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The blog deals with how my thesis supervisor Professor Jørgen Bang-Jensen, University of Southern Denmark,
has plagiarized my Master's thesis and how the Ministry of Education and Research under the Danish government
sweeps the matter under the carpet
The latter is problematic for all students in Denmark. Because if I can be swept under
the rug, so can you or someone close to you. It is a problem when those chosen to protect
you and me protect other interests. It should be unsatisfactory for all citizens in Denmark
and personally it is unsatisfactory because I, in addition to the violation
https://ufm.dk/forskning-og-innovation/samspil-mellem-viden-og innovation/
viden-netvaerk-og-kommercialisering-til-versomkehter/fa-hjaelp
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for-commercialization/model agreements/faq/who-has-the-rights-to-the-inventions-
when students-participate-in-a-joint-research-project
, it says there
"For ordinary students, it also applies that they are not subject to any
employment relationship. This means that such students personally have all
rights to own results. If students are involved in research projects, it is
therefore necessary for the private company and the student participating in
the project to enter into a separate agreement with those concerned regarding
the right to any inventions.”
But can you trust the words of the Ministry of Education and Research - that the
students personally have all the rights to their own results? Or are there other
considerations that weigh more when it comes down to it?
I then develop two hybrid heuristics based on the transformation, both of which
outperform previous state-of-the-art heuristics in the literature,
for 2-EC. One also performs well against state-of-the-art heuristics for SCP. So
well that it performs better than the 4th best algorithm in the literature.
It performs slower than the 3rd best algorithm in the literature, but finds better
results on a single test instance and equally good on all others, which in itself is a
good result. It is the secondary result of the master's thesis.
The results are the reason that Bang-Jensen invites his new postdoc Marco
Chiarandini to the supervision meetings and that we do a minimal collaboration
with a view to a scientific article, product no. 1. The collaboration consists of
Handing over the results of the master's thesis, including source text,
algorithms and source code, which Bang-Jensen presents at the AIRO2006
conference, Cesena (Italy), 12-15 September 2006. Also, training Chiarandini
in using source code so that he can carry out the experimental experiments
Bang -Jensen and Chiarandini finish writing the article because I am finishing
my education at the University of Southern Denmark
Gross plagiarism
The reviewer claims that there is plagiarism in the products
in that there has been appropriation of results and processes without rightful crediting
of
In 2018, I find product no. 3 by searching the internet and learn that
the majority of the work is done by me, in my master's thesis, including
heuristics for optimization, algorithms for local search, a software platform to perform
the articles' experiments on and a study of the 2-edge-connectivity problem, without
me being credited for it. As I investigate the matter
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Below they have failed to reference the origin of the algorithms, in the source, they have
failed to offer me authorship in product #2 and #3, they have failed to name me, they have
taken my references and used them as they were theirs and they have stated that everything
is in perfect order. They have even stated that it is a practice carried out at the Department
of Mathematics and Computer Science (IMADA) – University of Southern Denmark, where
they are employed. It is gross plagiarism because it is the acquisition of knowledge under
deception and because it deprives me of career opportunities and recognition. It is theft by
the student.
- The committee's
obligations: https://www.sdu.dk/da/om_sdu/organisationen/rektoratet/rektorsekretariatet/praksisudvalget
+committee+on+practice
"Together with Peter Morling, Marco Chiarandini and Jørgen Bang-Jensen have developed
That is when you search for my name on the internet, the above piece of text appears as one of
the first hits on major search engines such as Google, Bing, Yandex, Swisscows etc., because SDU
very convenient in connection with the above complaint, because the message brings Bang-Jensen and
Chiarandini closer to the good results and at the same time it supports their consultation response in the
complaint.
But I cannot recognize the website's statement because I have only collaborated with Bang-Jensen on
a single algorithm – Shortest Path Heuristic and I have never collaborated with Chiarandini on developing
I never get answers to the questions and one can wonder that the Rector's Secretariat/
SDU Law, which deals with access to documents, does not demand a more precise answer from their
employees. Because according to the university's website, they take plagiarism very seriously. But
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On 16 March 2021, I will receive the decision in case no. 2020-01 from the Board for Scientific
have not been consulted and I am not being forwarded the hearing responses of the notified
parties. In part, failure to hear the parties can lead to an incorrect decision being made, because
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the basis for the decision is incorrect or insufficient, and partly it is contrary to NVU's
own rules of procedure § 4, subsection 1, which says:
"§ 4. If the board takes up a case for consideration, it is the responsibility of the
board to obtain and examine all information that is necessary for the board to make
a decision."
There are several of the decision's assessments that do not make sense. There are several of them
Example 1
But why is it relevant to emphasize the reviewer's co-authorship when the reviewer is an
ordinary student with no knowledge and previous research experience?
