Web Submission and Review Software

August 2008

Shai Halevi

This is the information page for the Web Submission and Review Software that was written by Shai Halevi from IBM Research. This is a conference management software that provides support for the entire life-cycle of the conference review process, starting with the submissions of papers and ending in the receipt of the camera-ready versions of the accepted papers (and even automatic generation of the table-of-contents and author index for the conference proceedings).

What you can find here:

The latest version of the software (currently 0.62).
User-guides for the program chair, program-committee members, and authors.
A demo (made enitrely of static HTML).
A small testing package for experimenting with the software.

This software is open source, and it is distributed under the terms of the open-source Common Public License (CPL) v1.0. See the terms in the file LICENSE.txt in this package or at http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cpl1.0.php. I now have a sourceforge project for it at http://sourceforge.net/projects/websubrev.

One of the goals of this software was to make administration as easy as possible. In particular, you never need to run scripts etc. In principle, to install this software you just unpack the zip file, copy the webtree subdirectory to some directory in your web tree (call it the BASE directory), then point your browser at that directory and off you go. However, that method of installation requires the web-server to be able to write files in the web-tree, which in some cases is considered a security risk. I therefore provide also a non-web-based installation. See more information in the program chair documentation.

I will very much appreciate any comments that you can give me regarding this software. Please contact me at shaih@alum.mit.edu. I am very grateful to the many people who gave me feedback on this software.

Conferences that used this software

Below is a list of conferences/workshops that I know of that used this package. (Of course, this package is freely available for download so there may be conferences that used it without me knowing about it.) If you used this package and want your conference added to this list, please send me an email.

Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography, SAC 2008
Security and Cryptography for Networks, SCN 2008
IEEE Conference on Computational Complexity, CCC 2008
The ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, PODC 2008
Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, CHES 2008
The ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing, STOC 2008
International Workshop on Group-Oriented Cryptographic Protocols GOCP 2007
Information Security Conference, ISC 2007
Advances in Cryptography, CRYPTO 2007 and CRYPTO 2008
Track C of the International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming, ICALP 2007 and ICALP 2008
International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2007 and ACNS 2008
Advances in Cryptography, EUROCRYPT 2007 and EUROCRYPT 2008
Usable Security Workshop, USEC 2007
The Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2007 and TCC 2008
RSA Conference, Cryptographers' Track, CT-RSA 2007 and 2008
The Haifa Verification Conference, HVC 2006 and HVC 2007
International Conference on Theory and Practice of Public-Key Cryptography, PKC 2006 and PKC 2008