Abstract

This paper describes an online conference management system to be used by three groups of users, authors, reviewers and program chair(s). Authors can submit their papers on-line; the reviewers (program committee members) can use the system to select, in an on-line auction, the papers in their domain of expertise for review and later download and review papers assigned to them; and finally the program chair(s) can use the system to automatically perform an initial assignment of papers. This assignment is based on the reviewers’ preference from the auction process as well as certain guidelines used in avoiding conflict of interest. The system also facilitates the program committee in debating the review and converging to a decision about the papers. The authors can directly get the results of the review and the blind comments from the reviewers, online. This system is implemented using Java servlet communicating with a MySQL database server.