." Problem is they are accredited by bogus agencies that they themselves have created. These bogus accrediting agencies often have prestigious sounding names. Contact CHEA for the names of valid accreditors in the USA.
Admission criteria consist entirely of possession of valid Visa or MasterCard. Previous academic record, grade point average, and test scores are deemed irrelevant.
You are offered a college degree based on a "review" of your faxed resume. Credit for career experience is a valid option at many universities that deal with adult learners. But the process of evaluating career experience for college credit is complex. No valid distance learning university in the USA will award a graduate degree (Master�s or Doctorate) based solely on a review of career experience. Undergraduate programs are more flexible. Accredited undergraduate programs typically limit credit for experience to a maximum of 10 courses or 30 semester credits. (One year of a four-year degree.) One notable exception is Thomas Edison State College of New Jersey. This publicly-funded distance learning university makes it possible for adult learners, in theory, to earn Associate or Bachelor degrees entirely through career portfolios, military and corporate training, and challenge exams.
You are promised a diploma within 30 days of application regardless of your status upon entry. Degree mills are in the business of selling paper. Ergo, they�ll get that piece of paper to you as quickly as possible.
You are promised a degree in exchange for a lump sum � typically $2,000 for an undergraduate degree, $3,000 for a graduate degree. Universities do not commonly charge flat fees. They typically charge per credit or per course tuition and fees.
Your prospective online university has multiple complaints on file with the Better Business Bureau.
The BBB records consumer complaints about online degree mills. Visit the BBB online at http://www.bbb.org.
Your online "admission counselor" assures you that online universities can�t be accredited by CHEA recognized agencies.
This is a lie.
The school�s Web site either lists no faculty or lists faculty who have attended schools accredited by bogus agencies.
The university offers online degrees almost exclusively to United States citizens but is conveniently located in a foreign country, quite often a tiny nation that lacks any system of academic accreditation. Don�t be fooled by online degree and diploma mills. Many maintain impressive web sites. All of them advertise heavily online. Look beyond flashy graphics for the name of the school�s accreditation agency. Take the time to verify accreditation by an agency that is recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation.

WASHINGTON Today

2008-02-07T14:40:00.001-08:00

WASHINGTON (AP) — Politicians have finally found an issue they all can agree on: Telemarketers calling at dinnertime are a scourge that must be repulsed.

Congress on Wednesday sent to President Bush two bills that would make permanent a program to protect consumers from unwanted phone calls from telemarketers. Its hallmark is the national "do not call" list.

"This initiative has proven to be one of the most popular laws in history," said Rep. G.K. Butterfield, D-N.C. Extending the program was necessary "to avoid the wrath of millions of angry constituents."

The Do Not Call Registry, initiated in 2003, has been widely acclaimed for allowing Americans to eat their suppers in peace. Some 150 million people have listed their phones on the registry, which prohibits calls from telemarketers.

"I remember times we just used to take our phones off the hook," said Rep. Mike Doyle, D-Pa., a leader on the issue, recalling pre-registry days.

"Consumers without exception hate the annoyance of intrusive telemarketer calls at dinnertime," said Chris Murray, senior counsel for Consumers Union. "When nearly every American household has taken the time to register, that says something really strong."

Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, put it in political terms: "With a 10% approval rating it is incumbent upon us to continue to pass legislation that is indeed popular."

The House passed by voice vote and sent to the president a bill to make permanent the authority of the Federal Trade Commission to collect fees to run the program. "My legislation keeps the program free, simple and effective for consumers," said Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., sponsor of the Senate bill.

Telemarketers pay annual fees of up to $17,050 and must search the registry every month and drop from call lists the phone numbers of consumers who have registered.

The Congressional Budget Office said the fees will bring in $107 million over the next five years. Consumers can remove their numbers from the list at any time.

The Senate later approved by a voice vote and sent to the White House a bill, promoted by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., to make the list permanent, overturning an FTC rule that people re-register their phone numbers every five years. The FTC reasoned that re-registering would update the list to account for people who move and switch their phone numbers. Critics argued that the list is already scrubbed each month of numbers that have been disconnected and reassigned to new customers.

