BOGUS IEEE Conferences in Mediterranean Area

IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation conference is mock and bogus, because
a) In their web page http://med13.du.edu/venue.php they invite you as follows. 

Minoa Palace Resort & Spa

Platanias-Chania, Crete - GREECE

MED'13 will be held at the Minoa Palace Resort and Spa (http://www.minoapalace.gr), a luxury five star beachside resort. The resort is situated in the cosmopolitan area of Platanias, 12km west of the picturesque town of Chania and about 30 min drive from the Chania International Airport. The resort offers majestic views of its surrounding countryside and the White Mountains. To the north, the resort enjoys panoramic views of the endless golden beach of Platanias with the shimmering sapphire blue Aegean beyond. Guests have immediate access to the sandy beach in front of the resort. For information about Chania, visit: http://www.chania.eu/tourism and for Greece, visit: http://www.gnto.gr.

A video of the hotel and resort accommodations is available here.

To run a conference in a Resort & Spa does not necessarily means that the conference is Bogus, but this feature in combination with b), c), d) and e) - see below-- implies that the conference is bogus and mock.

b) The "Society" that organizes this event is the so called MEDITERRANEAN CONTROL ASSOCIATION. It is very strange that this "Association" is only one Person (actually the owner) Prof. Panos Antsaklis with academic address: University of Notre Dame, USA. So, what kind of "Mediterranean" Association is this association having the headquarters in a room in USA and what kind of Association is this having Prof. Antsaklis (always the same person) as President (in fact he is the Owner) in the recent 21 years?

***We tried (Google) to find other members of this kind of "Association" but we did not find anyone else. Only Antsaklis!

c) It is also very strange that a conference in Greece collects the registration fees in USA. Note that in their web page the Registration Chairman is some Hai Lin, Assistant Professor in the University of Notre Dame just under Panos Agathoklis. How can a conference in Greece of  "Mediterranean" area collect the registration fees in USA?

d) It is also very strange that in the web page of the conference there is no mention for Registration and Registration Fees. So, they do not clear their financial requirements from the beginning, but you will learn about the registration cost at the end when a possible retraction of your paper will be impossible.

e) After sending email to 5 members of the International Program Committee, we got the same answer: The IPC members are not aware about ... the conference.

Conclusion: Evaluating a), b), c), d), e) we draw the conclusion that this is a bogus IEEE conference with a fake organization harming the name and the reputation of IEEE.

Strong Proofs for a New IEEE bogus conference. www.intenv.org

 We have just received a call for papers. It could be a Call For Papers of a honest and legitimate conference. However, we visited the web site: www.intenv.orgThey claim in their site www.intenv.org
"Publications: all papers accepted in the main conference will be published by the IEEE and electronically available through IEEE Explore.  All papers accepted in the Workshops program will be published as a volume of the Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments Series (ISI indexed) of IOS Press and electronically available through ACM Digital Library"
This is quite misleading because IEEE confessed that 157 Conferences with the Proceedings already inserted and recorded in IEEE Xplore were ... fake conferences. See the confession in the IEEE Site: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/author_form.html
Another proof that this conference is bogus is the conference web site
http://www.intenv.org/?q=content/hosting-ie-conferences
In this web page they have the phrase "In general terms the  venue should be attractive and pleasant to visitors" confessing that this conference is only a tourist gathering. Conclusion: This is a new IEEE bogus conference. We recommend you to send your own fake (even SCIgen) bogus papers. We are sure that they will publish them without review exactly as in these cases:
a) http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2008/12/we-have-letter-of-acceptance-fantastic.html
    http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com/2008/12/fantastic-paper-accepted-in-ieee.html

b) http://netdriver.blogspot.com/2010/06/who-others-have-accepted-bogus-texts-in.html

c) http://diehimmelistschoen.blogspot.com

Find extended staff that IEEE is bogus in
http://netdriver.blogspot.com   and http://iaria-highsci.blogspot.com or search by your search engine: IEEE Bogus Conferences

Fake IEEE MED conferences:

Fake IEEE MED conferences:
These conferences are organized by the "Mediterranean Control Association"
However, this "Association" is a Company based in USA by a Greek Professor.
We sent them two papers describing the equipment of our laboratory.
We copied the manual of Inverted Pendulum and we got the acceptance letter after
some days. So, for sure include in your fake conferences list the
Fake IEEE MED conferences

Have you hear about Jeffrey Beall's big scam? Jeffrey Beall's deception and fraud?

Have you hear about Jeffrey Beall's big scam? Jeffrey Beall's deception and fraud?
**** From the blog: iaria-highsci.blogspot.com we copied and pasted the following post. Needless to say that we fully agree ******

IAENG conferences and Jeffrey Beall's deception and fraud

IAENG conferences are absolutely fake withour peer review, without an elementary inspection. IAENG conferences have published many fake papers (exactly as ACM pseudo-conferences).
IAENG conferences are really the scourge of the academic community. Chinese people and in general Asians use to publish in IAENG.

Prof. Chun-Hsien Chen from Nanyang Technological University has just published a comment in our blog that he is in the IAENG conference committee "IAENG 2013 ICAIA Conference" without his knowledge.

