Professors Against Plagiarism:
Plagiarism and the Web Revolution
Web Plagiarism has become an epidemic in academia largely as a result of the high precision and recall of the Google search engine and the huge volumes of intellectual property on the web.
According to the Northern Kentucky University (library.nku.edu) many students think that it is acceptable to “paraphrase” the works of others and they have one of the best definitions that I have seen:
Students anxious about committing plagiarism often ask:
"How much do I have to change a sentence to be sure I'm not plagiarizing?" A simple answer to this is: If you have to ask, you're probably plagiarizing. This is important.
Avoiding plagiarism is not an exercise in inventive paraphrasing. There is no magic number of words that you can add or change to make a passage your own.
Original work demands original thought and organization of thoughts.
As a retired Adjunct Professor Emeritus who makes my living selling my words I find plagiarism especially offensive. Plagiarism, by its very definition cannot be an accident, and it is an intentional act of theft. No amount of excuses or pleas of ignorance can exonerate a plagiarist from their fundamental dishonesty.
The Semantics of Plagiarism
As we have noted, the detection of plagiarism involves the stealing of “original work and thought”. Plagiarism can be subtle, and many students believe that they can change one or two words in a sentence and avoid detection. So, how do we detect the work of the sly plagiarist who replaces words with synonyms and alters the sentence structure?
· Synonyms – A reference to “House” could be changed to dwelling, abode, apartment, etc.
· Word Stems – A reference to “house” could be changed to housing, home, etc.
· Semantic Structure – Adverbs and adjectives can be replaced and altered to conceal the crime.
Fortunately, despite these attempts to hide their wrongdoing, the plagiarist is still detected thanks to sophisticated web tools and the world of applied Artificial Intelligence. Sophisticated software such as those found at Turnitin.com employ pattern matching algorithms that glean the “meaning of each phrase” and compare it to existing works on the Internet.
Let’s take a closer look at how this works. Software such as the Princeton Wordnet provides hierarchies of synonyms that can replicate the plagiarist’s attempts to conceal their theft. This author worked extensive with semantic networks and they can often lead to surprising results. Once, I entered a semantic search against a major legal database to see of any published court ruling had ever used the profane “F” word.
I ran the search using full synonym expansion and was surprised to find dozens of results, each with the highlighted word “Congress”. Confused, I consulted the semantic network and discovered that a “Congress” like the “F” word, is a union of two bodies!
Other web search engine companies are developing search tools that have the surprising side-effect of being able to detect plagiarism. Their goal is to allow web users to highlight a paragraph of text and press a button called “Show me more like this”.
Internally, these tools analyze the paragraph, apply structure, word stem and synonym rules, and scour the web for a suitable match.
The epidemic of web content Theft
According to a televised investigation report on the hit TV show Primetime Thursday, they found a growing problem of cheating and plagiarism, facilitated by the massive volumes of content on the web. From junior high schools to the Ivy League, Primetime found that students find the temptation to cit-and-paste from the web an irresistible temptation. According to the Primetime Thursday report, many students believe that “everyone” plagiarizes, and they use this as an excuse for their theft:
"It's unfair on your part, if you're studying, you know, so many hours for an exam and everybody else in the class gets an 'A' cheating," says Sharon, a college student.
"So you want to get in the game and cheat, too."
The web is a double-edged sword. Just as it has facilitated the theft of content, it has also enabled tools for publishers and professors to quickly detect stolen content. Let’s take a closer look.
Detecting Plagiarism
Fortunately, it’s just as easy for someone to detect plagiarism as it is for the scumbags to copy it off of other people’s web pages. There are several web sites that aid in detecting plagiarism.
· Amazon – The Amazon “search inside the book” feature has resulted in dozens of lawsuits for plagiarism as unscrupulous authors were caught within days of the introduction of the feature.
· Google – The Google search engine is used by almost all College professors today and the new Google Print facility is now indexing thousands of books into the Google engine.
· Turnitin.com – This wonderful web site is available to academics everywhere and provides instant web content matching for papers and College essays. (www.turnitin.com)
Now that the web has given us tools to detect the plagiarist, the threat of getting caught has acted as a deterrent. However, the punishments for the plagiarist can run the gamut from a slap-on-the hand to loss of
Professors Against Plagiarism:
A Question of Honor
Since I make my living selling my work, I have an intense hatred for those who steal the work of others. When I was a professor at a major state university I would always make sure that all of my students understood the difference between “fair use”, author attribution, and the seriousness of stealing the works of others and calling them your own.
The punishments for plagiarists are the most severe at schools that employ and enforce an honor code such as the U.S. military academies.
“We will not Lie, Cheat, Steal, nor Tolerate Among us those Who Do”
Please note that the honor code requires any student to turn-in any other student who they suspect of lying, cheating or stealing. This created a self-policing system to ensure personal honor and integrity.
John Garmany, a noted author with Rampant TechPress and a Graduate of West Point notes that the honor code made plagiarism virtually non-existent:
“We were well versed in plagiarism and we would never think of using someone else’s work without giving them credit.
An honor code violation meant dishonor and dismissal from West Point and we took it very seriously.
For example, we were allowed to ask another cadet for help, but we were required to mention the helper by name, even if we did not use any of their ideas directly”
Sadly, enforcement of web content theft is sporadic at best, even among the top schools.