David Certner, legislative policy director at AARP, said that some 50 million phone numbers could be dropped off the list in September without a change in a rule that most Americans are unaware of. The FTC has given assurances it would wait for congressional action before eliminating any numbers.

The AARP has been active on the issue from the beginning, Certner said, both because seniors are more susceptible to telemarketer fraud and may not have the mobility to answer repeated calls. "For some seniors these calls are more than just a minor inconvenience."

Violating the Do Not Call Registry subjects telemarketers to civil penalties up to $11,000 per violation. Last November the FTC announced nearly $7.7 million in settlements with six companies accused of calling people on the list.

In all, said Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla., sponsor of the House's fee extension bill, the FTC has collected $25 million in civil penalties and relief for consumers.

Organizations engaged in charitable, political and survey work are exempt from the restrictions. Also, companies that have an established business relationship with a customer may call for up to 18 months after the last purchase, payment or delivery.

The pictures were disgusting,

2008-02-07T14:37:00.001-08:00

First runner-up Helen Salas will assume the title and compete at the 2007 Miss USA pageant on March 23 in Los Angeles.

The shocking photos came hot on the fashionable heels of a scandal that rocked reigning Miss USA Tara Conner. The pics show Rees exposing her breasts, passionately kissing other young women, and simulating oral sex with females and a male.

"The pictures were disgusting," Miss USA co-owner Donald Trump told Larry King on CNN Thursday night. "These pictures were pretty far out there and that is not representative of Miss USA. We had no choice but to terminate her."

Rees insists the raunchy behaviour in the photos was "an isolated incident."

In a statement, she said: "While I take full responsibility for the photographs, I want everyone to know the truth. This was by no means representative of who I was, who I am, or who I will become. I have no intentions to disgrace the state of Nevada, the Miss Universe Organization, or Mr. Donald Trump."

Rees believes it was unfair of pageant officials to strip her of her crown.

"I am very embarrassed by the situation. Regardless, such a brief and distant lapse in judgment does not warrant my loss of the title I worked so hard to achieve," she said in her statement.

Rees, 22, was crowned Miss Nevada in Las Vegas in October and was due to represent the state in the Miss USA pageant next spring.

Earlier this month, she was the guest of honour at a Special Olympics bowling tournament and last month attended an event for underprivileged children. But Rees showed off a much wilder side in the pictures, taken during a party in Tampa, Florida when she was 19.

Last Tuesday, Trump announced that hard-partying Miss USA Tara Conner - accused of underage drinking, drug use and promiscuous behaviour - was going to enter rehab but will keep her title.

Multi-Trillion Dollar FINANCIAL SCANDAL

2008-02-07T14:30:00.001-08:00

Multi-Trillion Dollar FINANCIAL SCANDAL

By David Podvin

MakeThemAccountable.com
2-4-2

"Immediately after business slave George W. Bush took power, Corporate America went on a lying spree. . . . Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings appear loath to report that such high profile companies as Viacom, General Electric, and Disney are also engaging in the accounting scheme. "

Missing The Overall

A multi-trillion dollar financial scandal is occurring in the United States right now. It threatens to inflict unprecedented carnage upon Corporate America and horrific damage to our national economy. The mainstream media is aware of it, but most Americans are not, because the corporate news outlets refuse to report on it.

It is not conspiracy.

It is complicity.

The coverage of the Enron situation has primarily focused on the disintegration of a powerful corporation due to the deceit and criminality of those who ran the company. The few reporters who have looked below the surface have proven linkage between Enronís corruption and its political connections to the Bush administration.

While the crimes of former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay and the collusion of former Texas governor George W. Bush are significant, the corporate media is selfishly choosing not to focus on the big story.

In February of 2001, Enron stock was trading above $80 per share, which placed a market value of more than $60 billion on the company. Today, the stock no longer trades, rendering Enron virtually worthless. It is crucial to remember that, despite the harrowing decline in its fortunes, the company never reported a bad earnings quarter.

