Survey of Conference Management Systems

This article surveys various conference management systems used for managing conferences which are being held worldwide. Each system possesses some common functionality and some functionality which present that particular system. The external interaction specification techniques are further subdivided into techniques for the specification of functions, behavior, and communication. After surveying the systems, we summarize the way their functionalities are used. We have surveyed EDAS, Confious, OpenConf, ConfTool and PaperDyne under the following heads : 1)System 2) Conferences 3) TPC 4) Reviewers 5) Papers 6) Reports and 7)Notifications.