The scientific committee, the program-committee-chair and the reviewers (experts) are a large group of loosely coupled persons, which have to guarantee for the high quality of your conference.
Most committees, especially if they maintain a large team of experts are very international and spread over the whole world.
Therefore, it is important that this group has the right application to do their job in an efficient way.
Eveni supports this process effectively.

One of the most important parts in the review process is to respect the interests of the reviewers. Typically, they are volunteering and therefore, you should avoid that reviewers have to deal with submissions that cover topics they have no interest in or only little knowledge about. The overall goal is to match each submission with the best-suited reviewers.
When the submission deadline has passed and the reviewer profiling is over, the pc-chair has to assign the submissions to the reviewers. The special assignment module of Eveni visualizes the matching quality of the reviewer’s expertise and the submitted documents. As soon as the assignments have been committed, every reviewer will see his personal assignments online.
During the reviewing period, reviewers can access the assigned documents and they can fill out the review reports. Once he has finished, the reviewer commits his review report. Unless a review report is committed, the review editor or pc-chair will not be able to view it.
The pc-chair can always see how many review reports have been finished. If needed, he can use Eveni’s group mail module and send out reminders to ’lazy’ reviewers.
Review editors can monitor the reviewing process and start proposing decisions for specific submissions.
Additionally, they can discuss submissions by attaching related comments. In the ’Review Editing’ section, the review editor sees a list of all submissions. For each submission, the committed review reports are visible.
Based on these reports, he proposes a decision like ’accepted as poster’. Additionally, he can add a justification, describing the rationale for his decision proposal. If more than one review editor is responsible for the same submission, they can discuss their decisions again by attaching comments.
The comments are always shown in historical order.
Only a pc-chair has the privilege to make final decisions.
In this way, Eveni supports efficient collaboration of experts and makes the decision finding transparent to all involved persons.
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