Enronís duplicity is an extreme symptom of a financial cancer that threatens the health of the economy. The disease is a malignant accounting method that has received legal protection from conservative politicians on behalf of their corporate benefactors. It is called 'pro forma'. Originally intended to allow companies to compensate for extraordinary events that distorted their financial reports, the pro forma accounting method has led to the greatest fraud ever perpetrated.

Previously, publicly owned companies had been legally required to provide shareholders with an honest accounting of their earnings. The standard used was GAAP, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Under this method, a company would state its earnings based on the old fashioned equation of income minus expenses. Using pro forma, companies decide which expenses are ìrelevantî, thereby providing great latitude for creativity.

(GRAPH) S&P 500 GAAP EARNINGS AS A PERCENTAGE OF REPORTED EARNINGS Sources: Standard & Poor's, Thomson
financial /First Call

As shown above, immediately after business slave George W. Bush took power, Corporate America went on a lying spree. Freed from concerns about regulatory oversight, this countryís biggest companies became dramatically more ìcreativeî with their earnings reports. Current estimates for S&P 500 corporations are that they have collectively earned about $410 billion in 2001 when using the pro forma accounting method. However, when using GAAP, they have collectively earned about $240 billion.

Those who claim that Enron was an exceptional case are technically correct. While Enron overestimated its earnings by 100%, the average large publicly held American corporation is overestimating its earnings by only 42%.

IBM reports pro forma earnings. So does Intel. And Cisco Systems. And Dell. And Sun Micro. And Motorola. And Microsoft. And...

By engaging in such manipulation, with the assent of accountants and governmental oversight agencies, Corporate America has conned the public into investing trillions of dollars based on phony earnings. Cisco, for example, has used its artificially inflated stock price as capital to acquire other companies. Many corporate empires have been built on such accounting legerdemain, including General Electric (NBC), Viacom (CBS), Disney (ABC), AOL/Time Warner (CNN, Time Magazine), News Corporation (Fox), The Washington Post Company (Washington Post, Newsweek), the Tribune Corporation (Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times), and the New York Times Company (New York Times, Boston Globe).

Enron is the tip of an iceberg on which sits the entire mainstream media.

A national association of accounting firms has called on the Securities and Exchange Commission to require all publicly held corporations to report real GAAP earnings. The return to ethical accounting standards would mean that, in order to reflect the current valuation of the Dow Industrials, the average would fall to 5825. In order to reach the historical norm based on GAAP, the Dow would decline to 3300.

A major decline in stock prices would erase trillions of dollars of investors' wealth. With the uninformed public currently heavily invested in the market, this would have a crushing impact on the finances of the average American.

In 1995, Senate Republicans and almost half of their Democratic colleagues joined to override President Clintonís veto of legislation providing corporations with protection from shareholder lawsuits. The leader of the effort to dramatically reduce civil liability for companies that report phony earnings was Wall Street lobbyist Harvey Pitt, who has made a career of defending the shady dealings of stock market thieves like Ivan Boesky.

Just as his father hid the magnitude of the savings and loan scandal until after the 1988 election, Bush is desperately trying to obscure the truth about Corporate Americaís financial sleight of hand in order to defer the tumbling of the house of cards until after the 2004 campaign. He expects to be helped in this effort by the man he appointed to be Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the one who is most responsible for seeing that corporations accurately report their earnings.

Harvey Pitt.

The powers that be are pulling out all the stops.

What they are fighting is the law of gravity. As the high powered executives at Enron learned, all the political machinations in the world canít prevent a stock from falling when the word gets out that the books have been cooked. After investors discover theyíve been scammed, they sell, and the mightiest of companies can be crushed. Less than a year ago, Enron was the seventh largest corporation in America. Today, it is no longer functioning as a business entity. It is, for all intents and purposes, dead.

The greatest legacy of the Enron debacle will be increased public pressure on companies to report their real earnings. If corporations are forced to be honest, then there will be shocking revisions in the financial statements of Americaís most prominent businesses.

