04.13.06
WMSCI 2006 Invitation
I just got an email today from Dr. Nagib Callaos inviting me to participate in WMSCI 2006. At first I was flattered since it sounded like a personal invitiation (figuring someone read my first paper and liked it) and not auto-generated spam. So I took a look at the conference website and figured I would just delete the message and move on since it didn’t sound like an interesting conference (pretty vague descriptions of the type of work presented).
After deleting I decided to take a quick peek at what google has to say about this and found some interesting links including the MIT guys random paper generation and a blog entry follow-up to this story.
Now I won’t make any claims about the conference but it certainly seems like the conference has some questionable history.
I have included the text of the message here (for no particular reason):Dear Todd Wallentine: On behalf of the WMSCI 2006 Organizing Committee, I would like to invite you to participate in the 10th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.iiisci.org/wmsci2006">http://www.iiisci.org/wmsci2006</a>), which will take place in Orlando, Florida, USA, from July 16-19, 2006. The best 10%-20% of the papers will be published in Volume 4 of JSCI Journal (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp">http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/SCI/Home.asp</a>). 12 issues of the volumes 1 and 2 of the Journal have been sent to about 200 university and research libraries, and 6 issues of Volume 3 (2005) will be sent to a larger number of library. Promotional, free subscriptions, for 2 years, are being considered for the organizations of the Journal's authors. Also, we would like to invite you to organize an invited session related to a topic of your research interest. If you are interested in organizing an invited session, please, fill the respective form provided in the conference web page, and we will send you a password, so you can include and modify papers in your invited session. Organizers of the invited sessions with the best performance will be co-editors of the proceeding volume where their sessions' papers were included and of the CD electronic proceedings. They will also be candidate for invited editors, or co-editors of a possible JSCI Journal issue related to their invited session papers. You can find information about the suggested steps to organize an invited session in the Call for Papers and in the conference web page. If by any reason you are not able to access the page mentioned above, please, try the following pages: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.iiis.org/wmsci2006">http://www.iiis.org/wmsci2006</a> . If you need a detailed Call for Papers, don't hesitate in asking us for it. You can also get it the conference's web site. If the deadlines are tight and you need more time, let me know about a suitable time for you and I will inform you if it is feasible for us. Best regards, Professor Nagib Callaos WMSCI 2006 General Chair If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:wmsci.remove@iiis-sci.org">wmsci.remove@iiis-sci.org</a> with REMOVE MLWMSCI in the subject line.
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