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From euro-par-ab-request@ee.surrey.ac.uk Tue Jun  6 15:21:24 1995
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 14:10:23 +0100
To: Euro-Par-ab@ee.surrey.ac.uk
From: Chris Jesshope (C.Jesshope@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
Subject: EURO-PAR plagiarisms
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This e-mail gives a comprehensive account on the case of a plagiarism concerning papers submitted to EURO-PAR 95 and subsequently invested on behalf of the Steering and Programme Committees of the EURO-PAR conference.

History of the case:

During the meeting of the Programme Committee (PC) of EURO-PAR'95, last March, it was discovered that plagiarised papers had been submitted to the conference. The case was brought to the attention of the Steering Committee (SC) of EURO-PAR, which decided to further pursue the issue, by conducting an investigation.

The investigation has reached some conclusive results, which point to a single name behind these plagiarisms: Constantinos V. Papadopoulos, 77 Aristeidou Str., Kallithea, GR-17671, Greece.

The investigation conducted with the help of several people around the world, has identified so far, with conclusive evidence, that the real person C.V.Papadopoulos, address of him 77 Aristeidou Str., Kallithea 17671, GR, is the person behind of all listed below cases.

The conclusions are based on (a) copies of 'his' papers compared against papers/reports received from his victims, (b) on e-mails and correspondence received from his victims and (c) on copies of correspondence exchanged between C.V.Papadopoulos (and/or other ghost persons) and the involved Conf. and Journal's officials, which the latter have provided us.

Results of the investigation:

(a) C.V.Papadopoulos is a real person. He is currently registered as a Ph.D. student at the Univ. of Piraeus, GR (earlier he was registed at the National Technical Univ. of Athens, but he was expelled because of plagiarism cases).

(b) C.V.Papadopoulos has managed to publish several plagiarized papers to international journals and conferences (see section A below), he has submitted several plagiarized papers (see section B below), and he has several suspicious published papers in his CV (see section C below).

(c) ftp over Internet seems to be the means C.V. Papadopoulos has used for his actions. Unfortunately, the current state of the art in the area of authentication, access control, authors's rights, etc are unable to identify, beyond doubt, the intruder's ftp action.

(d) All plagiarism cases though they involve various names of authors and affiliations, they all give as correspondence address that of C.V. Papadopoulos mentioned above.

(e) Some plagiarism cases of C.V.Papadopoulos were known by offended authors much earlier than the time the SC and PC of EURO-PAR found out, but were not publicized. This gave him time to continue his practice.

What it is proposed:

a) the offended authors, publishers, etc, to take the initiative to react the way they think appropriate.

b) the offended authors to react the way they think appropriate towards publishers, editors, Papadopoulos, etc, in order to get the credit deserved for their plagiarized work.

c) the CS community to think of measures and techniques, of new refereeing methods, tools, etc., that may prevent such phenomena in the future.

d) the above case to be publishised by everyone as widely as possible.

Acknowledgements:

The SC and the PC of EURO-PAR wishes to pay tribute to (a) the referees of EURO-PAR'95 who spotted the submitted plagiarized papers, (b) offended authors who kindly provided evidence and (c) Narayanan Shivakumar from Stanford, the SCAM tool of whom, has remarkably identified most of the below listed sources of plagiarisms, (d) and last but by no means least to Costas Halatsis who has contributed much of his valuable time in conducting this investigation.

The Steering Committee of EURO-PAR conferences

Chris Jesshope, Chairman

1) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "On the Heterogeneity of Distributed Databases - Integrating Commit Protocols"
Authors: Constantinos V. Papadopoulos, Univ. of Piraeus and KEPYO, GR
Published at: IEEE Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Poland, June 1994

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "Integration of Commit Protocols in Heterogeneous Databases"
Authors: Ayellet Tal (Princeton Univ), Rafael Alonso (Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory),
Source: Princeton technical report TR-375-92

2) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "Provably Optimal Algorithms for Signal Routing"
Authors: Constantinos V. Papadopoulos, Univ. of Piraeus, GR
Published at: Journal of Computer Systems Science and Engineering, November 1994, vol.9, no 4.

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "Provably Good Performance-Driven Global Routing"
Authors: Jason Cong, Andrew Kahng, Gabriel Robins, UCLA
Sources: UCLA technical report CSD-910013, April 91 and IEEE CAD, vol 11, no 6, 1992.

3) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "A New Hashing Algorithm for Parallel Processors"
Authors: Constantinos V. Papadopoulos, National Technical Univ. of Athens, GR
Published at: Parallel Algorithms and Application Journal, Vol 4, November 1994

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "Work Efficient Hashing on Parallel and Vector Computers"
Authors: Thomas J. Sheffler and Randal E. Bryant, CMU
Source: CMU report MCU-CS-92-172

4) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "On the Parallel Execution of Combinatorial Heuristics"
Authors: Constantinos V. Papadopoulos, Univ. of Piraeus, GR
Published at: IEEE Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Massively Parallel Computing Systems (MPCS), Los Alamitos, CA, May 1994

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "A Massively Distributed Parallel Genetic Algorithm (mdpGA)"
Authors: Shumeet Baluja, CMU
Source: CMU technical report CMU-CS-92-196R

5) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "On the Parallelism of Data"
Authors: Constantinos V. Papadopoulos, Univ. of Piraeus, GR
Published at: Proceedings of Parallel Languages and Architectures Europe, PARLE'94, Athens, 1994

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "Relations + Reductions = Data-Parallelism"
Authors: V.Austel, R.Bagrodia, M.Chandy, M. Dhagat, UCLA
Source: UCLA report CSD-930009, latest version to appear in the J. of Parallel and Distributed Computing

6) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "Optimal Algorithms for Online Scheduling of Parallel Process"
Authors: Constantinos V. Papadopoulos, Univ. of Piraeus
Published at: Proceedings of Parallel Languages and Architectures Europe ,PARLE '94, Athens, 1994

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "Optimal Online Scheduling of Parallel Jobs with Dependencies"
Authors: Anja Feldman (CMU), Ming-Yang Kao (Duke Univ), Jiri Sgall (CMU), Shang-Hua Teng (MIT),
Source: CMU report CMU-CS-92-189, Proc. STOC'93, 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing

7) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "A Formal Study on the Fault Tolerance of Parallel and Distributed Systems"
Authors: Constantinos V. Papadopoulos, Univ. of Piraeus, GR
Published at: IEEE Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Architectures and Algorithms for Parallel Processing (ICA^3PP 95), Australia, April 1995

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "On the Fault Tolerance of Some Popular Bounded-Degree Networks"
Authors: Tom Leighton (MIT), Bruce Maggs (NEC Research Institute, Princeton), Ramesh Sitaraman (Princeton Univ)
Source: Princeton report CS-TR-385-92

NOTE: the above paper is also a plagiarized submission to the Journal of Discrete and Applied Mathematics (see section B, no 8).

B) Plagiarized SUBMITTED papers of C.V.Papadopoulos and other innocent or unknown persons, however, all coming from the same correspondence address: 77 Aristeidou Str., Kallithea, GR-17671, GR. This is the current home address of C.V. Papadopoulos!

For obvious reasons, we name all these papers as coming from C.V.Papadopoulos address, though he has renounced that he is the originator of some of these submissions! For the cases of submissions,for which we have verified that the involved author(s) had nothing to do with the act of plagiarism, we use variables X,Y,.. (we do not want to expose their names, and in any case, they have been informed about it). In the cases of submissions, where we have not been able to contact/locate the author(s) (certainly innocent ones), we give their names, in order to give them the opportunity to react to this plagiarism action by C.V. Papadopoulos. In all cases, we give the given author(s)' affiliation in the plagiarized submission (the person behind these plagiarisms has used several different affiliations). We do not know at this stage the extend of plagiarized submissions; We receive almost every day information about new actions of this short, but we were not able or did not have the time to follow each of them. In any case, the central meaning of this e-mail to the CS community is to beware of C.V.Papadopoulos.

1) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "Maintaining Cache Coherency for Shared Memory Multiprocessors"
Authors: Evangelia G. Karagianni, Univ. Patras, GR (I have not locate her or understood if she is a real person; she is unknown to the Univ. of Patras)
Submitted at: EURO-PAR'95

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "Cache Coherency for Shared Memory Multiprocessors Based on Virtual Memory Support"
Authors: Karin Petersen, Kai Li, Princeton Univ.
Source: Princeton report 1992, TR-400

2) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "A Multiprocessor Architecture for Concurrent Data Structures"
Authors: Constantinos V. Papadopoulos, IBM Zurich! (certainly he is not there)
Submitted at: EURO-PAR'95

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "Transactional Memory: Architectural Support for Lock-Free Data Structures"
Authors: Maurice Herlihy (DEC Cambridge Res. Lab), J.Elliot B. Moss(Univ. of Massachusetts)
Source: DEC technical report CRL-92-07

3) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "Implementation of Dynamic Data Structures on Distributed Memory Multiprocessors"
Authors: Constantinos V. Papadopoulos, IBM Zurich!
Submitted at: EURO-PAR'95

