Design and implementation of a collaborative conference management system

In the last few years, several Web-based conference management systems have been developed and used by many international conferences. However, almost all of them were built on stand-alone Web servers. Their fault-tolerance, scalability and ability of responding to dispersed users are limited. Aimed at addressing these problems, this paper presents a collaborative conference management system, whose fault-tolerance, scalability and ability of responding to dispersed users are greatly enhanced by collaboration technologies. A prototype system has been implemented and used to facilitate the management of submissions and paper reviews of the CSCWD2008 conference.