So by getting the abstract accepted, I'm already past the difficult part of the review process? (as long as my paper matches my abstract, that is).

That cheers me up as my last paper was rejected (no abstract submission there)! So knowing this makes me feel (somewhat) better!

Hi,

I'm new here (PhD in Engineering). Currently 2nd year.

I've started to get some results so i wrote an abstract and submitted to a (slightly above average) conference in my area.It got accepted (yay), but i'm wondering what this means in terms of paper acceptance? Does having an abstract accepted increase the chance of having the full paper accepted? Do you even need to submit an abstract at all? Can i submit other work to the conference without submitting an abstract?

I know i'm probably just worrying while i should be writing, but i've never known any conferences to do abstract submission first in my area so i'm wondering how it effects everything else? if that makes sense?

Thanks for any insight ^^