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EasyChair is a free conference management system that is flexible, easy to use, and has many features to make it suitable for various conference models. It is currently probably the most commonly used conference management system.

If you would like to know why you should use EasyChair for your conference, look at this image!

For all other questions contact the main system developer.

What EasyChair Helps You to Do

EasyChair has been designed to help program chairs to cope with the complexity of the refereeing process. The current version supports

  1. management and monitoring of the program committee;
  2. sophisticated and flexible management of the access of PC members and referees to papers and conflicts of interests;
  3. automatic paper submission;
  4. paper assignment based on the preferences of PC members;
  5. list of the latest events;
  6. submission of reviews;
  7. sending email to PC members, referees and authors;
  8. monitoring email;
  9. online discussion of papers;
  10. the author response (aka rebuttal) phase, when the author can respond to the reviews;
  11. automatic preparation of conference proceedings

and many other features. In fact, EasyChair is flexible enough to have been used for evaluating project proposals.

Supported Models

Currently, EasyChair supports two models.

  1. The standard model is intended for conferences having a single program committee. The papers are distributed among PC members, normally based on their preferences.
  2. The multi-track version is for conferences such as IJCAI having multiple tracks. Each track has its own program committee and one of more track chairs. This model requires a 'superchair' to monitor or supervize the work of the tracks.

For each of the supported models the users can choose among various options to adjust the system to their requirements. For example, she can choose to use anonymous submissions.

In addition to the supported models, EasyChair may offer some other features. For example, special features for multi-conferences are under implementation for FLoC 2006.

Dear Andrei,

We are organising MFPS in Birmingham next year and right now we are looking into different software packages to support the work of the PC. I remember that the one used for LICS last year (which was based at Manchester) was excellent, in fact the best I ever had to deal with. So far I have not been able to find out the name or the vendor of that package. Can you give me a pointer?
 
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