On the other hand (Assoc) Prof Chen Chun-Hsien commented for the extortionate Jeffrey Beall's List. For those that they do not know there is a person Jeffrey Beall that makes money hijacking any publisher and any publishing house asking them money (10000 dollars is the tariff) for not including them in his "black list". As you can find by Google there exist many protests that Jeffrey Beall is a real crook. An anonymous commentor in our blog wrote in Sept. 14 2012.

Jeffrey Beall is a real crook. He uses to send emails to publishing companies and to various organizations telling them that he will put them on his blacklist if they do not pay to him a tariff. Beall asked me 10000 dollars to erase my publishing company from his ridiculous black list. He is a thief. Jeffrey Beal is a real racketeer and a unique extortioner.
Jeffrey Beall's career is a big scandal itself. Jeffrey Beall' name emits stench and stink. He was for 20 years a clerk, a librarian and after that his "university" nominated him as ... Professor. Jeffrey Beall is a professional scammer because he makes money by "shaking down" various publishers.

In the beginning we did not pay attention, but today, we received a second comment confirming that Jeffrey Beall is really a crook and swindler of the worst kind.

This was the new comment. See also here ...

by Assoc Prof Chen Chun-Hsien

I also agree that Jeffrey Beall is a crook. He asked from Cambridge Scholar Publisher the amount of 10000 dollars. Cambridge Scholar Publisher paid to Jeffrey Beall 10000 dollars and the saved their name from Beall's list.

My name is Chun-Hsien Chen, I am Assoc.Professor in the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. IAENG fake conferences' organizers have just added my name in their committee of the apparently fake "IAENG 2013 ICAIA Conference" ...without my knowledge. I conclude that IAENG conferences are quite junk, fake, bogus and ... trush. I strongly recommend my students as well as any scholar not to publish with IAENG.

Assoc.Prof.Chun-Hsien Chen
Email: MCHCHEN@ntu.edu.sg
Phone:  (+65)6790 4888
Office: N3.2-01-06

ENGINEERING INFORMATION INSTITUTE and SCIRP: Fake Journals Publishers

ENGINEERING INFORMATION INSTITUTE and SCIRP: Fake Journals Publishers

Another "generator" of fake published papers is ENGINEERING INFORMATION INSTITUTE http://www.engii.org. These guys sent us almost every day their Spam. An evaluationg of their site yields the following:

a) ENGINEERING INFORMATION INSTITUTE uses in their bogus conferences the name and logo of IEEE and several IEEE societies like IEEE communications society, IEEE EMB, IEEE APS etc... However we have been informed by IEEE (after sending to IEEE several emails and finally got a reply) that IEEE has no idea about it. They use also the brand name and logos of IBM, SIEMENS, MICROSOFT and several other commercial companies without their permission and together with the academic sponsors. They demonstrate also names of several "universities" (names and logos) in India and China as sponsors. We do not know the quality of these universities and we do not think that ENGINEERING INFORMATION INSTITUTE got their official approval.
More Details here   http://www.engii.org/Journals.aspx
Click also on the picture below:

b) Almost all the invited speakers are from India, China and Japan. This implies lack of international diversity, necessary for international conferences.

c) They have as publisher in their bogus journals ( http://www.engii.org/Journals.aspx ) the bogus publisher SCIRP

Conclusion: ENGINEERING INFORMATION INSTITUTE as using the brand name of  several IEEE societies, IBM, SIEMENS, MICROSOFT and other big commercial names as well as several Indian and Chinese Universities (of dubious quality though) without their persmission and without their knowledge, having complete lack of international diversity and having as publisher in their journals the notoriously bogus publisher SCIRP, is after all a fake, bogus, junk "academic" publisher working only for the money of innocent (or not so innocent) academicians and scholars.
It is a total fraud and scam. Be aware of those academic criminals.

IEEE after duly spam ask sincere apologies for their fake conference: "Apologies for cross-posting of the email"

Their web site is: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/epnsugan/index_files/SSCI2013/

Why is this fake and bogus IEEE Conference?

1. Because it is over-advertized by SPAM
2. Spam Emails are sent from various and strange non-academic addresses like gmail.com, yahoo.com
3. In their emails they start with the phrase: "Apologies for cross-posting of the email."
4. So far, the majority of conferences is on the web without committee
5. Some of these conference have committee but they do not have serious committees with serious researchers.
5. Thys conferences is composed by 42 Conferences on everything related directly or indirectly with computational intelligence. The bogus IEEE conferences are listed below
6. Explanations about the review process are absent.

This is the list of the 42 parallel fake IEEE conferences.