The current situation is ascandal of almost incomprehensible magnitude, but it is not a conspiracy. For years, the disgrace of earnings manipulation has been an open, dirty little secret. Dissidents like the highly respected money managers at Comstock Partners (http://www.comstockfunds.com/) and brokerage analyst Alan Newman (http://www.cross-currents.net/charts.htm) have been screaming bloody murder about how Corporate America is cheating the public.

Their voices have not been amplified. Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings appear loath to report that such high profile companies as Viacom, General Electric, and Disney are also engaging in the accounting scheme.

The current reported level of corporate earnings is a mirage. The investing public has been taken for a magic carpet ride. The deceit of management, now so evident in the case of Enron, is endemic in corporate boardrooms across America. It is the massive impending economic fallout from that bitter reality which is the looming tragedy in this story.

While the media continues to focus on the microcosm of corruption at Enron, the public at large has yet to be informed of the epidemic of the earnings lies. As Deep Throat told Bob Woodward during the Watergate SCANDAL when the reporter was focusing on the criminal behavior of Nixon functionary Donald Segretti, "You're missing the big picture. You're missing the overall."

"This thing involves everybody."

Sources:

Accounting For Options (item 3), Chetan J. Parikh, Capital Ideas Online, May 31 - June 13, 1999 Issue

S&P P/E 37?!?!, Carl Swenlin, AegeanCapital Inc., August 3, 2001

Earnings Report Parodies, Comstock Partners, Inc., October 11, 2001

Smoke and Mirrors, Comstock Partners, Inc., August 22, 2001

How we got into this corporate mess, Dan Gillmor, TheDailyCamera.com, December 24, 2001

Spin on tech financial results comes under more scrutiny, Scott Herhold and Mary Anne Ostrom, SiliconValley.com, January 31, 2002

Disney Profit Beats Forecasts, Clouds Remain, Bob Tourtellotte, Reuters, January 31, 2002

Enron: Could your stock be next?, Paul R. La Monica, CNNMoney, November 30, 2001î

"William Fleckenstein, president of Fleckenstein Capital, a money-management firm in Seattle that engages in short selling, says that General Electric is a company that fits this description. Although Fleckenstein is not shorting GE (GE: down $1.23 to $38.50, Research, Estimates), he says that investors would be wise to stay away from the stock because of all its moving parts -- a mish-mash of different businesses in several countries reporting in a variety of currencies. ëIt's literally impossible to know what's going on there," he says.

"In response to this criticism, General Electric spokesman David Frail says, ëGE is no more difficult to understand than AOL Time Warner (the parent of CNN/Money.com) or any other multi-business company." [So true.]

Viacom beats Street, CNNMoney, October 25, 2000

News Corporation Reports Double Digit Film Operating Income Growth in First Quarter, Business Wire, November 7, 2001

Notes to Consolidated financial Statements, The Washington Post Company, 2000 Annual Report

As predicted, second-quarter results grim for newspapers, Tara McMeekin, Newspapers & Technology, September 2001

Wider loss for AOL Time Warner, Tribune News Services, January 31, 2002


Comment

From Paul Ator 2-6-2

Please share these comments with Mr. David Podvin

Here is a close friend's take on your 1/31 rense.com article after I drew it to his attention. He is a senior Senate staff aide whom we've known over 50 years. My own views and concerns may be closer to yours than to his, but we would both greatly appreciate your response to those he expresses below.

Paul ___

The article is rather off-putting because of the name-calling hyperbole. GAAP has not been abolished. Although I am not an accountant, the use of "pro forma" reporting does not abolish basic accounting or reporting principles.

The name of the game in business is the same as the name of the game in your dealings with the IRS and others. There is a clear difference between tax avoidance (where you don't pay a nickel more than you have to) and tax evasion (where you don't pay the nickel you are required to pay). I suspect that what happened here is what happens in the tax area.