Punishment for Plagiarists
In my experience as an Adjunct professor, plagiarism is largely tolerated at major U.S. colleges and universities, and I found it to be extremely frustrating.
I remember one case where a U.S. Military officer submitted a computer program that matched the work of another, line for line. Upon investigation I discovered that he had lifted someone else’s work from a trash bin and copied it, adding only his name, as the author.
I was especially offended because this officer was a graduate of a U.S. Military academy, and was completely familiar with the honor code and the ethics of an officer and a gentleman. Upon confrontation, he was completely unremorseful and gave the lame excuse “everyone does it”.
In this case I wanted to show no mercy, and I attempted to flunk the student and file a complaint against him with the university. I was fully aware that the Armed Forces would not be favorable to him, that he would loose his security clearance and could be summarily dismissed from the armed forces, perhaps loosing his retirement and most of all, his personal honor.
Unfortunately, the Dean of my College was far more tolerant than I was, and refused to allow me to pursue my complaint. To me, it seems that no threat of consequences enables the web thief.
Plagiarism, intentional or not, is considered stealing and can expose you to serious liability. In 2004 I was reviewing a job interview book and discovered an entire page that I had written which had been stolen and published by one of the world’s largest publishers. Fortunately for the publisher, I was also one of their authors, and I was familiar with their contract that holds the author solely responsible for ensuring that their content is their own work.
Those who are victims of plagiarism are entitled to the following remedies:
· To have the offending book recalled from distribution – This can cost the publisher over $100k, and the author was required to pay for it.
· To an official published apology – The plagiarist must publicly admit their theft and acknowledge the rightful creator of the material.
· Civil damages – In one case, the victim sued the author and received over a quarter of a million dollars. The author lost his house, savings and was ruined by their act.
Laws against Plagiarism
According to the United State Constitution, “The Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries”. The U.S. Supreme court has also addressed the plagiarism issue, and also uses the “Latham Act” to justify punitive damages for plagiarism.
In 1948, Doubleday copyrighted and published General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s book, Crusade in Europe, which was about the D-Day invasion and Fox later created a TV series from it.
For the fiftieth anniversary of World War II, a third party company named Dastar edited the Crusade in Europe television series, added some new material, and released a video set called World War II Campaign in Europe without attribution to Fox.
In the famous Dastar vs. Twentieth Century Fox case (539 US 23), the court found Dastar guilty of plagiarism for copying Twentieth Century Fox material without giving them proper credit:
their complaint […] claims that Dastar's sale of Campaigns “without proper credit” to the Crusade television series constitutes “reverse passing off” in violation of § 43(a) of the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1125(a)
In this case we see that the U.S. Supreme court doubled the amount of the damages. When plagiarism is intentional and with malice, courts are allowed to impose “punitive” damages, doubling and even tripling the amount of the actual damage to punish the plagiarist:
Professors Against Plagiarism:
SOURCE: http://professorsagainstplagiarism.blogspot.com/
Looking over the Internet we discovered this story:
http://diehimmelistschoen.blogspot.com Really very interesting
So, the Universities that organize WSEAS Conferences must be very careful in the review
After this mistake of IEEE, we must be careful
Also, we found via Wikipedia this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgenwhich is a collection for many bogus conferences (outside the WSEAS).
WSEAS is very proud that we have a very strict review process.
So, I copy from WIKIPEDIA this TEXT
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 )
List of works with noticeable acceptance
- Rob Thomas: Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy, 2005 for WMSCI (see above)
- Mathias Uslar's paper was accepted to the IPSI-BG conference[4].
- Professor Genco Gülan published a paper in the 3rd International Symposium of Interactive Media Design[5].
- Students at Iran's Sharif University of Technology published a paper in the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computation (which is published by Elsevier)[6]. 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[7].
- Conferences of Wessex Institute of Technology [8].
- 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 [9]. The author is named after the Swedish short film Der Schlangemann. Furthermore the author was invited to be a session chair during the conference[10].Read the official Herbert Schlangemann Blog for details[11]. 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 [12]. 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",
A letter from Evan M. Butterfield (IEEE)
A letter from Evan M. Butterfield (Director of Products & Services, IEEE Computer Society10662 Los Vaqueros Circle, Los Alamitos, CA 90720714.816.2165) informed in Jan 17, 2009 the following:
The IEEE Computer Society (CS) has evidence that multiple (IEEE) 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. See: http://bogusconferences.blogspot.com/2009/05/bogus-conferences-ieee-confess.html
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/
Other protest blogs are:
- Official Protests[13].
- Bogus Conferences [14].
- "Netdriver"[15].
- "Another Letter of acceptance in an IEEE Conference"[16].
- Anti-Plagiarism Web Log[17].
- "How can someone trust IEEE?"[18].
- "Open Letter"[19].
- "A letter from Evan M. Butterfield (IEEE) "[20].
See also
In September 2008 the Journal for Scientific Publications of Aspirants and Doctoral Candidates published machine translation (with some human intervention) of Rooter into Russian, undersigned by a certain "Mikhail Zhukov" (a feigned name, used by journalists from Troitsky variant newspaper, who wanted to demonstrate low quality of scientific publications and peer review process in Russia). Rooter got good-to-excellent comments from the peer, praising high practical applicability of the matter researched and the novelty of the material; the only negative comment was given in regard of the style, which was claimed to be more appropriate for a newspaper than for a scientific journal. After the "author" corrected stylistic drawbacks, the article was accepted for publication.