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "Supporting Dynamic Data Structures on Distributed Memory Machines"
Authors: Anne Rogers (Princeton Univ), Martin Carlisle (Princeton Univ), John Reppy (AT &T Bell Labs), Laurie Hendren (McGill Univ)
Source: Princeton report TR-447-94, also to appear in ACM Trans. Progr. Lang. and Systems

4) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "Verification of Concurrent Objects"
Authors: Evangelia G. Karagianni (Univ. of Pittsburgh) (Please notice the difference of the given affiliation for her, compared to paper no 1 in this category)
Submitted at: 5th Hellenic Informatics Conf, 1995, GR

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "A Library of Concurrent Objects and Their Proof of Correctness"
Authors: Jeannette M. Wing and Chun Gong, CMU
Source: CMU report CMU-CS-90-151

5) Paper of C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "Improving Applications' performance on distributed mshared memory multiprocessors with cache coherence protocols"
Authors: Mr. X, Univ, of Wisconsin at Madison (Mr. X has been contacted, he is innocent, he is not located at Wisconsin!)
Submitted at: EUROMICRO-95

Source of Plagiarism

Title: "Application Specific Protocols for User-Lever Shared Memory"
Authors: B. Falsafi, A. Lebeck, S. Reinhardt, J. Schoinas, M. Hill, J. Larus, A. Rogers, D. Wood, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Source: Proceedings of Supercomputing'94, Nov. 1994, Linkoping, Sweden

6) Paper by C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: "Concurrency Control of Atomic Accesses in Distributed File Systems"
Authors: Constantinos V. Papadopoulos, Univ. of Piraeus, GR
Submitted to: EUROMICRO'95

Source of Plagiarism
****Note: At the momment of composing this e-mail, we do not have at hand the source paper. We expect it from the original authors, who have been contacted.

Title: "An optimal algorithm for concurrent accesses to a single replicated file"
Authors: X. Jia (Queensland Univ., AU), Yanchun Zhang
Source: IFIP Trans. A, 1992, vol A-12, and Proc. Algorithms, Software, Architecture, Information Processing, Madrid, Spain

7) Paper by C.V. Papadopoulos

The source of plagiarism, if any, of this submission has not been identified so far. I give below the abstract of this paper for possible identification.

Title: "Communication Complexity of Specialized Paralllel Algorithms"
Authors: Brayan D. Clarke and Sideris Carderinis (Univ. of Minnesota) (I have not been able to contact both of them)
Submitted to: 5th Hellenic Informatics Conference, 1995, GR
Abstract: This paper studies the relationship between parallel computation cost and communication cost for performing divide-and-conquer (D&C) computations on a parallel system of p processors. The parallel computation cost is the maximal number of the D&C nodes that any processor in the parallel system may expand, whereas the communication cost is the total number of cross nodes. A cross node is a node which is generated by one processor but expanded by another processor. A new scheduling algorithm is proposed, whose parallel computation cost and communication cost are at most [N/p] and pdh, respectively, for any D&C computation tree with N nodes, height h, and degree d. Also, lower bounds on the communication cost are derived. In particular, it is shown that for each scheduling algorithm and for each positive eC < 1, which can be arbitrarily close to 0, there are values of N, h, d, p and eT (>0), for which if the parallel computation cost is between N/p (the minimum) and (1+eT)N/p, then the communication cost must be at least (1-eC)pdh. Therefore, the proposed scheduling algorithm is optimal with respect to the communication cost, since the parallel computation cost of the algorithm is near optimal.
Keywords: Communication complexity, parallel algorithms, scheduling algorithms

Source of Plagiarism

Title: ?
Authors: ?
Source: ?

8) Paper by C.V.Papadopoulos

Title: A formal study of networks reliability
Authors: C.V. Papadopoulos (National Technical Univ of Athens), Mr. X (Mr. X. has been contacted, he is innocent of this case)
Submitted to: Discrete Applied Mathematics

Source of Plagiarism:

Same as no 8 of Section A!

C) List of remaining papers listed as published papers in C.V.Papadopoulos' CV, as this CV has been provided to us by Univ. of Pireaus, where C.V. Papadopoulos is enrolled as Ph.D. student.
The source of plagiarism of these papers, if any, has not been identified so far. For those papers, we happen to have at hand, we give their abstract. Again, in this caregory, we use variables in place of innocent/unlocated authors The information on these papers in incomplete; we expect that the current Ph.D. supervisor of C.V.Papadopoulos to be able to help.

