Dear Mr. Gatani and Colleagues,

We have received a complaint from Mr. Akavipat, an author of
a short paper published in the proceedings of WWW2004 [1],
that portions of your paper [2] were taken verbatim from his
paper without citation.

According to ACM's policy on plagiarism [3]:

   * Verbatim copying, near-verbatim copying, or purposely
paraphrasing portions of another author's paper;
   * Copying elements of another author's paper, such as equations or
illustrations that are not common knowledge, or copying or purposely
paraphrasing sentences without citing the source; and
   * Verbatim copying of portions of another author's paper with citing
but not clearly differentiating what text has been copied (e.g., not
applying quotation marks correctly) and/or not citing the source
correctly.

We believe your publication of [2] has violated the plagiarism
policy recognized by our profession. Before we take steps to rectify
the situation, we are interested in hearing your views about this
complaint. Will you please respond to this message within two
weeks; i.e., by 12 October 2006?

Thank you for your prompt attention.

Vincent Shen
President, International World Wide Web Conference Committee

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[1] R. Akavipat, L.-S. Wu, F. Menczer: Small World Networks in
Distributed Web Search. Proc. 13th Intl. WWW Conf. Alt. Track Papers and
Posters, pp. 396-397, 2004. ACM Press.
(http://www2004.org/proceedings/docs/2p396.pdf)

[2] Luca Gatani, Giuseppe Lo Re, and Salvatore Gaglio: An Adaptive
Routing Mechanism for Efficient Resource Discovery in Unstructured P2P
Networks. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computational
Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2005, Part III, p. 39, Lecture
Notes in Computer Science 3482. Springer.
(http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/11424857_5
http://www.springerlink.com/index/VTYNP8A47ANR20FB.pdf)

[3] http://www.acm.org/pubs/plagiarism%20policy.html