Conferences in Computer Science

[harrington6]

I have a paper in WORLDCOMP and recently I learned new information about it at

 

http://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 The organizer of this conference used University of

 

Georgia affiliation with his name and I thought it is good. I am finishing my masters degree and

 

wish to do a Ph.D. Few schools rejected my application stating that my publication is in a junk

 

conference. What happens to my career?

[timo]

Just leave the paper out of your publication list, if you don't consider it a proper scientific publication. You're not required to have a scientific publication until you finished your PhD. Hope you enjoyed the conference, at least.

[harrington6]

I am graduating from one of the top schools in Korea and applying for Ph.D.

 

in MIT/Stanford/Yale. Publications at Masters degree are vital to get

 

admission/assistantship at Ph.D. in these schools. My publication in

 

WORLDCOMP https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 is very good

 

but the conference’s worst reputation is spoiling my chances. I made a

 

terrible mistake by choosing WORLDCOMP. See

 

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.corpora/17587

 

for more information. Can I resubmit this paper to another conference/journal?

[swansont]

There is nothing keeping you from submitting the work that went into the paper elsewhere, though the paper itself probably should not be identical. People give the same basic talk at multiple conferences all the time (in my area of physics, at least)

[harrington6]

Thank you. Submitting the same work elsewhere creates professional conduct (or sometimes, plagiarism) issues. I prefer not to create another problem for myself.

 

I contacted the WORLDCOMP chairman asking him to take back my copyright agreement with that conference but he is not responding.

 

It looks there are many students are facing problems due to WORLDCOMP, see http://www.bioinformatics.org/pipermail/bbb/2013-February/005254.html

[ajb]

There is nothing keeping you from submitting the work that went into the paper elsewhere, though the paper itself probably should not be identical. People give the same basic talk at multiple conferences all the time (in my area of physics, at least)

It is not unusual to see papers by an author that are similar, and as you say especially papers in conference proceeding.

 

In regards to the opening post: I would say that it should be okay to rework and extend something that was originally published in conference proceedings with publication in a proper journal in mind. The only trouble I can see is the time scale involved. Papers take between 6 months and a year to publish.

Edited March 23, 2013 by ajb

[elis]

I do have a similar experience with WORLDCOMP paper, however, the chairman of the conference Hamid Arabnia refused me to publish the paper (unless there are major revisions) elsewhere. So, if you have a paper in WORLDCOMP, you not only damage your CV due to the conference fakeness but also cannot withdraw the paper from it or republish the paper elsewhere (obviously you will NOT get the registration fee refund, 100% guaranteed)

[james23]

I submitted my BS course project to WORLDCOMP 2013 and it was approved for publication and invited me to pay the registration fee and register. However, the project is nothing but a comparison between different linked lists (with headers, without headers), that’s all! Also it has nothing but cut and paste from different text books. I can confidently say that WORLDCOMP is fake from this experience.

[jonathanbishop]

The person who started this thread is being malicious. They have a grudge against Hamid Arabina and have been spreading comments about his WORLDCOMP conference being fake.

 

I suggest forum users read this article before taking anything the above poster says seriously:

http://www.crocels.info/news/4893/hamid-arabnia-worldcomp-fake-conference-allegations-defamation/

[leventhall]

 

I don’t think any “grudge” is needed to speak the truth.

OK, where can we find the names and addresses of the reviewers for thousands of papers submitted to WORLDCOMP for all these 15 years? Why didn’t Hamid Arabnia publish the reviews for all these papers (after removing the authors’/papers’ identifies)? Why didn’t Hamid Arabnia address the open challenge and fake paper issues published at https://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf if his conference is not fake?

 

I read the following news at many places: https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS531US531&q=%22csci+and+worldcomp%22

 

“You can cheat some people for some time but you cannot cheat everyone forever!”