I tried to google it, but, the answers on various forums confused me. I see the "Proceedings of the IEEE" and "Conference Proceedings". I am almost positive that they are two different things, but, I would like to get a confirmation. And the second thing is the papers presented in an IEEE conference "getting published" or "being available on IEEE Xplore". I don't know if those two are different or one and the same.
I would like some one to answer these two questions for me. Thank you.