GRAVE CONCERN about my research publication

[jamundergrad]

I have paper in previous WORLDCOMP http://www.world-aca...-of-science.org I am worried with the postings http://research.cs.wisc.edu/dbworld/messages/2012-03/1332361790.html and other discussion forums. Almost all of the forums labeled WORLDCOMP as bogus, scam, sham, fraud, fake, etc.

I do not want to claim my WORLDCOMP paper in my CV. Can I submit the same paper to a genuine conference as if this paper was never published in WORLDCOMP? I emailed to Professor Hamid Arabnia many times with my concern on copyright issues in case I submit the paper to a genuine conference but he didn’t respond.

I am an undergraduate student and highly concerned of my career.

[j3doucet]

If the paper has not been published (that is, you withdrew it from the conference after it was accepted), then you can definitely publish it elsewhere. Unless you signed over copyright, you should be fine. If you are worried about it, you could ask the program committee chair at the conference you want to submit to next whether this would be a problem, but I can't imagine it being an issue.

EDIT: I misread your earlier post. You'll have a very hard time (if not impossible time) publishing the paper elsewhere if it's already appeared in the WORLDCOMP proceedings. However, many venues will accept papers which contain as little as 30% original content (if the other 70% are from a paper by the same authors), so there's a good chance you could expand it a bit and publish it at a better conference.

Edited March 28, 2012 by j3doucet

[jemindavis]

Once you signed copyright transfer, you have no way to publish the same paper elsewhere unless WORLDCOMP give you written permission. Tell them that you are not asking for registration fee refund and I think they will be amused.