- For conference AO (author-only), almost all the attendees are authors (even if they are not speakers), so presumably people only attend when they have a paper, rather than to learn from other papers, the panels or the hallway discussions. (Or they can't get travel funding unless they have a paper at the event. Or the event is of the workshop kind where more or less all participants are invited to speak.)
- For conference CE (community event), a large fraction of the attendees are *not* authors, so either the conference is a "networking" event where people expect to meet others or they consider the papers and other events interesting enough to attend without the "excuse" of having to show up. Or the event is close by a major concentration of networking research or industry, and it beats yet another speakerphone meeting in the home office. Or the meeting is a venue for other activities, such as IEEE committee and board meetings. Or the meeting is in Hawaii in winter..
I think you'd also want a break down by demographics (PhD students, industry, faculty).
But we might also learn something about how conferences are seen in general. If conferences of type AO are dominant, maybe conferences are seen mainly as a vehicle to get a paper into the electronic record (and a line item on the resume), i.e., they fulfill roles that are largely satisfied by journals in other disciplines. Obviously, there is never likely to be a completely clear-cut answer.
Henning
> So the question is whether getting such data would even be a useful
> exercise - even if we had this data, what would we want to do with the
> conclusions?
>
> Joe
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