I recently authored a paper using SCIgen methodology

I don’t want to discourage further reading, so I’ll leave the title of my latest paper until the end of the posting.

It isn’t easy to precisely define SCIgen methodology, but the website opines that “SCIgen is a program that generates random Computer Science research papers, including graphs, figures, and citations. It uses a hand-written context-free grammar to form all elements of the papers. One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to “fake” conferences; that is, conferences with no quality standards, which exist only to make money.”

I attach below a brief example of my SCIgen output for which I can claim no credit whatsoever.

Just note that it reads rather better than much of the student coursework that one sees flying about…

5.1 Hardware and Software Configuration

A well-tuned network setup holds the key to an useful evaluation. We executed a software simulation on CERN’s desktop machines to disprove topologically classical information’s inability to effect the work of British gifted hacker Charles Darwin. Primarily, we removed some NV-RAM from our system. Similarly, we tripled the USB key space of our mobile telephones. We added some flash-memory to DARPA’s system. Along these same lines, we removed more ROM from MIT’s reliable overlay network. In the end, we removed some ROM from our decommissioned Apple IIs. This step flies in the face of conventional wisdom, but is instrumental to our results.

And the title of my paper?

Uzema: A Methodology for the Understanding of Object-Oriented Languages

Great stuff… I throughly recommend you try SCIgen for yourself.

Oh – and if you want to know why anyone would want to submit “fake” papers to so called “fake” conferences then check out the details of the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI) taking place July 10-13, 2005 in Orlando, Florida, USA:

Through WMSCI conferences, we are trying to relate the analytic thinking required in focused conference sessions, to the synthetic thinking, required for analogies generation, which calls for multi-focus domain and divergent thinking. We are trying to promote a synergic relation between analytically and synthetically oriented minds, as it is found between left and right brain hemispheres, by means of the corpus callosum. Then, WMSCI 2005 might be perceived as a research corpus callosum, trying to bridge analytically with synthetically oriented efforts, convergent with divergent thinkers and focused specialists with non-focused or multi-focused generalists.

Precisely.

And thanks to Martin G at Ohpurleese for the steer. Read his site. It will make you smile.