Following the publication and consequent scandal, the presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission of Russia struck the Journal for Scientific Publications of Aspirants and Doctoral Candidates from the official list of journals authorized to publish research materials of aspirants and doctoral candidates.
Notes
- ^ Stribling, Jeremy; Aguayo, Daniel; Krohn, Maxwell. "Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy" (PDF). http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/rooter.pdf.
- ^ Rob Thomas. "The Dangers of Spamferences" (HTML). http://thepeerreview.ca/view.php?aid=221.
- ^ "SCIgen - An Automatic CS Paper Generator". MIT. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/.
- ^ "Mathias Uslar's paper.". http://www.mwise.de/blog/index.php/2005/12/29/scigen-for-scientific-research-a-case-study/.
- ^ "About Genco Gulan's paper.". http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/blog/index.php?entry=entry060414-130910.
- ^ Rohollah Mosallahnezhad. "Cooperative, Compact Algorithms for Randomized Algorithms" (PDF). http://ce.sharif.edu/~ghodsi/soft-group/misc/AMC-paper.pdf.
- ^ John L. Casti. "REMOVED: Cooperative, compact algorithms for randomized algorithms". http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2007.03.011.
- ^ "Conferences of Wessex Institute of Technology without review". http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~wp/videa.html.
- ^ "Paper on the IEEE Database". http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/freesrchabstract.jsp?arnumber=4723109&k2dockey=4723109@ieeecnfs.
- ^ "CSSE Conference Program". https://sites.google.com/site/herbertschlangemann/Home/csse2008_program.pdf?attredirects=0.
- ^ "Schlangemann's blog". http://diehimmelistschoen.blogspot.com/.
- ^ [http://www.ieee-ecommerce.com/ "IEEE International Conference on e-Business and Information System Security"]. http://www.ieee-ecommerce.com/.
- ^ "Some other conferences of IEEE". http://anti-ieee.blogspot.com/2008/02/iti-2008.html.
- ^ "Bogus Conferences". http://bogus-conferences.blogspot.com/.
- ^ "Conferences that you must avoid". http://netdriver.blogspot.com/2009/01/from-site-httpwwwanti-plagiarismorg.html.
- ^ "Another Letter of acceptance in an IEEE Conference". http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-have-letter-of-acceptance-fantastic.html.
- ^ "Other IEEE Conferences". http://netdriver.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-is-shame-for-ieee.html.
- ^ "How can someone trust IEEE". http://blog.marcelotoledo.org/2008/12/26/how-can-someone-trust-ieee.
- ^ "Open Letter". http://dominore.blogspot.com/2009/05/i-am-freelance-journalist-who.html.
- ^ "A letter from Evan M. Butterfield (IEEE)". http://bogusconferences.blogspot.com/2009/05/bogus-conferences-ieee-confess.html.
63 COMMENTS (LEAVE YOUR COMMENTS HERE):
I have already informed my colleagues and I have attached this textoutside my office
and our departmental notice board.
Best Regards,
I.K.
Dear Profesor Nikos Mastorakis ,
Thank you very much for your warm words, I am very proud of our friendship and I hope to see you soon. Until that moment I would like to express and send you my sincere wishes for the winter holidays.
HAVE A NICE VACATION together with all dear family and friends.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
My Best Regards,
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Dear WSEAS
Thank you for informing us about those criminals
I will participate in a WSEAS conference in the near future.
Best regards
Gabriella
Approximately each year about 4000 academicians attend the WSEAS Conferences and more than 4000 papers are published by WSEAS each year out of more than 13000 submitted papers. While from 13000 papers in WSEAS Conferences, approximately 5000 are approved and from them around 4000 thousand make registration and attend the congresses.
I know also who is him and I sent email to wseas-team@wseas.org
He is quite idiot. WSEAS made the correct motion to give the review of the WSEAS Conferences in the collaborating universities.
I am proud that I will go to the Harvard University for the WSEAS Conference next month
I said to our Rector that we are in a collaborative relationship, which is the truth, so our rector agreed to post both announcements, for Cambridge and Harvard too.
Also, yesterday I’ve uploaded my CV to be reviewer for WSEAS.
How are you?
Marija
I hope that everything is OK for you and you family.
I wish you all the best and kind regards from Bucharest,
I am very sorry, Nikos. In this world there are more and more evil people. They don't have ideas, they don't want to work, but they envy your brainstorming and your hard work. This is the spirit of Christmas?!
Take care of yourself, Nikos, and don't pay attention to that impostor, he can't harm WSEAS!!! If I can help you with a bit of something, please, tell me!
Aida
I check the links in ISI. All the WSEAS conferences (100%) are in ISI. On the contrary, I found only a 2-3% of IEEE Conferences in ISI. For example, I participated in IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control in Greece several times and none of his Proceedings are in ISI. Of course, it is in IEEExplore. But IEEExplore is not an Index.
I am a colleague of the University of Southern Denmark and I will support the WSEAS for ever
I know that Prof. Mastorakis is one of the pioneers in Systems Theory (factorization, multidimensional systems and Polynomials). I have never attended a WSEAS conference, but I have published many good papers in the WSEAS Journals where I received very hard review
I received also the email of "Sana"
He told me that WSEAS published his paper without his agreement because his Paper was not in its final form.
