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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.
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
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.
Try out the system online.
last updated: 04 July 2009
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