Microsoft CMT – Hosted and Scalable Academic Conference Management System
The Conference Management Toolkit (CMT) is sponsored by Microsoft Research. CMT runs on Microsoft Azure cloud platform with data geo-replicated across data centers. It is highly secure, scalable, and reliable. CMT handles the most complex workflows of academic conferences. Its functionalities are fully accessible through web based interface.
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Multiple Roles
Chair, senior meta-reviewer, meta-reviewer, reviewer, author, proceedings editor
Multi-Track Support
No limit on number of tracks in a conference with each track independently configured
Customizable Form
All forms are customizable with ability to configure question visibility independently
Full Submission Life Cycle
Abstract, full paper, supplementary material, revision, camera-ready, presentation
Instruction Message
Welcome message for authors, reviewers and meta-reviewers in rich format
File and Media
Unlimited file upload. Max file size 100MB. Support pdf, docx, audio, video and other file types.
Conflicts Management
Domain conflict, submission conflict, person to person conflict, dblp conflict and chairs conflict
Program Committee Invite
Bulk invite senior meta-reviewers, meta-reviewers, and reviewers and track invite status
Bidding
Allow meta-reviewers and reviewers to bid on papers and allow senior meta-reviewers to bid on meta-reviewers
Reviewer Suggestion
Meta-reviewers suggest reviewers for papers
Assignment
Support both manual and automatic assignment, integrated with TPMS (Toronto Paper Matching System)
Discussion
Threaded discussion and virtual PC meeting
Rebuttal
Authors provide feedback to reviews online or via file upload
Author Notification
Quick steps to notify authors using Author Notification Wizard and custom templates
Copyright
Streamlined IEEE eCopyright submission
Export
Export conference data to Excel/XML/CSV
Download
Download submission files, supplementary material, camera-ready files, presentations
Facilitate communication among users of different roles
Note
Allow chairs, senior meta-reviewers, meta-reviewers and reviewers to create note
Session and Presentation
Facilitate session creation for accepted papers
Audit
Log submission activities and file upload/download
eBooks
No matter the size of the conference and how much chair experience you have, the guides help you navigate the process of managing conference with ease, from requesting CMT site to sending author notification.
Notable Conferences
KDD2021
EDBT2021
IJCAI2021
UAI2021
COLT2021
ALT2020
CIDR2020
ICMLA2020
DCC2021
IPMI2021
CORL2020
RSS2020
Usage
The architect of the Conference Management Toolkit is Surajit Chaudhuri, Technical Fellow at Microsoft Research, Redmond. The service was first developed for ACM SIGKDD 1999. Since then, it has undergone several major improvements and extensions and has been used in well over ten thousands of conferences to date. CMT3 is the latest and the most popular version. It is built on Microsoft Azure platform and fully utilizes the best cloud technologies to provide scalability, availability and reliability not matched by any other conference management services. HTML5, Bootstrap and JQuery are used in creating responsive, mobile-first and modern CMT3 web interface.
CMT3 has hosted over 12,000 conferences. It has over one million users from 240 countries and regions. The following numbers show the usage of a typical large CMT conference.
12,000
Papers Submitted
8,500
People on Program Committee
60,000,000
TPMS Scores Requested
3,000,000
Reviewer Suggestions
6,000,000
Reviewer Conflicts
1,800,000
Reviewer Bids
1,000,000
Emails Sent
80,000
Files Uploaded
30,000
Discussion Posts
Support
CMT provides email based support Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm Pacific Time. Since CMT is operated by a small team, support is limited. For conference-specific questions, such as the status of a paper, please contact the chairs directly. For other questions, please check FAQ and Docs before contacting support@msr-cmt.org. We will do our best to respond in a timely manner (usually within 24 hours). For conference chairs, we prefer if you can arrange abstract submission, paper submission and reviewer submission deadlines to fall on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday in order to ensure quick response from the CMT team.