But I know that the registration is compulsory in WSEAS Conferences. So, "Sana" is absolutely impostor
My mind goes to two possible people that behind "Sara".
However, this "Sara" is idiot. How can WSEAS publish a paper that is not registered.
"Sara" is a big impostor
and I think I know his name
WSEAS 4 EVER
Dr. Oscar B.
I will support also the WSEAS
I would like to compare the WSEAS Conferences with the ECC'07
See:
https://euca.papercept.net/conferences/conferences/ECC07/program/ECC07_AuthorIndexWeb.html
In WSEAS Conferences, if you submit 4 papers, it is sure that 2 of them will be rejected
I sent 10 papers to this technically co-sponsored IEEE conference
https://euca.papercept.net/conferences/conferences/ECC07/program/ECC07_AuthorIndexWeb.html
and they were accepted all.
I received very funny review for example: improve the format of the paper and the like
I will send you also email with more details
Sorry, my comment was trancated
Simply
use this link
http://ecc07.ntua.gr/
and then click on the link
"The Program of the Conference"
So, this conference of ECC'07 accepted all of my papers, but in WSEAS for every 2 papers, 1 is accepted
Felices Fiestas!
The service in WSEAS is the best of the best.
I have just arrived from an IEEE Conference in Cairo, Egypt.
It was nice and high quality. ALl the IEEE papers were very good. Some of them were important
But they give us only a flash memory with the proceedings, but no book, no hard copy and the registration fees were higher
Felices Fiestas!
I was in Rethymna Beach hotel in Crete, Greece twice, once in a WSEAS Conference and another time in IEEE. while the IEEE was organized by Professor Billis from National Technical University of Athens. Both of them were quite good. However, I noticed that Prof. Billis refused to pay the bill for the conference banquet, because he claimed that the hotel overcharged him. For example Billis claimed that the IEEE had 200 people in the Banquet and the Hotel charged him for 230.
The WSEAS conference was organized by Prof. Nikos Mastorakis
I was in front of this scuffle. Ιt was a terrible brawl. We, as participants of this banquet of IEEE were annoyed by this scuffle. Why did the IEEE (Billis) refused to pay the Hotel for our expenses?
and why didn't Prof. Billis and the hotel solve their dissidence inside some office.
All the other were very good, both in WSEAS and in IEEE. Both conferences were excellent and I was happy that i participated
Merry Christmas
Dear WSEAS
Please, continue posting the comments of your members
on the following web pages (the list of 2009 comments is not unpdated)
http://www.worldses.org/feedback2009.txt
From 2008: http://www.worldses.org/feedback2008.txt
From 2007: http://www.worldses.org/feedback2007.txt
From 2006: http://www.worldses.org/feedback2006.txt
From 2005: http://www.worldses.org/feedback2005.txt
From 2004: http://www.worldses.org/feedback2004.txt
From 2003: http://www.worldses.org/feedback2003.txt
From 2002, Part A' http://www.worldses.org/feedback_union.txt
From 2002, Part B' http://www.worldses.org/impressions.txt
From 2002, Part C' http://www.worldses.org/collection3.txt
Thank you for informing us about this guy. I phoned the office of WSEAS and they told me his name. It is a pity to bomb us with such SPAM. Also, I agree with the WSEAS policy not to publish his name.
I assisted the WSEAS Conferences in Singapore in 2003 and I am proud because I had seen the list of participants with high rejection rate (almost 60% of the papers were rejected). This was my statistics as assistant in the WSEAS Secretariat in the hotel of the island Sentosa in Singapore 2003.
Most of you, you remember me and I have some of my photos on the web
www.wseas.org/reports
I have visited also the WSEAS offices in Athens and I have worked with the WSEAS in some common research projects
Shuchen Li
shuchen.li@gmail.com
Actually this person was the same that annoyed us again last year
At least he could hide his IP
See
http://spoudastes.blogspot.com/2008/01/wseas-students-against-global-warming.html
Hi
I have just applied to join you
in the WSEAS Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/people/Wseas-Friends/1402856134
From now on, I will go only to WSEAS events
I love you and I am fan of Nikos Mastorakis
Maja
I am student at Université de Lyon, France
I was in a recent IEEE/IMACS Conference organized recently. I do not want to report the congress because I do not want to offend the organisers.
The difference with the WSEAS is that in WSEAS events I always receive 2 or 3 reviews from different , really independent, academicians and it is not difficult to have some failure (rejected paper).
On the contrary in the IEEE/IMACS i sent 4 papers and passed all.
My papers were good, but I did not receive any comment. The IEEE/IMACS was very nice, but they gave us only one CD-ROM, contrary to WSEAS that use to gives 3-4 volumes (hard-copy) in each of its conferences and of course 1 or 2 CDs and some complimentary copies from journals.
The conference fees were the same, both in IEEE and in WSEAS.
I think that the IEEE conference had more participants and had more luxurius hotel than the WSEAS.
The IEEE had 5 star hotel, and the WSEAS had 4 Star.
Maybe, the 4 star is more appropriate for students like me.
Merry Cristmas
Do not fear with this "anonymous" fake email sender. I was in the committee of the WSEAS + Univ. Cambridge Conference two years ago and I received this email.
