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A few active Calls for Papers closing very soon that cleared basic quality signals (indexing claims, ranking, organizer transparency). Always do your own final checks.

**Closing today (16 Aug)**

* **MMM 2027** – 33rd International Conference on Multimedia Modeling Siem Reap, Cambodia, 5–8 Jan 2027 CCF Rank C, CORE Rank B, DBLP, Springer LNCS Topics: multimedia modeling, multimodal large models, embodied AI, medical multimodal vision, spatial intelligence, etc. Details: [https://callforpaper.org/cfp/call-for-papers-mmm-2027\](https://callforpaper.org/cfp/call-for-papers-mmm-2027)

**Closing 19 Aug**

* **UCC 2026** – 19th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Florianópolis, Brazil [https://callforpaper.org/cfp/call-for-papers-ucc-2026\](https://callforpaper.org/cfp/call-for-papers-ucc-2026)

**Closing 20 Aug**

* **ALCS 2026** – 4th International Workshop on Artificial Learning for Cyber Security (with AICCSA) Sharjah, UAE, 26–29 Oct IEEE Xplore. AI/ML for ransomware, biometrics, healthcare security, generative AI for cyber, etc. [https://callforpaper.org/cfp/call-for-papers-alcs-2026\](https://callforpaper.org/cfp/call-for-papers-alcs-2026) * **WAIP 2026** – IEEE ICDM Workshop on AI for Personalization Shenyang, China (ICDM co-located) Personalized LLMs, digital nudging, privacy-preserving personalization, evaluation of personalized AI. [https://callforpaper.org/cfp/call-for-papers-waip-2026\](https://callforpaper.org/cfp/call-for-papers-waip-2026)

**Reminder:** Indexing alone is not proof of legitimacy. Check the actual organizing committee, past proceedings, fee structure, and whether the venue has a history of publishing in reputable libraries.

You can filter by deadline, subject, or country and export calendar feeds at [https://callforpaper.org\](https://callforpaper.org). The site also maintains an open predatory-conference registry if you want to cross-check suspicious invitations.

Good luck with submissions. Drop any other solid near-deadline venues you’ve spotted in the comments.

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While building [callforpaper.org](https://callforpaper.org) we kept running into sketchy conference invites. Started documenting them instead of just filtering them out.

One example: an organizer running as **worldresearchsociety.com** had 14 "conferences" — molecular biology, AI, soil & water conservation, law, mechanical engineering, you name it — all scheduled for the same two days, same venue, in Alexandria, Egypt. Same template, different subject line pasted in.

Turned this into a public registry: **[callforpaper.org/predatory-database](https://callforpaper.org/predatory-database)\*\*

Data's on GitHub, CC0 licensed: **[github.com/callforpaper/predatory-conferences](https://github.com/callforpaper/predatory-conferences)\*\*

A few things about how it works:

- Every flag needs an archived snapshot (Wayback Machine or git-stored HTML), not just a claim

- Nothing gets deleted or quietly edited — corrections get added on top, old entries stay visible

- Organizers can formally dispute a listing and it shows up next to the original flag

- Anyone can clone the repo and check the raw data themselves

- Monthly Zenodo archive with a DOI, so it's citable

59 organizers, 28 conferences, 18 red flags documented so far. Not selling anything, just think this survives better out in the open than as everyone's private blocklist. Contributions and disputes welcome.