There is black, there is white, and there are a thousand shades of gray. If one is overly conservative, one is a fool--and quite possibly liable for shareholder suits if one stays employed by the corporation that long. If one is overly aggressive, one is a fool--ditto for the above, plus possibly going to jail.

There is a rather obsessive concern in the U.S. with showing constantly improving short-term results. A corporation is judged by the market too often not only on whether it quarterly earning increased, but whether they beat the "estimate". It's as if the investors have willfully suspended normal common sense and really believe that everything is going to get better every day in every way, when it comes to corporate earnings. The world, I believe, does not work that way.

In order to cater to this, however, a great premium is placed on presenting balance sheets and earnings reports in the most favorable light. When a bank establishes loan loss reserves, it has to anticipate (and constantly re-evaluate) the collectibility of its loan portfolio. That is affected by a number of things, including the overall state of the economy. The bank regulators press the banks to assume the worst case scenario (so they don't overstate earnings); the tax authorities challenge any increase in the loan loss reserve on the grounds that the bank is trying to under-report its income for tax purposes.

Expressed more generally, corporations that are competing for market capital (investors) want to present the most rosy picture they can legally get away with. To do so, one must enter the gray area. If, in fact, a liability (such as a borrowing) can be moved off the balance sheet by properly attributing it to another entity, that will improve the picture.

My suspicion is that Enron/Andersen/V&E simply pushed the envelope too far. Having been there, I can add that Andersen and V&E were competing a bit, too, in terms of whose analysis of the likely outcome were it to go to litigation taking into account the IRS's likely appraisal of litigation risk, etc. If one says, "this will not work" too often, the client, it is feared, will go somewhere else to find someone who is willing to sign a document that says "this will probably work", so everyone is working the edge of the penumbra.

I think the characterisation of Bush as a "business-slave" is shabby and not particularly analytical. All our Presidents are, to one degree or another, "business slaves" because if the economy goes to hell in a handbasket (and it is business that drives the economy) they, and the country with them, accompany the handbasket.

I find the Enron debacle sad and tedious. If even half of the allegations prove true, there were violations of law that are fully prosecutable under existing law. The spectacle of law makers each trying to be more "outraged" than the other is just pitiful. If either party can pin responsibility for this on the other side it will represent yet another triumph of marketing over substance.

It rather intrigues me that so many people get so much press coverage for attacking the big bad corporations. As a business organization, the corporate form is neither good nor bad, except in terms of the extent to which it accomplishes the purposes of chosing that organizational form over proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, etc. It really does rather smack of rallying the troops against the fearful (but nonexistant) bogeyman.

As to the charge, in the article, that GE's books are complicated, one can only respond that it is a complicated enterprise, like most other large, multinational corporations, and that complexity is dictated, for the greater part, by the complex web of laws of various jurisdictions with which it must comply. Furthermore, if, in the course of complying with those laws, GE's accountants and lawyers are able to find a way to improve its earnings in a way that increases its market value (so the stock goes up) or its dividends, I am personally delighted as a small investor in the company.

I do not believe that a return to some atavistic Walden Two/Looking Backward utopian societal organization would be better for the human race or me personally. Take a hard look at the international news (I watched a sequence on Antenne 2 tonight in which a thief's hand was amputated under Islamic law in Nigeria and a segment on DeutscheWelle concerning the continuing tribulations in Macedonia) and I don't think either of those places, seemingly devoid of the tribulations of having to cope with multinational corporate accounting problems, is a civilization in which I would want to live or to have my grandchildren grow up.

Good Morning.

2008-02-07T14:07:00.001-08:00

http://anti-plagiarism-org.blogspot.com/

I think that the http://anti-plagiarism.org has created this very nice blog, but
we believe that the main material of www.anti-plagiarism.org must be uploaded again on the web and the owners must ignore the IEEE treats!

Also, we have seen the site: http://wessex-institute.blogspot.com/
but the guys that maintain this site post announcements and after some days remove them. So, the site: http://wessex-institute.blogspot.com closes and opens from time to time.