You have 4000 - 5000 papers each year. They receive peer review and manmy times their papers are rejected. They enjoy your conferences (scientific plus organizational part) and they convey this image to their universities. You have 4000 - 5000 thousand accepted papers every year. If you multiply them by an average 3 (authors by paper), you have 15000 authors per year. They know the quality of your review and they diffuse the quality of your conferences to their friends and to their universities.
This is the reason, that the premium Universities like Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, etc... organize conferences under the umbrella of the WSEAS
When we went to other conferences, nobody help us (travel arrangements, trip) but in WSEAS, we are a warm family. I had lost my wallet in a WSEAS conference in Rodos and the organizers supported me financially by paying my hotel. I have heard several stories about the WSEAS during this conference in Rodos. They help people financially, they gave 120000 EUR to tsunami victims 5 years ago by donating these money to philanthropic institutes and so on...
If you know other similar stories, tell them,
Yes, this is true!
WSEAS is very philanthropic and very honest.
They helped also fiancially the victims of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake in Abruzzo of Italy
They sent money to the affected people and to their families. They offered 45000 EUR !
Congratulations to WSEAS
Dear Nikos,
+ (48)(22)3810275 + (48)(22)3810275
I was so happy to meet you in Budapest and to see
that you have received the Budapest tech highest
honor.
I wish you and your family Merry Christmas (I hope
that I am not late because of a later Christmas
time in the Orthodox countries). Much health,
prosperoty and happiness in the New Year. Please
continue your gret work, we - the entire
scientific community - need you in these difficult
times.
Warm wishes and regards
Janusz
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Academician Janusz Kacprzyk
Professor, Ph.D., D.Sc.
Fellow of IEEE, IFSA
President of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems
Association)
President of the Polish Society for Operational
and Systems Research
Systems Research Institute
Polish Academy of Sciences
ul. Newelska 6
01-447 Warsaw, Poland
Email: kacprzyk@ibspan.waw.pl
http://www.ibspan.waw.pl/~kacprzyk
Google: kacprzyk
Phone:
Fax: + (48)(22)3810103
Dear WSEAS
I wish you a happy Holiday Season and a healthy prosperous New Year, 2010.
All the best, and with love,
Cemil Tunc (Prof.)
Department of Mathematics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Yuzuncu Yil University
Tel.+432 225 1024-39/1266
65080,Kampus
Van- Turkey
www.yyu.edu.tr
www.yyu.edu.tr/akademik/ctunc/index.htm
Dear colleagues,
34-91-5206418 34-91-5206418 , Fax: +34-91-5201621
Many thanks for your call regarding the WSEAS CSCC 2010 and the further information about the other numerous activities. It is a great pleasure for me to form part as a member of WSEAS and to have participated as a referee in 2009.
I also have read the interesting interview in the Spanish newspaper ABC (Canary Islands)...
Kind regards and Happy Holidays,
Jesus Martinez-Frias
-----------------------------------
Prof. Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias
Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)
Associated to the NASA Astrobiology Institute
Ctra de Ajalvir, km 4, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz,
Madrid (Spain), Tel:
Dear WSEAS
I agree with the WSEAS
After passing through a hard working period in 2009, now is very close to the end of the year. Although next year has been expected to be a difficult
year due to the consequence of economic crisis, I believe, based on our insistence of the passion on business education and research, we definitely will be able to overcome any barrier in front of us.
Here, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family
Merry Christmas and Prosperous Year of 2010.
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of
alue." - Albert Einstein
Best Regards,
Dr Ruban Igor and
Dr Voropaeva Nadejda
Dear Professor Mastorakis,
I kindly ask you to excuse me for the following situation. I had an unexpected and very severe health problem in my family and I have not the permission to leave Bucharest. Please excuse me if I could not attend the conference in Athens next week. Already, I have to cancel all the arrangements for this travel.
But, I am interested to have the proceedings and I hope we could arrange to pay the volume and to receive it with the next occasion.
It would be a good opportunity to discuss about the conference of Bucharest.
For the moment, I am keeping you inform on our last steps. We invited and have the positive replay of participation of a great part of rectors of universities of Romania. We invited them in order to set up a coherent program of WSEAS conferences in our country, applying for governmental funds. Also, I discussed with our rector, Professor Ecaterina Andronescu and with the dean of the Technological Faculty, Professor Gheorghe Amza to kindly ask you to establish a permanent WSEAS office in Bucharest, at the Politehnica University, following the IEEE example. Their office is in the Energy Faculty, in the Professor Mircea Eremia bureau. If you will agree the proposal, we could establish WSEAS office in my bureau and laboratory (which presently is a process of modernization with the KSB Pumps support).
Sincerely yours,
Mircea Grigoriu
Happy new year to you!
Thanks for your help and support to me in the past days!
I wish you and your family healthy and happy in the coming new year!
I also wish our cooperation will continue and wish further progress in our cooperation!
I apologize that I did not contact you and ask for your advice and instructions in recent
months. In the second half of this year, I spent considerable time in the Remote Sensing
Key Lab of Chinese Ministry of Education for some urgent project tasks as a visiting researcher.
Now the project tasks have been accomplished. I wish our cooperation will continue.
I will go on working hard for my post-doctoral research in WSEAS under your supervision.
My initial idea about my post-doctoral thesis is "Physics-Inspired Advanced Image Processing Techniques",
which will include our previous cooperation research work and new results in our following cooperation.
I would like to know your opinion about my initial idea of my post-doctoral thesis.
