نظم إدارة المؤتمرات العلمية و دورها في تحكيم و نشر بحوث المؤتمرات : دراسة للمواصفات الوظيفية

Abstract EN

In the mid90s, several web-based conference management systems have been released and used by many conferences all over the world.

This study surveys thirty five worldwide conference management systems available through the web.

The empirical approach used to address the research problem was field study with a checklist, which divided into five sections: conference management, submission, reviewing, publishing and registration.

Each system possesses some common functionality and some functionality which present that particular system.

The rest of paper is organized as follows: in section two the analysis of features.

An overview of systems functionalities is discussed in section three.

Section four includes criticism of conference management system, results and suggestions.

The findings revealed that none of the systems support Arabic language or released under Arab authentications.

Free systems were mostly used by Arab conferences specially “Confman” system.74 percent of systems available with fees, and 51 percent provide conference proceedings publishing function.

The research paper address the current lack of Arabic empirical literature on conference management systems and their role in reviewing and publishing conferences papers , and offers practical details and many of significant results.