Reviewing Systems

Available systems

There are a number of reviewing systems, such as (in no particular order):

• HotCRP - also documented on this Wiki at HotCRP
• EDAS
• START/Softconf
• Linklings
• EasyChair
• Dirk Grunwald's original CRP
• Conferencereview.com
• Continue
• MyReview
• WitanWeb
• Conference Management Toolkit (CMT)
• CyberChair

These seem to be obsolete:

• ConfMan
• WIMPE (no current URL available?)

-- FredDouglis - 01 Apr 2008

Experiences with specific systems

General advice

Use established software package and assign a web master. I used Grunwald's Conference Review Package (CRP) . It served well. I had one of my Ph.D. students deal with the software, including implementing minor changes. Since I knew this was a large task, I gave him credit as Web Master, an official ISCA 2005 officer. In the end, he reports that he worked 120 hours on both CRP and the conference web page.

-- excerpted (with permission) from Some Advice for Program Committee Chairs Based on my ISCA 2005 Experience by Mark D. Hill