Do you agree and think it can be a proper topic for my post-doctoral thesis? Thanks!
I will report new progress in my work to you, and submit our cooperation papers to you when new
results are obtained.
Looking forward to your reply!
Best regards!
Yours,
X. D. Zhuang
My Dear WSEAS
I want to appreciate for all your helps and taking care bout my case. Thank you for paying my room charge in Tenerife, because I lost my money in the trip. You are a nice and kind man and one of the my best friends in my life. I hope we are the best friend in our life and cooperate with each other in many times in the future. I thank you again and I wish I could do in your response. I will send some photos in the conference with that link.
HAPPY NEW YEAR and be health forever
Shahram
--Dr. Shahram Javadi,
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
MOSHANIR, Azade University, Tehran, IRAN
Dear Collegues,
+40 241 664740 +40 241 664740 +40 755 047477 +40 755 047477 / +40 740 322711 +40 740 322711
Constanta Maritime University organize in september 2010 WSEAS Conference EG'1-"ENVIRONMENTAL and GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE and ENGINEERING ". We invite you to participate !
Best regards,
prof.dr.ing. Panaitescu Mariana
Environmental Departement
Constantza Maritime University
Mircea cel Batrin street 104
Constantza 900663 ROMANIA
http://www.cmu-edu.eu/
phone:
mobile:
fax: +40 241 617260
marianapan@yahoo.com
I wish again to the WSEAS family, my best wishes for a Happy New Year!
+39 089 969356 +39 089 969356
+39 089 969596 +39 089 969596
Take care!
Claudio
Dr. Claudio Guarnaccia
---------------------------
Physics Department
Engineering Faculty
University of Salerno
Via Ponte don Melillo
84084 - Fisciano (SA)
ITALY
Tel.:
Fax: +39 089 965275
Dear WSEAS,
I wish you Happy New year with many successes, health and hapiness
Best Regards
Professor Stamatios Kartalopoulos
IEEE Fellow
University of Oklahoma,
USA
Dear Professor Nikos Mastorakis ,
I posted on the announcement board of my department as well as in my laboratory the brochure for the WSEAS Conferences in Harvard.
Best regards,
Calin Ciufudean
Dear Nikos
(815) 753-6759 (815) 753-6759 , Fax :(815) 753-1112
Congratulations for the WSEAS and warm greetings !!
I am preparing my talk now and
wondering how much time I shall have for my Key-Note talk and when
it is scheduled.
Biswa Nath Datta, IEEE Fellow
Distinguished Research Professor
Northern Illinois University
Department of Mathematical Sciences
De Kalb, Illinois 60115, USA
Tel:
E-mail : dattab@math.niu.edu
http://www.math.niu.edu/~dattab
I fully agree with "Do not fear with this "anonymous" fake email sender. I was in the committee of the WSEAS + Univ. Cambridge Conference two years ago and I received this email.
You have 4000 - 5000 papers each year. They receive peer review and manmy times their papers are rejected. They enjoy your conferences (scientific plus organizational part) and they convey this image to their universities. You have 4000 - 5000 thousand accepted papers every year. If you multiply them by an average 3 (authors by paper), you have 15000 authors per year. They know the quality of your review and they diffuse the quality of your conferences to their friends and to their universities.
This is the reason, that the premium Universities like Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, etc... organize conferences under the umbrella of the WSEAS"
also note that all the WSEAS Proceedings are in ISI!!!!
This makes the WSEAS Conferences very prestigious.
Unfortunately, the IEEE conferences have only a 2% of its conferences in ISI.
On the other hand, the IEEE has its journals in ISI, but WSEAS not yet.
It is not difficult for the WSEAS to register its journals in ISI and WSEAS must try.
Another thing is that very few IEEE conferences have accepted fake papers recently. Try google
IEEE fake paper
IEEE garbage
IEEE bogus
Sorry, due to a typing error in my name,I am posting again my previous comment
I fully agree with "Do not fear with this "anonymous" fake email sender. I was in the committee of the WSEAS + Univ. Cambridge Conference two years ago and I received this email.
You have 4000 - 5000 papers each year. They receive peer review and manmy times their papers are rejected. They enjoy your conferences (scientific plus organizational part) and they convey this image to their universities. You have 4000 - 5000 thousand accepted papers every year. If you multiply them by an average 3 (authors by paper), you have 15000 authors per year. They know the quality of your review and they diffuse the quality of your conferences to their friends and to their universities.
This is the reason, that the premium Universities like Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, etc... organize conferences under the umbrella of the WSEAS"
also note that all the WSEAS Proceedings are in ISI!!!!
This makes the WSEAS Conferences very prestigious.
Unfortunately, the IEEE conferences have only a 2% of its conferences in ISI.
On the other hand, the IEEE has its journals in ISI, but WSEAS not yet.
It is not difficult for the WSEAS to register its journals in ISI and WSEAS must try.
Another thing is that very few IEEE conferences have accepted fake papers recently. Try google:
IEEE fake paper
IEEE garbage
IEEE bogus
IEEE junk
IEEE scam
I was these days in the WSEAS Conference in Vouliagmeni and the quality and the level was very high
Actually, this was the NAUN conferences www.naun.org that are in collaboration with the WSEAS.
The conference was excellent.I noticed how many expenses the organizers had for us. Rich food, rich coffee-breaks and of course high quality presentations.