Example 2
Case 2017-09 concerns a dispute between two university professors. But why is it relevant
to weigh in on a case involving two university professors when the reviewer is an ordinary
student with no knowledge and previous research experience?
Example 3
the core idea for the algorithms, which are used for data generation in product no. 2 and
But those notified have not devised a single algorithm. I was given the task,
to study the concrete problem and develop the algorithms, which appear for the first time in the
master's thesis. Nor does it make sense that the algorithms are
devised by those notified. Because if the reported already had knowledge, then there was
not a basis for doing the master's thesis or for involving me in product no.
1.
Example 4
"The board has also emphasized that, according to the correspondence, the reviewer
was not able to regenerate his calculations himself half a year after the defense of the
thesis in connection with the "review" of product no. 1."
Example 5
"The committee assumes that it is in accordance with practice within the specific subject
area that no reference is made to the source, as a journal article based on a thesis is
used as a reference rather than the thesis, due to the quality control which publication
in a journal entails.”
You can refer to a napkin, a pot shard or something else that contributes to relevant concrete
knowledge. In addition, the author guide to the journal for product no. 1 describes: https://
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/10970037/homepage/forauthors.html
how to refer to a thesis, journal or website, and there is no mention of any separate quality control
It seems that the board has "fabricated" the decision. I think the motive is to clean up those
reported and sweep the case under the carpet. It's appalling. Partly
because it violates the rule of law and partly because it is a threat to everyone
response: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1zG3-
HtOipAQMFaSPgmQFYCgdtvUVTDf6?usp=sharing
Why doesn't the Board for Scientific Misconduct (NVU) send me the hearing responses of the
I am seeking document access to the consultation response on the same day that I receive the
decision on 16 March 2021 and can subsequently conclude that the decision is closely related to
the notified person's consultation response. I conclude that the amount of information that has no
relevance to the points of the complaint is colossal. There is information that is irrelevant to the case
because it takes place after the educational obligation has stopped. There is information that is
irrelevant to the case because it does not relate to the case. It's hard to see the forest for the trees.
I look at three things in the consultation response that are relevant to the case
2. Has the student approved that Bang-Jensen and colleagues may decorate
This is the core issue of the case and which is mentioned in several places in the response to the consultation.
"It was Bang-Jensen and Chiarandini who designed most of the algorithms (with the
exception of LMS)."
I was given the task of studying the specific problem and I have designed and developed
all the algorithms that appear for the first time in the master's thesis
The magnitude of the master's thesis held up against the fact that Bang-Jensen and
Chirandini have other full-time commitments makes it unrealistic that they have studied and
Chirandini is only invited to the tutoring classes after I have found good results, nine months
into the master's thesis (otherwise I would probably never have seen the shadow of him) and
at the time, he is
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partly not within the specific problem and partly most algorithms have already
been developed
The prerequisite for being able to design the algorithms is to study the specific problem
and the technologies used. But if Bang-Jensen and Chiarandini already had this knowledge. So
I should have studied a whole third issue, from the point of view of seeking "new knowledge"?
Is it likely that there is a professor who designs most of the algorithms for the people he/she
University?
Email correspondence
"We reviewed about 1000 emails written among the parties involved
since 2005. 1 We wish to remark that it was our impression that the collabo
ration and the communication among Chiarandini, Bang-Jensen and Morling has not
there have been. Why does NVU not obtain the full e
mail correspondence?
I am looking for document access in the 1000 emails at SDU, and get 473 returns in a very
complicated document access. It takes SDU approx. 2 months to deliver the 473 emails,
which take place over three different deliveries and for each delivery they state that they have
fulfilled the document inspection. This is despite the fact that the response to the consultation
states that the 1000 emails are ready for delivery in a zip archive of 33 MB.
1. The hearing response states that there is a zip archive of 33 MB, which is
available. But SDU never returns the zip archive. Why does SDU not return the zip
archive?
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2. The consultation response states that there are 1000 emails. But SDU return three
different deliveries, which together give 473 emails. Why does SDU not return the 1000 emails?
3. For each of the three deliveries, SDU declares that they have fulfilled the document inspection.
But since none of the deliverables correspond to the content of the consultation response
and since the deliverables are different. Could it be true that SDU has fulfilled the document
inspection?
4. The Rector's Secretariat/SDU Law informs me in a letter that they entrust the retrieval of
emails to Bang-Jensen and Chiarandini, even though they are aware of the complaint at
NVU. That is that there is plenty of time to correct and delete the original email
correspondence. Does the Rector's Secretariat/SDU Law exercise due care here?