1. Papadopoulos, C.V. and Mr. X (Mr. X is innocent)
Modelling the complexity of parallel and VLSI computations with Boolean circuits.
Microprocessors and Microsystems, Feb. 1995, vol.19, (no.1):43-50.
Pub type: Theoretical or Mathematical.

Abstract: Complexity theory seeks to understand the resource requirements inherent in the solution of problems on computers. It also seeks to understand the relative computational power of different models. The Turing model is difficult to work with, in part because of the impossibility of studying strictly finite structures. Boolean circuits are playing a more important role in our understanding of computation. They are useful as models in situations as far removed as VLSI design and parallel computation. The branching program challenges our intuitions. It has been shown in an indirect fashion that constant-width branching programs can 'count', but not exactly how. Algebraic methods give a handle and allow us for the first time to study complicated combinatorial structures.

2. Papadopoulos, C.V.
Stochastic modeling of multiprocessor reliability.
IN: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Massively Parallel Computing Systems (MPCS). The Challenges of General-Purpose and Special-Purpose Computing. (Proceedings of the First International Conference on Massively Parallel Computing Systems (MPCS). The Challenges of General-Purpose and Special-Purpose ComputingProceedings of the First International Conference on Massively Parallel Computing Systems (MPCS) The Challenges of General-Purpose and Special-Purpose Computing, Ischia, Italy, 2-6 May 1994). Los Alamitos, CA, USA: IEEE Comput. Soc. Press, 1994. p. 620-30.
Pub type: Practical.

Abstract: Colored Petri nets have been shown to create greatly simplified models that have many fewer places and transitions and can be applied to families of systems with minimal changes. The paper presents a modeling tool that uses a form of colored stochastic Petri nets to model the performance of fault tolerant multicomputers as resources fail. The model can be viewed as having tokens that collect to form compound tokens in a manner somewhat analogous to the formation of molecules from atoms. Therefore we call it the Polyvalent Stochastic Petri Net (PSPN) modeling system. Using this approach simple and relatively similar models can be used for systems of varying sizes and configuration. Complex actions such as backtracking and routing around failed links in a communications system can be expressed in the transitions. Failed parts are modeled by simply removing a resource token from a place.

3. Papadopoulos, C.V.; el Zahni, A.H. (Mr. el Zahni should react!)
Protection and routine algorithms for network management: the case of transmission networks. (Nineteenth EUROMICRO Symposium on Microprocessing and Microprogramming (EUROMICRO 93). Open System Design: Hardware. Software and Applications, Barcelona, Spain, 6-9 Sept. 1993). Microprocessing & Microprogramming, Sept. 1993, vol.38, (no.1-5):163-70.
Pub type: Practical.

Abstract: The authors define several routing and protection problems which arise in transmission network planning and management. They then describe network planning algorithms and software tools aimed at providing network protection. Finally they introduce the concept of automatic network protection system and briefly discuss some related problems.

4. Papadopoulos, C.V.
A Protocol Architecture for Eliminating Latency in ATM Networks.
Microprocessing and Microprogramming Journal, January 1996.

5. Papadopoulos, C.V.
Integrating Formal Methods in Software Engineering.
Software-Concepts and Tools Journal, August 1995.

6. Papadopoulos, C.V.
Exploitation of IP Datagrams for Internetworking Mobile Computers.
Computer Communications Journal, October 1995.

7. Papadopoulos, C.V.
Programming Language Support for Distributed Systems with Multicast Communication.
Computer Communications Journal, December 1995.

8. Papadopoulos, C.V.
Optimizing the Response Time of Multiserver Networks.
European Transactions on Telecommunications Journal, April 1995.

9. Papadopoulos, C.V.
Statistical Measurements on IP Networks as a Basis for ATM Switch Design.
Computer Communications Journal, February 1996.

10. Papadopoulos, C.V.
Evaluation of Multigrid Algorithms on Message-passing Multiprocessors.
Parallel Algorithms and Applications Journal, September 1995.

11. Papadopoulos, C.V. and Rudolf C. Hofmann (please react)
Performance Modelling of a Distributed ISDN Protocol Test System.
IEEE Proceedings of the 1st Int. Conf. on Architectures and Algorithms for Parallel Processing (ICA^3PP '95), Australia, April 1995

Abstract : Conformance testing of communication protocols has recently become a major issue in the context of OSI based standardization of protocols. The aim of conformance testing is to assure that a protocol fulfills an OSI protocol test system that has been installed for conformance testing of the ISDN D-channel signalling protocol. Using a general approach for performance and evaluated, based on runtimes as obtained from measurements of the test system. It is demonstrated that significant performance improvements can be achieved once the process scheduling strategy at the ISDN protocol testers is properly adjusted.

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