NET DRIVER

New Frauds from IEEE at India: Fake IEEE Projects

The following IEEE Conference has accepted several SCIgen (fake) papers. The organisers sent letter of acceptance for the several fake (SCIgen) papers

IEEE uses again spam techniques to promote its fake conferences

Fake IEEE Multiconference

it is yet another IEEE fake conference

A new bogus multiconference from IEEE. Do not go to these fake IEEE Conferences. Be careful. The Scientific Credibility is ZERO

Avoid Fake IEEE. Do you think that we are not right when we try to reveal the fake conferences (mainly from IEEE)? See this web page. No need to comme

Apologies for cross-postings? or apologies for organizing fake conferences? or even Apologies for accepting SCIgen (software generated silly texts)

SIX FAKE CONFERENCES with the approval and sponsorship of IEEE! Random? We don't think so!!!

NEW FAKE IEEE CONFERENCES only in our site (i.e. http://bogusconferences.blogspot.com/ )

Next time that somebody will claim that he has many publications in IEEE,

EXTENDED PLAGIARISM by the LECTURER Dr. Nicola MORRISON, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Who others have accepted bogus texts in their fake activities

The organizer of this fake conference was the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

See what we found on the web: FAKE JOURNALS by Elsevier -- FAKE CONFERENCES by IEEE!

A useful update with a new confess for fake conference protection

Learn more about SCIgen Fake IEEE papers and Bogus IEEE Conferences

Prof. Petre Dini (owner of IARIA) continues discrediting and libeling other conferences

IEEE goes only for your money!!! "Without registration and payment of the registration fee, the paper will NOT be published in the proceedings!"

We received one more advertizement from a new Bogus Conference. Fortunately, they do not use the name of IEEE in vain

We strongly believethat many IEEE conferences are ... victims of SCIGEN.

IEEE and SCIGEN

One more BOGUS IEEE Conference!

http://low-quality-conference.blogspot.com/

Many Universities consider that many IEEE Conferences are garbage. Some of them consider that even in the IEEE Journals the review is ridiculous and h

Finally there are many web pages and blog speaking for the: fake IEEE papers

Mario Panini said and Dario Petri (IEEE Office replied). Mario sent me their correspondence.....

BOGUS PAPERS in ELSEVIER!!!!!!

WE RECEIVED THIS EMAIL: Prof. DARIO PETRI petri@ieee.org accepted the bad quality of IEEE Sponsored conferences

IARIA Bogus IEEE Conferences started again their criminal work

From the following blog http://bogus-conferences.blogspot.comwe took the following post:

The IARIA continuing its policy of absolutely non-reviewed articles and the IEEE publishes all the Proceedings with garbage papers of IARIA

The BOGUS IADIS Conferences sent us 6 different advertizements today. No possibility for unsubscribe!

An interesting post in another blog: IEEE Confess

Tuesday, 26 May 2009

BOGUS CONFERENCES (IEEE Confess)

2 comments:

The whole story

Many people protest for the bogus papers in IEEE

We have just found another Blog with similar ideas

ACADEMIC SPAM FROM BOGUS CONFERENCES

IEEE Bogus Papers: All science is organized around "journals"and "conferences"??

Hindawi is a complete non-English bogus Commercial Company: Be aware of those academic criminals

Junk Conferences / Spam Conferences / Spamferences / Academic Scams. Junk Conferences / Spam Conferences / Spamferences / Academic Scams ( T.Kovacz)

What the hell is a "IARIA" anyway.

What a Shame really for the IEEE organizers!

From the Site: http://www.anti-plagiarism.org

This is the shame for IEEE

Except WMSCI many fake papers appeared recently in several IEEE conferences,

October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland

October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland

BLACK HOLES

http://bogus-conferences.blogspot.com/

Prestigious unaccredited university

WASHINGTON Today

The pictures were disgusting,

Multi-Trillion Dollar FINANCIAL SCANDAL

Good Morning.

From the following blog http://bogus-conferences.blogspot.com
we took the following post: