Conference management system

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A conference management system is a web-based software that supports the organization of scientific conferences. It helps the program chair, the conference organizers, the authors and the reviewers in their respective activities.

A conference management system can be regarded as a domain-specific content management system. Similar systems are used today by editors of scientific journals. There are many free open-source and hosted solutions available, some of which are listed below.

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Typical functions and workflows supported by conference management systems include:

receiving paper submissions (PDF upload, collection of bibliographic metadata)
anonymizing submissions
collecting reviewers' topic preferences
collecting conflicts of interest
assigning reviewers to papers
disseminating submissions to reviewers
collecting reviews
monitoring review coverage
sharing reviews among the program committee
ensuring independence of reviews
(reviewers cannot see other reviews for a submission before they have submitted their own)
providing a per-submission discussion forum for the reviewers
ranking reviews and setting acceptance threshold
anonymizing reviews
reporting reviewers' comments and program committee decision to authors
collecting final accepted versions