On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Francesco Potortì <[email protected]>wrote:
> >Dear researcher, > > > >A mediocre quality scientific conference costs ~1M dollars to the world > >just for registration fees. > > A 200-attendants conference with fees of 500$ is 100k$ in registration > fees. How do we get to 1M$? > Hi Francesco, 100k$ is already high compared to the perceived benefit but I am talking about bigger conferences (which still have low impact). With 1000 attendants (I saw even 1500) and $1000 we obtain 1M. This is only the registration fee. There is also travel (BTW today one of the petitioners raised concerns about the harm done to the environment i.e. carbon footprint by traveling) For statistics please see: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~xli/CS-Conference-Accept-Ratio.htm > > -- > Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) Voice: +39.050.315.3058 (op.2111) > ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Mobile: +39.348.8283.107 > via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Fax: +39.050.315.2040 > (entrance 20, 1st floor, room C71) Web: http://fly.isti.cnr.it > _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