I distinguish two Keynote Presentations. This of Prof. Mastorakis and this of Prof. Pardalos both pioneers in optimization
Distinguished Prof. Mastorakis,
I wish you A Happy New Year 2010, good health, lots of successes and important achievements in your scientific activities, including all aspects regarding the WSEAS Organization.
All the best for you and your family!
I hope that we will keep in touch and, maybe, we will find common aspects and interests in order to develop future collaborations.
I also hope that we will meet again in congresses, my four participations in WSEAS Congresses showing clearly, I hope, my interest.
As I told you, in Tenerife was another success for you and for all of us, participants there. Nevertheless, when you will come again in Romania, do not hesitate to contact me.
With all due respect,
Assoc. Prof. Catalin Cruceanu
Rolling Stock Engineering Department
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Transports
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
Romania.
P.S. All the best and A Happy New Year 2010 for the entire WSEAS Team.
The WSEAS sent 120000 EUR to tsunami victims in Indonesia.
None other society made it.
The IEEE (Indonesia Chapter) did not help the Goverment.
Only the WSEAS helped. This is
the additive value of the WSEAS or this is the real academicians:
WSEAS!
Thank you WSEAS for sending us 120000 EUR for supporting the childrenn and homeless people
after Tsunami of 2004
To Prof. Nikos Mastorakis
Professor in the Technical University of Sofia, BULGARIA
Dear Prof. Nikos
" WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR, 2010"
Dr.S.C.Das
Ex-Head, Hydro& Electrometallurgy Dept. &Director-Grade-Scientist
Regional Research Laboratory, Bhubaneswar - 751 013 , INDIA
Dear Professor Nikos Mastorakis ,
Congratulations for your HONORARY DEGREE in Budapest!
And thank you very much for your kind reply.
Best Regards,
Cecilia Reis
It is a shame to him.
I know that many conference organizers make attacks to other conference organizers from time to time.
Hamid Arabnia president of WORLDCOMP sent us emails blaming WSEAS and in another email he reported some Fake IEEE Papers and Fake IEEE Conferences.
Dear WSEAS
I learned about the WSEAS when i attended a conference in my University
http://conferences.ulbsibiu.ro/mdis09/conference_program.php
I met Prof. Mastorakis a pioneer scientist in Systems Theory and Optimization. He is a nice guy.
I sent two very good papers in the WSEAS conferences in Tenerife, December 2009. However, the one was rejected. I asked financial support for the other one and the WSEAS granted.
Thanks you WSEAS!
Dear prof.Michael R. Sandberg!
After passing through a hard working period in 2009, now is very close to the end of the year. Although next year has been expected to be a difficult
year due to the consequence of economic crisis, I believe, based on our insistence of the passion on business education and research, we definitely
will be able to overcome any barrier in front of us.
Here, I would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family Prosperous Year of 2010.
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of
alue." - Albert Einstein
Best Regards,
Dr Ruban Igor and
Dr Voropaeva Nadejda
I receive also an email from some "Mr. Diehimmelistschoen." with the follwoing content
Subject: bogus conference IEEE -- bogus conferences IEEE
More than 20 conference proceedings of IEEE have been published and
have included
BOGUS PAPERS. i.e. papers with random text. The IEEE did not re-print
them. Why??
Imagine how many HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of low-level and low-quality
papers have been accepted
in IEEE without quality control, without any kind of elementary
review.
Many Proofs and many blogs exist. First of all Nagib Callaos affair
(conferences with the official
approval and support of IEEE). It is a shame why all the bloggers of
2005 fighted Nagib Callaos
forgetting to fight the franchising systems of IEEE that supported
Callaos and many other crappy (clown) conferences
that have the stamp of IEEE!
Now after the fake papers that numerous IEEE Sponsored events accepted
in February of 2008, December 2008,
January 2009
some colleagues gathered all these IEEE Fake Conference Proceedings
at:
http://diehimmelistschoen.blogspot.com/
Prof. PETRE DINI, the Creator and owner of IARIA spams blogs discrediting, defaming and accusing other conferences and journals!!! See the 6th and the 7th comment in our blog
See details
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com
More specifically at
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com
/2009/12/we-received-this-comment
-from-shie-yuan.html
AMAZING!
Petre Dini said...
While browsing the net, I found two more fake journals in Computer Science:
(1) Computer Science Journals
http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/home.php
(2) International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI) (http://www.ijcsi.org/)
Petre Dini
Forward and publish it in your blogs with a reference to us
http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2009/12/petre-dini-creator-and-owner-of-iaria.html
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Prof. Arlindo Oliveira
had two web pages:
http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt/~aml/
impeaches several other conferences!
It is amazing how Mr. Professor Arlindo Oliveira imputes and offends
many other conferences in order to attrack people in its own conferences!!!!!!
By the way, we found that his conferences have high publishing fees!!!!!!!!!
For example Oliveira organizes many conferences for example:
http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt/recomb2010/home.html
http://www.bioinformatics-portugal.org/jb2009/
and many others....
but simultaneously, he makes attackes against other conference organizers.
what a world!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I visited:
http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt/~aml/
However, it is a shame for Arlindo Oliveira to organize some conferences
with very high registration fees
and at the same time to try to exterminate "his competitors"
(as he feels)
This WSEAS journals are considered as one of the most valid and of high caliber journals and its contents are available for free on the internet to anyone that is interested (it is also printed in hard copy), while its publications are often referenced by other researchers (e.g. enter the word “Mastorakis” in http://scholar.google.com). Recent statistics showed that out of 100 articles, only 6.32 are approved, while the rest are rejected. In other words, only about 1 out of 20 articles gets approved.
