EasyChair
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{{Infobox software
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| developer = Andrei Voronkov
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| programming language = Perl
| operating_system = Linux
| genre = Academic conference abstract management
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EasyChair is a web-based conference management software system.{{Cite book | last1 = Cristo | first1 = P. | last2 = Martinho | first2 = R. | chapter = AEMS: Towards an Advanced Event Management System | doi = 10.1007/978-3-642-24355-4_9 | title = ENTERprise Information Systems | series = Communications in Computer and Information Science | volume = 220 | pages = 82 | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-3-642-24354-7 }}[http://lasecwww.epfl.ch/pub/lasec/doc/LPG07.pdf Swee-Won Lo, Raphael C.-W. Phan, and Bok-Min Goi: On the Security of a Popular Web Submission and Review Software (WSaR) for Cryptology Conferences] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104200851/https://lasecwww.epfl.ch/pub/lasec/doc/LPG07.pdf |date=4 November 2021 }}: Comparison of EasyChair with other related systems (Appendix C, Related work). Workshop on Information Security Applications, 2007. It has been used since 2002 in the scientific community for tasks such as organising research paper submission and review. In 2012, EasyChair added an open access online publication service for conference proceedings.
Description
EasyChair is a paid web-based conference management software system used, among other tasks, to organize paper submission and review, similar to other event management system software such as OpenConf. EasyChair used to be run by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manchester but now it is a commercial service, owned by EasyChair Ltd. in Stockport (established 2016).{{Cite web |title=EasyChair |url=https://easychair.org/overview |access-date=2023-09-13 |website=easychair.org}} EasyChair used to be free, for standard service, but as of 2022, only minimal services are free.
The EasyChair website also provides an open access online publication service for conference proceedings.{{cite web |title=EPiC Series in Computing |url=https://easychair.org/publications/EPiC/Computing |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200215200412/https://easychair.org/publications/EPiC/Computing |archive-date=15 February 2020 |access-date=20 October 2022 |publisher=EasyChair}} When launched in 2012, the service was for computer science only, but in 2016 it was expanded to all sciences.{{cite web |date=17 Jan 2016 |title=EasyChair EPiC Series Opens for Areas Other than Computing |url=http://easychair.org/news_item.cgi?id=1718654659 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180314193312/http://www.easychair.org/news_item.cgi?id=1718654659 |archive-date=14 March 2018 |access-date=20 October 2022 |publisher=EasyChair}}
History
The EasyChair software has been in continuous development since 2002. {{asof|2015}}, the code base consists of nearly 300,000 lines of code, and it has been used by more than 41,000 conferences.{{cite book |last1=Voronkov |first1=Andrei |title=Distributed Computing and Internet Technology - 12th International Conference, ICDCIT 2016 |date=2015 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-28033-2 |editor1-last=Bjørner |editor1-first=Nikolaj |series=LNCS |volume=9581 |pages=IVI-XVII |chapter=The Design of EasyChair |editor2-last=Prasad |editor2-first=Sanjiva |editor3-last=Parida |editor3-first=Laxmi}} More than two and a half million users in the scientific community reported using it in 2019.{{cite book |last1=Kanav |first1=Sudeep |title=Computer Aided Verification - 26th International Conference |last2=Lammich |first2=Peter |last3=Popescu |first3=Andrei |date=2014 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-319-08866-2 |editor1-last=Biere |editor1-first=Armin |series=LNCS |volume=8559 |pages=167–183 |chapter=A Conference Management System with Verified Document Confidentiality |editor2-last=Bloem |editor2-first=Roderick}}
See also
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External links
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