Wouldn't it have been more correct to bypass those reported and make an extract from
But even though the email correspondence has been corrected and deleted. Then it cannot hide
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Out of the 473 e-mails in the document inspection, I have extracted 83 e-mails that Bang-Jensen sent
me in the period from 21 May 2005 to 1 November 2006, when the master's thesis was submitted.
Similarly, I have extracted 28 emails that Chiarandini sent to me in the period from 21 May 2005 to 1
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Table 1 shows emails sent by Bang-Jensen, which deal with design proposals or
collaboration on algorithms. Bang-Jensen and Morling collaborate on an algorithm – The
Table 2 is empty because there are neither design proposals from Chiarandini nor
If the claim that Bang-Jensen and Chiarandini designed most of the algorithms,
as described on page 9 of the hearing response, is correct?
Shouldn't that be evident from the e-mail correspondence? And if not?
How have Bang-Jensen and Chiarandini conveyed knowledge to the reviewer?
When did they design the algorithms?
3. Questions about NVU's decision
If the claim that the algorithms were devised by the reviewers is true?
Shouldn't that be evident from the e-mail correspondence? And if not?
How have the notified parties communicated knowledge to the reviewer? When do they have
Again, one can wonder that the Rector's Secretariat/SDU Law, which deals with access
to documents, does not ensure a more precise answer. You can be particularly surprised that
they entrust access to the documents to those notified. That is it's Bang-Jensen and
Chiarandini who hands out emails to the Rector's Secretariat/SDU Law. Didn't have it
Adv. 2. Has the student approved that Bang-Jensen and colleagues may decorate
with the student's results?
In NVU's decision, under the board's overall assessment at the top of page 6, it says that I
have approved product no. 1 before publication, without giving reasons or
documentation for the claim. In the notified person's consultation response, it is also stated
on pages 1, 5, 6, 10, 11 and 15 that I have approved product no. 1, with reference to the
approval taking place in the email below: https://drive.google. com/file/d/
1sA_oFHR6VpyqWcfcaZF1SfXUGaJj9VyN/view?
usp=sharing
But I can't recognize that. I do not remember a single approval during the thesis process,
nor can I recognize that the above email is an approval. For example. it says nothing about
approval or what it is that you approve. But rather that it is a check because I perform
several
checks, of the correctness of the article's algorithms, even long after the
educational obligation has stopped. It doesn't make sense to make one either
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approval in the middle of the process, when the article is published in 2010. If a separate
agreement should have been made, then it should have been made before the project
start.
Yuri Goegebeur is co-author on product no. 3 and if he is not familiar with me and the
master's thesis. Then he has nothing to worry about, in relation to plagiarism and
appropriation of knowledge. It is also apparent from the response to the consultation,
page 4:
But I can't recognize that. I remember that Goegebeur started at the Research
Unit for Statistics, University of Southern Denmark. Where I sat and wrote
thesis and where I had been a part-time programmer in previous years. In the period
from 2006 to 2007, we sit in the office approx. 10 meters apart as the crow flies and
eat lunch together more than 100 times. I wonder why,
that he cannot remember. But there are others who can.
-NVU's answer:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eCFZDy_o8oP1_KtMZVvRtvLJ-fW-Kxic/view?
usp=sharing
It's appalling because it's an outright lie. NVU will not deal with
access to documents at SDU, they will not deal with the documentation obtained, and they
have not obtained the documentation themselves. Anyone who contravenes their own rules
of procedure § 4, subsection 1.
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Every time NVU dodges the questions and sweeps them under the carpet,
even if it is in violation of section 24, subsection of the Public Administration Act. 1,2, which says:
-NVU's answer:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kT71Z0-
qGCHkwSumA3kRgtEM6H6LSr8R?usp=sharing
Core question
Who made the algorithms?
I claim that I have designed all the algorithms in the source and that I have
collaborated with Professor Jørgen Bang-Jensen on a single algorithm, which was also
designed by me, because I had the prerequisites for it, because it was
me who studied the concrete problem.
Professor Jørgen Bang-Jensen creates a website while the case is being processed at
NVU, where he tells the world that he and associate professor Marco Chiarandini have
developed algorithms together with me, with good results. The website will be deleted
immediately, as I am seeking access to the documents which algorithms are in question
and when they were developed? I never get answers to the questions.
I am given the task of studying the problem and creating the algorithms, which is
the size of a master's thesis
Professor Jørgen Bang-Jensen has similar other obligations, which have the
magnitude of a full-time professorship, including 13 MSc
students, 3 PhDs, and 1 postdoc, research, teaching and several trips I am
studying the scientific basis to be able to get the ideas and prerequisites to
be able to design and develop the algorithms I am applying to the board of
studies, SDU for 6 months extra SU, with the argument, that I have found
good results and which are approved by the board of studies The algorithms
appear for the first time in the master's thesis