Abstract

Internet has been recognized and accepted by the public and organizations around the world as a new and exciting opportunity for expanding the management through WWW site and changing the way those companies, large and small, do business. Conference Management System (CMS)--a web-based information and database management application system is developed to provide the solution to a large academic information management system for international professional conference. CMS consists of a 3-tier client/server application framework. CMS object is not a monolithic piece of code; instead, it is more like a Lego of cooperating parts that we can break apart and then reassemble along the 3-tier client/server line. The front tier displays the visual aspects of the CMS. These visual objects typically live on the client. The middle tier works with the server objects that represent the persistent data and the CMS logic functions. The back tier is the database that stores all the system information, and it can also be administrated without influences from the front and middle tier. Middle-tier server objects interact with their clients (the view objects) and implement the logic function of the CMS. The main functions of Conference Management System (CMS) are to interactively collect conference papers and their corresponding information from the web site, putting them into database and then allocate these papers among the Program Committee members. Also it provides all the information to the General Chair and assists administrating the Conference Management System and database.