ADPRL 2013, IEEE Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning

IEEE ALIFE 2013, IEEE Symposium on Artificial Life

CCMB 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain

CIASG 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid

CIBCB 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

CIBIM 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management

CIC 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Creativity

CICA 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation

CICARE 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Healthcare and e-health

CIComms 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Communication Systems

CICS 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security

CIDM 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining

CIDUE 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments

CIEL 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Ensemble Learning

CIES 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Engineering Solutions

CIFEr 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics

CIfIoT 2013, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for the Internet of Things

CIHLI 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence

CII 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Industry

CIMI 2013, IEEE International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging

CIMSIVP 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia, Signal and Vision Processing

CIPLS 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems

CIRAT 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies

CISched 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling

CISDA 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications

CIVI 2013, IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence

CIVTS 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems

CompSens 2013, IEEE Workshop on Merging Fields of Computational Intelligence and Sensor Technology

EAIS 2013, IEEE Symposium on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems

FOCI 2013, IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence

GEFS 2013, IEEE International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems

HIMA 2013, IEEE Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications

IA 2013, IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents

ICES 2013, IEEE International Conference on Evolvable Systems – From Biology to Hardware

MC 2013, IEEE Symposium on Memetic Computing

MCDM 2013, IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making

OC 2013, IEEE Workshop on Organic Computing

QCCI 2013, IEEE Symposium on Quantum Computing and Computational Intelligence

RiiSS 2013, IEEE Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space

SDE 2013, IEEE Symposium on Differential Evolution

SIS 2013, IEEE Symposium  on Swarm Intelligence

T2FUZZ 2013, IEEE Symposium on Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems

WACI 2013, IEEE Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence

Junk, fake and bogus conferences by the "Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC)"

Fake - Junk Journals & Conferences from the Bogus Organization sdiwc.net

We received several spam emails advertizing the Fake - Junk Journals and Conferences from the Bogus Organization www.sdiwc.net . Our portal has just added them in our black list. It seems also that they have 3 fake journals.

In their web page they report that their journals are indexed by IEEE and ACM which is obviously false and misleading. Conclusion: Avoid any relation with www.sdiwc.net. Do not send papers to theses academic criminals and do not serve as member in their committees. By the way, just now we see that the majority of the members in their committees are from 3rd world countries.

Source: fakejournals.blogspot.com

4 copies of this bogus conference's announcement today in my mailbox

The International FAKE Conference on E-Learning and E-Technologies in Education (ICEEE)

Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland FAKE IEEE CONFERENCE
Sept. 24-26, 2012    FAKE IEEE CONFERENCE

http://www.sdiwc.net/iccaee2012   FAKE IEEE CONFERENCE

Technical co-sponsored by IEEE Poland.  4 copies of this bogus conference's announcement today in my mailbox

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The proposed conference on the above theme will be held at Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland, From Sept. 24-26, 2012 which aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications.

The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics:

- Intelligent Tutoring Systems       4 copies of this bogus conference's announcement today in my mailbox
- Security Aspects FAKE IEEE CONFERENCE
- Immersive LearningFAKE IEEE CONFERENCE
- Computer-Aided Assessment     4 copies of this bogus conference's announcement today in my mailbox
- Collaborative Learning 
- Errors in e-Learning
- Community Building-Accessibility to Disabled Users 
- Context Dependent Learning
- E-Learning Platforms, Portals
- Mobile Learning (M-learning) 
- Learning Organization
- Standards and Interoperability
- Virtual Labs and Virtual Classrooms
- Digital Libraries for E-Learning
- Joint Degrees
- Web-based Learning, Wikis and Blogs
- Authoring Tools and Content Development
- Synchronous and Asynchronous Learning
- Medical Applications
- E-Learning Hardware and Software
- AV-Communication and Multimedia
- Ontologies and Meta-Data Standards
- Simulated Communities and Online Mentoring
- E-Testing and new Test Theories
- Supervising and Managing Student Projects
- Distance Education-Pedagogy Enhancement with E-Learning
- Metrics and Performance Measurement
- Assessment Methods in Blended Learning Environments
- Assessment and Accreditation of Courses and Institutions
- Course Design and e-Learning Curriculae
- Lifelong Learning: Continuing Professional Training and Development
- Theoretical Bases of E-Learning Environments
- International Partnerships in Teaching
- Distance and E-Learning in a Global Context
- Cooperation with Industry in Teaching-Higher Education vs. Vocational Training
- Critical Success Factors in Distance Learning 
- Technology Enhanced Learning
- Interdisciplinary Programs for Distance Education
- Impact and Achievements of International Initiatives
- Technology Support for Pervasive Learning
- E-learning in Electrical, Mechanical, Civil and information engineering
- Groupware Tools
- Educating the Educators-Blended Learning
- Assessment Software Tools
- Teacher Evaluation
- E-Learning Success Cases FAKE IEEE CONFERENCE

Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered.

Important Dates 4 copies of this bogus conference's announcement today in my mailbox
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Submission Date : Aug. 10, 2012 FAKE IEEE CONFERENCE
Notification of acceptance : Aug. 25, 2012 FAKE IEEE CONFERENCE
Camera Ready submission : Sep. 15, 2012 FAKE IEEE CONFERENCE
Registration : Sep. 15, 2012 FAKE IEEE CONFERENCE
Conference dates : Sept. 24-26, 2012 FAKE IEEE CONFERENCE

Noah John D. Ucab
Online Marketing Staff
SDIWC, USA
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