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by ajshankar 2818 days ago
That paper was accepted as a non-reviewed paper. There was no peer-review process.
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Which one? Both that article and this one lists multiple cases where SCIgen-generated papers were waved through:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCIgen#Prominent_results

From the article:

In April of 2005 the team’s submission, “Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy,” was accepted as a non-reviewed paper to the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI), a conference that Krohn says is known for “being spammy and having loose standards.”