<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi there,<div>All of these are nice, and I am sure each one of us has a few examples to contribute. But from an administration point of view, how do we actually detect/enforce/defend the "substantially different" part? </div><div><br></div><div>It seems we are discussing three related, but distinct, issues:</div><div><br></div><div>*) consensus on what is or is not ethical behaviour when it comes to publishing one's academic work</div><div>*) articulating details of the above, and setting up a set of guidelines/policies around those</div><div>*) enforcement of the said guidelines/policies</div><div><br></div><div>This all need to be clearly articulated in any forthcoming policy. In parallel, we will have to think of:</div><div><br></div><div>*) setting up clear appeal process, as well as the inevitable arbitration channels</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Hossein</div><div><br></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><div>--</div><div>Dr Hossein S. Zadeh</div><div> BSc, MEng, PhD</div><div> GCTLT, MACS CP, MAIS</div><div>Director - DIBA Group Pty Ltd</div><div>7 May Street, Doncaster East, Australia 3109</div><div>Ph: +61 413 024 423</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On 14/12/2011, at 11:32 AM, Lars Taxén wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi,<br><br>Just a small addition to Pekkola's post.<br><br>A similar situation is when you have elaborated a theory that can be<br>applied to various problems in different contexts. A certain<br>contribution would then consist of a common "module" describing the<br>theory, and a specific contribution for each context in which the<br>theory is applied. Each paper is a significant contribution, although<br>it contains a part that is the same in several contributions.<br><br>It would be nice if you could "reuse" the theory-module by just<br>copying the text and write only the specific part. However, this is<br>not possible today unless you have the consent of the publisher of a<br>previous contribution. To me, it does not make much sense to make<br>cosmetic changes in the theory-module just to escape the copy-right<br>rules. A "modular" kind of publishing system would be much<br>appreciated, I believe.<br><br>Lars<br><br><br>2011/12/14 Pekkola Samuli <<a href="mailto:samuli.pekkola@tut.fi">samuli.pekkola@tut.fi</a>>:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hi,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">just a little comment.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The evaluation of an article, whether it is (self-)plagiarism (agree the<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">problems with the term), should be based on the contributions of the paper.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">As long as the contributions in two papers are _significantly_ different,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">there should be no issue of recycling chapters/paragraphs or fear being<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">accused for plagiarism. This means that conf/workshop papers can be updated<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">to journals providing they make significant additions to our knowledge base.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Particularly this is an issue when constructing the systems/models/etc. For<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">example, long time ago I designed, build and evaluated systems. Publishing<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the results of each of those phases meant that I had to recycle the ideas<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and even text from the earlier papers. Let say the first paper(s) was about<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">design principles and features of the to-be system. The second (set of)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">papers were more technical. To understand them and the design rationale<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">behind, I had to describe the design principles from the first (set of)<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">papers. And with the third set of papers, i.e. evaluating the technical<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">construct, I had to describe both the design principles (i.e. the criteria<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">for evaluation) and technical construct (that provided a basis to argue why<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">certain criteria were confirmed/disconfirmed). In other words, a large<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">portion of content of the third set of papers were adapted from the earlier<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">two sets. However, each and every paper still makes different contribution.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">From this perspective, to make strict rules that x% of the text needs to be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">new is bit strange, as a lot of content might be the same (even though<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">rewritten). My two cents is to focus on contributions and their uniqueness<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">and significance.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">samuli<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">--<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Samuli Pekkola<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Professor, Adjunct Professor, PhD<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Head of Department<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Department of Business Information Management and Logistics<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Tampere University of Technology<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">PO Box 541, 33101 Tampere, Finland<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">t: +358 (0)40 586 0791<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">e: <a href="mailto:samuli.pekkola@tut.fi">samuli.pekkola@tut.fi</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>-- <br>Lars Taxén, Associate Professor<br>Department of Science and Technology<br>Campus Norrköping, Linköpings Universitet<br>Rundan 91<br>SE 14645 Tullinge, Sweden<br>mobile: +46 (0)73 0977864<br><a href="mailto:lars.taxen@telia.com">lars.taxen@telia.com</a><br>www.neana.se<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AISWorld mailing list<br>AISWorld@lists.aisnet.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>