Conferences: Submissions, Reviewing, Program
Problem:
Automate the process of submitting papers to conferences, reviewing those papers, and administrating the conference
Approach
Transform paper-based system using Microsoft Access and e-mail to a Web-based system
Conduct statistical study of variability of ratings of reviewers
Provide registration/monitoring capabilities to authors, reviewers
Provide administrative support to conference leaders, including tailored e-mail to authors, reviewers
Scholarship
Utilize principles of software development, database design, human-computer interfaces, table-driven methodologies, ASP scripting language
Design and run statistical study of reviewing, by sending each of 10 papers to 100 reviewers for reviewing, as part of overall process
Teaching
Student-faculty research, begun in summer 1999 with Weicho Ma '00 and Dorene Mboya '00
Basis of several examples for later classes
Service
System supports the entire computer-science-education community
System empowers conference leaders around the world
Status
Now used by two annual international conferences
ITiCSE 2005
SIGCSE 2005
Poster by students at SIGCSE 2000 in Austin Texas.
Paper co-authored with students presented in June 2002 in Aarhus, Denmark
Current system largely mature, but still being refined at about 38,000 lines of materials.
Currently about 850 reviewers registered (worldwide), with about 335 papers for the annual Symposium and 180 papers for the European conference
created 23 April 2005
last revised 29 April 2005
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