[Tccc] WORLDCOMP: World’s Biggest Bogus Conference is Back Again

kelvinwilliams kelvinwilliamsathushmail.com
Tue Jan 15 15:49:43 EST 2013



 WORLDCOMP: Worlds Biggest Bogus Conference is Back Again

An in-depth investigation on the worlds biggest fake conference, WORLDCOMP 
http://www.world-academy-of-science.org  organized by the University of Georgia 
(USA) computer science Professor, Hamid Arabnia  http://www.cs.uga.edu/~hra   
is available at the websites:   

https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1

or

http://moneycomp1.orgfree.com

The investigation concluded that Hamid Arabnia made TENS OF MILLIONS of dollars 
by cheating the researchers using the bogus conference WORLDCOMP. He run this 
scam for more than a decade, he accepted and published fake research papers, he 
brought paid keynote speakers as baits, his program committee members never 
reviewed papers, etc. The website(s) has open challenge to WORLDCOMP and Hamid 
Arabnia.

If the previous link(s) didnt work for any reason, visit the following links 
to see comments from some researchers on WORLDCOMP: 


http://compilers.iecc.com/comparch/article/11-01-119  written by Dr.John R. 
Levine,  http://www.johnlevine.com  a well-known scientist with a Ph.D. in 
computer science from Yale University, USA

https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/pipermail/bionlp/2012-March/002648.html  written by 
Dr.Bob Futrelle, http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/futrelle an Emeritus Professor 
from Northeastern University, USA

https://lists.ccs.neu.edu/pipermail/bionlp/2012-March/002662.html written by 
Dr.Mark A. Mandel, http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/About/Staff  a researcher from 
University of Pennsylvania, USA.

https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=evolutionary-computing;b4f885d0.1203
 written by Dr.Ivan Jordanov,  http://jordanoi.myweb.port.ac.uk  a professor 
from the University of Portsmouth, UK.

http://drtomcrick.com/2012/04/18/pretend-publications-and-counterfeit-conferences
 (written by Dr.Tom Crick, 
http://www3.uwic.ac.uk/English/Cardiff-School-of-Management/Our-Staff/Pages/Tom-Crick.aspx
 a professor from Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK.

http://blog.prof.so/2012/04/pretend-publication.html (search for the word 
WORLDCOMP in it) (written by Dr. Anthony Finkelstein, 
http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.finkelstein, professor of Software Systems 
Engineering & Dean of Engineering Sciences at University College London, UK.

http://fakeconference.blogspot.com/2012/04/worldcomp-started-with-ieee-support.html
  and also the first comment written by Prof.Reda Alhajj.

http://fakejournals.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-big-bogus-conference-of-hamid.html 
 written by Joanna Carpenter.

or search the internet using the words worldcomp fake  or Hamid Arabnia fake  
or worldcomp bogus or Hamid Arabnia bogus or Hamid Arabnia scam or any suitable 
keywords.

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