Software-Generated Paper Accepted for Engineering Conference
Thursday December 25, 2008
It's probably not as bad as it sounds... maybe the conference initially accepts papers pending a more thorough review. Slashdot picked up a story about a paper accepted for an IEEE conference. Worse, the fake author of the generated paper has been selected as session chair (PDF file) for the conference. The paper is entitled "Towards the Simulation of E-commerce" and it was written entirely by a computer program. You can download SCIgen, the program used to create the paper, for your own amusement and entertainment. SCIgen's programmers probe for conferences with low submission standard or at least really lax reviewers. The guest home page at the IEEE site states that the IEEE is engaged in "publishing the highest quality technical literature". Interesting, and kind of sad.
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My name is Adalbrecht
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 !!!
and
Extractors for Low-Weight Affine Sources ??????? by
Anup Rao
The papers are absolutely fake papers.
What a Shame for the IEEE Computational Complexity Spamference!