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. Our aim here
is to maximize amusement, rather than coherence.
One useful purpose for such a program is to auto-generate submissions to
conferences that you suspect might have very low submission standards. A
prime example, which you may recognize from spam in your inbox, is
SCI/IIIS and its dozens of co-located conferences (check out the very
broad conference description on the WMSCI 2005 website). There's also
a list of known bogus conferences. Using SCIgen to generate submissions
for conferences like this gives us pleasure to no end. In fact, one of
our papers was accepted to SCI 2005! See Examples for more details.
New: We went to WMSCI 2005. Check out the talks and video. You can find
more details in our blog.
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
Share and enjoy,
*** Xanni ***
--
mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
