Design Of A Web-Based Paper Submission And Reviewing System (PSRS)

Sa Fatumo,Ck Ayo,Jo Daramola

doi:10.4314/gjpas.v14i3.16820

Abstract

Conference planning, organization and administration are very tedious tasks. In most cases the conference programme committee has to convene several meetings where submitted papers (via emails in most cases) are downloaded, discussed and accepted or rejected for presentation at the conference. This paper presents the design of a web-based conference paper management system which facilitates easy and efficient review of technical submissions to conferences. Our proposed system stores authors\' information, abstracts, papers and reviewers\' comments. The process of assignment of papers to reviewers is done using a set of objective parameters to determine the most suitable reviewers for each article. The system also collates camera ready accepted papers to generate conference proceeding for the conference. This work will reduce the amount of paperwork and the need for several meetings by the programme committee thus making conference organization a pleasure. Also the effectiveness of conference organization and management will be substantially improved. Keywords : Conference management, paper submission, paper assignment, web-based development, reviewers\' ranking, ACM Classification: H.3.5 (Web-based services) Global Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences Vol. 14 (3) 2008: pp. 357-362

Highlights

Before the popularity of the Internet, the organization of conferences was mainly based on conventional paper mail by post
REview) project available at http://www.espere.org/ is a consortium of learned publishers investigating the technical and cultural issues involved in the creation, development, and implementation of a Web-based journal manuscript management and peer review system
We have evolved a suitable model for the assignment of conference/journal articles to reviewers based on expertise ranking using a set of objective parameters. This is to reduce the level of subjectivity involved in the paper assignment process, especially when it is done discretionally by the managing editor

Summary

INTRODUCTION

Before the popularity of the Internet, the organization of conferences was mainly based on conventional paper mail by post. There are quite a lot of web-based systems for online management of peer review processes for scholarly journals and conference proceedings. They have specialized features which vary widely, but the more highly developed programs share many characteristics in common. REview) project available at http://www.espere.org/ is a consortium of learned publishers investigating the technical and cultural issues involved in the creation, development, and implementation of a Web-based journal manuscript management and peer review system. We have evolved a suitable model for the assignment of conference/journal articles to reviewers based on expertise ranking using a set of objective parameters This is to reduce the level of subjectivity involved in the paper assignment process, especially when it is done discretionally by the managing editor. This is achieved by matching the subject classification of each paper to the expertise classification of reviewers using the ACM classification template available at http://www.acm.org/class/1998

DESCRIPTION OF THE PSRS ARCHITECTURE

MODE OF IMPLEMENTATION

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