International academic conferences

The Economics of International Conferences

I deally, an international conference provides a meeting place where the participants can present and discuss new ideas, research topics, and results. Exposure to state-of-the-art work should help to identify interesting research tracks for today and define new directions for the future. While attendees should get an introduction to high-quality research, conferences should give presenters the ...

iSNAC: Infrastructureless Social Networking at Academic Conferences

Researchers on Mobile Ad Hoc and Delay-Tolerant Networking have been on a quest of the “killer applications” for such a technology to be useful in real civilian scenarios [1]. On the other hand, support of ubiquitous social networking is a major thrust driving research and development of mobile apps. We have identified the need for Mobile Ad Hoc and Delay-Tolerant Networking services at venues ...

Tracking the Relevance of Academic Conferences

An academic conference typically span a wide range of topics which changes with time. It is known that topics of conferences in different areas may overlap. Constantly, researchers are interested in the trend of a conference like, what the most popular topic/method/problem in this year’s papers is. The relevance of two different conferences reflects such a change as it is an indicator of interd...

Making the best of international conferences.

Over the years, I have learnt the importance of networking. This is how we can inspire and support each other in the belief that we are here to build something new, something stronger than our day-to-day individual, academic matters such as publishing and attracting funding. The most important things that happen at big conferences are for me the meetings between colleagues – new colleagues as w...

International conferences: are they any use?