Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Influence of Emotions in Shaping Decisions

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Influence of Emotions in Shaping Decisions,"
by Aritra Ghosh and Shihong Huang,
in the Proceedings of the IEEE National Aerospace and Electronics Conference (NAECON), July 2019

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE’s Publication Principles.

This paper contains significant portions of original text from the paper cited below. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission of the lead author of the original paper. Aritra Ghosh was responsible for the misconduct, and was done without the approval of his coauthor.

“Emotionally-Informed Decisions: Bringing Gut’s Feelings into Self-adaptive and Co-adaptive Software Systems”
by Emmanuelle Tognoli and Shihong Huang


Traditional software systems are rapidly learning skills that can beat human activities; humans still retain superior in the context of decision-making where emotions are involved. Human emotions are full of uncertainty and hence self-adaptive systems have yet to acquire a "gut's feeling". In this paper, we have discussed the influence of human emotions to quantify uncertainty and to contribute to the software's adaptation process.