I am in a position to provide details by name (article titles – authors) even for the articles that have been rejected, and among those you will several names from even the best Universities of your country.
No other criteria for publishing exist, other than the quality of the articles themselves.
Also, as can be ascertained, those publications are included among the most valid and distinguished international indexes http://www.wseas.us/indexes/ such as SCOPUS, ELSEVIER, EI, ACM, American Mathematical Society, CSA, American Chemical Society, DEST, EBSCO, British Library etc.
To the previous commentor:
Prof. Arlindo Oliveira
had two web pages:
http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt/~aml/
impeaches several other conferences!
It is amazing how Mr. Professor Arlindo Oliveira imputes and offends
many other conferences in order to attrack people in its own conferences!!!!!!
By the way, we found that his conferences have high publishing fees!!!!!!!!!
For example Oliveira organizes many conferences for example:
http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt/recomb2010/home.html
http://www.bioinformatics-portugal.org/jb2009/
and many others....
but simultaneously, he makes attackes against other conference organizers.
what a world!!!!
About ARLINDO OLIVEIRA
Hi,
But it is worth to put this fact (ARLINDO OLIVEIRA) on Internet. Let's his participants know that he fight (non fair) against the other conferences. And this is fact that is true.
I had the same experience. I received an email twice from some possible conference organizer with the fake name "Bank" and "Sana" and told me not to participate in IEEE conferences.
I have not received any bad email against WSEAS, but I receive ridiculous emails AGAINST the IEEE from time to time
I am sure that people that send emails against IEEE (or against WSEAS) run also their own conferences
It is true that Arlindo Oliveira
has two web pages:
http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt/~aml/
impeaches several other conferences
Simultaneously he runs his own conferences:
http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt/recomb2010/home.html
http://www.bioinformatics-portugal.org/jb2009/
while he has main role as co-chairman in many many other events like
http://kdbio.inesc-id.pt/~aml/
This is the explanation.
If i run my own conference, then I can easily blame and accuse conferences of all the others (like IEEE, like IASTED, like WSEAS)
Do not worry. We will participate in the next WSEAS Conferences
The WSEAS Conferences are always sponsored and organized by Universities. This is important
These Universities are also responsible for the Review of the Papers as well as for
the final technical program.
I helped this procedure in Harvard in 2009 and I know
Conferences with Harvard, MIT and University of Cambridge and many others are the flagship of the WSEAS
http://www.worldses.org/universities.htm
Dan
YES, you are true,
many people that organize conferences, blame all the other conferences in order to catch ... more customers
This is a shame for the academic world!
Be careful though!
The IEEE Conferences have accepted fake (SCIgen) papers
Try to find them via Google
I have received some emails also about fake IEEE conferences and I do not know who was the sender.
On the other hand, we have participated 3 times in IEEE Conferences and I did not receive any review. I think that all the conferences are the same....
Do not be silly.
Hi Nikos,
thank you very much for such kind answer. I will send you all demanded material until the end of January.
If you like, look at the page http://lide.uhk.cz/fim/ucitel/milkoev1/en_index.htm, I have just added link to WSEAS conferences from my web-page. Most of my colleagues know WSEAS conferences and they have been sometimes attending them.
Best wishes
Eva
Dear Professor Nikos Mastorakis :
It was such a nice meet with you in Vouliagmeni Beach, Athens Greece, December 29-31, 2009.
I enjoyed very much not only the conference but also the sightseeing of historical ruins.
For all, I am deeply impressed with your beautiful play of Cretan music instrument Lyra.
I would like to upload the video of your play, which will be informed by later e-mail.
In this occasion I would like to send you the URL-address of which I talked during the session.
Please, try them. If you have something unclear, please ask me.
1) How to use my system?
http://wakahide.dyndns.org/SystemUsage/
2) The presentation in the conference, Vouliagmeni Beach
http://wakahide.dyndns.org/cit09/
3) What we tried in this domain?
http://wakahide.dyndns.org/Conference/
4) For the recreation and rehabilitation
http://wakahide.dyndns.org/cherrySound/
Best regards
Prof.H.Wakamatsu
Tokyo Med. Dent. Univ.
I am sure that your WSEAS conferences will be again successful and very interesting and I wish you the best.
(619) 421-6700 (619) 421-6700 x5461
Thank you again and best regards,
Dave Hecht
David Hecht, Ph.D.
Professor, Chemistry
Southwestern College
900 Otay Lakes Road
Chula Vista, CA 91910
dhecht@swccd.edu
The WSEAS conferences have a permanent quality.
The service is excellent and the level of presentation is exceptional.
It is also great that the WSEAS guys inserted their Books and Proceedings in ISI. I participated in another conference 4 years ago, the proceedings were published by Springer Verlag and until they have not been included at any Index.
So, the WSEAS takes cares of the Indexing of its publications in ISI, INSPEC, EI, Engineering Village, ASME, ACM, ASM more than Springer Verlag and other more historical Publishers
Nikos
Be careful though!
The IEEE Conferences have accepted fake (SCIgen) papers
Try to find them via Google
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