Call for papers.
The organizers for an academic conference will send it out to fill the schedule.
There is a glut of conferences, therefore glut of CFPs.
Although, more problematic are reviewing of those papers once submitted, which is more time intensive.
"Submitted to the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 2005... Note: We never received official notification of whether the paper was accepted or rejected."
Somewhat relevant (and more amusing) is the story of Scigen[1], a tool that three MIT CS PhD students put together to generate fake but legitimate-looking papers in order to troll conferences with low/no acceptance standards.
Their site also tells the story of submitting and attempting to present a paper to shame one of these spammy, fake conferences.
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[ 2.8 ms ] story [ 34.9 ms ] threadIt's an academic thing.
Although, more problematic are reviewing of those papers once submitted, which is more time intensive.
From http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/
"Submitted to the 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics, Orlando, FL, July 2005... Note: We never received official notification of whether the paper was accepted or rejected."
Their site also tells the story of submitting and attempting to present a paper to shame one of these spammy, fake conferences.
[1] http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
Oh dear :-(