Conference Service Mandl

Conference Online-Management System (COMS)

COMS is a web application for managing delegate registration, paper submission and paper review. Written in Perl and C, with a MySQL database at the back end, it is a comprehensive and powerful, yet easy to use solution for online conference management.

COMS is free for events with up to 100 participants. For academic conferences, that are not organized for profit, COMS is free independently of the number of participants.

Benefits to your IT Systems Administrator

• COMS runs on our computers and is fully administrated by us. In order to use COMS, you need neither IT support nor IT skills of your own.
• Your IT staff, if you have any, will be liberated to continue doing their usual tasks.

Benefits to the Chair or Conference Administrator

• No installation, you only need Internet access and a web browser
• Can be set up on short notice and will be immediately ready for use
• Highly configurable
• Supports pre-registration, delegate registration, one and two-stage paper submission
• Efficient task assignment, automatic assignment of papers to reviewers based on their preferences
• Supports blind reviews
• Progress tracking
• Template based email communication system
• Powerful data export functions

Referees express their preferences for working on particular submissions during a so-called ‘bidding’ process

• Easy-to-use on-line environment, configurable displays
• Progress tracking

Benefits to Delegates and the Authors of conference papers

• Clear, easy to use registration and paper submission system
• On-line update and maintenance of contact details
• Feedback, status updates and relevant news by email
• On-line consultation of registration status/acceptance of papers
• Online editing of submissions
• Uploading of camera ready papers
• Retrieval of forgotten passwords

Contact us and we will set up a free demo version of COMS for you.

last updated: 17 May 2008