It’s a good idea to try to reproduce someone else’s results. But when doing so, it’s important to give credit to the original authors, by making appropriate citations.
It’s not a good idea to copy someone else’s article, only changing the author list, and submitting it to another conference/journal. I’m glad to see IEEE takes appropriate measures when such a thing happens. And I am still amazed it actually happened…
That happened to me once, it was quite odd to see a version of my article that was word-for-word identical but with just the author names changed.
In the example above, there is a certain ironic quality given the topic of the paper!
Nice work on this blog.
Regards — Ian.