Connectionists: More on fake conferences organized by WASET

[Dietterich, Thomas G.]

We already have such a journal: jmlr.org.  And of course, anyone can post
papers at arxiv.org, where they are easy for other people to find.

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:connectionists-bounces at cs.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of Imad Khan
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2012 7:04 PM
To: wduch at is.umk.pl
Cc: Connectionists at cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Connectionists: More on fake conferences organized by WASET

This raises another point. We had a discussion several years (5+) ago on
this list on how to make papers freely available. Can we create a
peer-baised organization which publishes journals (lets make them
top-class) free of charge electronically.

Hard-copies have no worth these days. We can always print to read a paper.

Regards,
Dr. M. Imad Khan


On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Wlodzislaw Duch <wduch at is.umk.pl> wrote:
> Lee Giles wrote:
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>>On the positive, all papers are free and readily accessed by the public.
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> People already lost conference fees that have not be refunded and the 
> conferences never took place.
> See the following links:
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> http://comp-lite.blogspot.co.nz/2010/07/is-waset-fraud-whose-victims-k
> eep-quiet.html
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> http://fromwillis.blogspot.co.nz
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> https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/i_love_taiwan/TFx1
> WwltKlQ
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> http://neurobonkers.com/2012/01/16/is-this-journal-for-real-scientific
> -and-academic-publishing/
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> They have 3490 conferences, many of them with stolen names.
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> http://www.waset.org/conferences.php
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> There is no positive side.  WASET has stolen the names of reputable 
> conferences, ex:
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> XXXIV. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks is a 
> fiction, we had 12 ICANNs run by the European Neural Networks Society 
> every year, and as the President of the ENNS for past 6 years I'd 
> certainly have heard about another conference with this name that started
earlier.
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> International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft 
> Computing, has been 12 times in Poland, so how one can have XXXIII 
> Conference? Where is information about the previous ones? Can you 
> recognize many other reputable conferences on the WASET list that they
have hijacked?
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> Perhaps a few are actually organized, but this does not change the facts.
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> With best regards,
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> Wlodek Duch
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