I've got a positive notification on my paper today. I used a word "positive" but not "of acceptance", because it is almost equivalent to "reject". Why? I tracked the history of this conference series, and compared with the records of DBLP and Springer. This conference series accepts many full papers and a smaller number of short papers with a considerable number of extended abstracts. Short papers and extended abstracts are presented in the form of posters, and only short papers are included into a LNCS book. The notification looks that all the accepted papers are included into the LNCS, but it is not the case. My case is "extended abstract", that I consider a kind of rejection in this conference. This conference series lacks academic sincerity anyhow.




These years since 2013, everything has changed in many conferences around the world. Many good conferences have become clubs or sororities. We should revive intelligent diversity and respect to audience in academia.