Konferenzservice Mandl

All users of COMS will assume one or several of the following roles:

System Administrator – This role is exclusively reserved for staff at IT Services Mandl.
Chair – The Conference Chair configures the system, assigns roles to users, assigns tasks to reviewers and editors, accepts/rejects papers, exports data, etc. There can be several Chairs for one conference and the Chair can delegate tasks to Conference Administrators.
Conference Administrator – The task of Conference Administrators is to support the Chair. They share almost all the privileges of the Chair, except that they cannot assign the roles of ‘Chair’ or ‘Conference Administrator’ to other users.
Referee – Referees can indicate the papers they would like to work on (if the bidding feature is activated). Once the Chair or a Conference Administrator has assigned papers to a Referee, he or she will work online on the assignments and give the assessments.
Editor – The Editor role will not be needed for all conferences. If Editors are used, they are each assigned a number of conference submissions. They will inspect and – where needed – modify the texts of submissions, in order to ensure a consistent style or formatting and to correct linguistic errors.
Author – Any registered COMS user who has submitted a conference paper is automatically assigned the role of ‘Author’. Authors can submit, edit and withdraw their papers.
Unprivileged User – Any registered COMS user who has not been assigned any particular role can still edit and maintain his personal profile. As far as the features are activated, any Unprivileged User, can submit conference papers from within COMS (and thereby become an Author) or they can register for participating in the conference. Unprivileged Users can also be reached by bulk email and they might be assigned roles such as Conference Administrator, Referee or Editor by the Chair.

Depending on a user's status, different functionality will be displayed. The screenshots show the main navigation tabs for different users.