I noticed that some conference have different deadline for paper submission: an "abstract" submission deadline, before the usual "paper" submission deadline.
For example, on the International Semantic Web Conference 2013 webpage you can read:
Submission dates
Abstracts: May 1, 2013
Full Paper Submission: May 10, 2013
Why do they need the abstract before the paper? To estimate how many papers they'll get?
Answer
From what I have observed, having a specific deadline for abstracts is used for two main reasons: having a rough idea of the number of submissions and organise a bidding for the reviewers.
Having the number of submissions can help deciding of a possible deadline extension and possible to "recruit" more PC members or reviewers if the number largely exceeds the expectation.
Organising a bidding based on the abstract allow the PC members to indicate their preference for each paper (e.g., I want to review this paper, I could review this paper, I couldn't review this paper), so that when the actual papers arrive, the distribution is already organised.
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