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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Microsoft Conference Management Toolkit</title> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, max-scale=1.0"> <meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us"> <meta name="description" content="Microsoft's Conference Management Toolkit is a free and hosted academic conference management system with modern interface, extensive features and outstanding support." /> <meta name="keywords" content="Microsoft CMT, conference submission system, conference submission software, conference submission tools, conference management system, conference management software, conference management tools, abstract management system, abstract management software, abstract management tools, abstract submission system, abstract submission software, abstract submission tools, abstract review system, abstract review software, abstract review tools, paper submission system, paper submission software, paper submission tools, peer review system, peer review software, conference reviewing system, conference reviewing tools" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://stackpath.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.3/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-MCw98/SFnGE8fJT3GXwEOngsV7Zt27NXFoaoApmYm81iuXoPkFOJwJ8ERdknLPMO" crossorigin="anonymous"> <style type="text/css"> body { background-color: white; color: #333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; } h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-weight: 700; } .master-nav { border-bottom: 1px solid #62c4ea; height: 90px; } .master-nav, .master-nav img { -webkit-transition: all 0.4s ease; -moz-transition: all 0.4s ease; transition: all 0.4s ease; } .master-nav.narrow { height: 60px; } .master-nav.narrow img { transform: scale(0.75); } .content-container { padding-top: 90px; } .section { padding: 40px; } .section:nth-of-type(even) { background-color: #fafafa; color: #333; } .bg-cmtmain { background-color: #007EA3; color: white; } .text-cmtmain { color: #007EA3; } .largefont { font-size:x-large; } .smallfont { font-size: small; } #conferences-container .conference { text-align: center; } #conferences-container .conference:hover { transform: scale(1.125); transition: all 0.4s ease; } #conferences-container .conference img { width: 100%; max-width: 10em; } .help-section { margin: 0 20px; padding: 20px 10px 10px; } .help-section:nth-of-type(even) { background-color: #eee; } ul.circle > li { list-style-type: circle; } ul.square > li { list-style-type: square; } </style> </head> <body> <nav id="navbar" class="navbar navbar-expand master-nav bg-cmtmain fixed-top container-fluid"> <a class="navbar-brand mr-0" href="/About" aria-label="Microsoft's Conference Management Toolkit"> <img src="/img/logo.png" alt="Microsoft's Conference Management Toolkit"> </a> <div class="flex-row ml-auto mr-3"> <ul class="navbar-nav"> <li class="nav-item dropdown"> <a class="nav-link dropdown-toggle text-white" href="#" id="navbarDocsDropdownMenu" role="button" data-toggle="dropdown" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">Docs</a> <div class="dropdown-menu dropdown-menu-right" aria-labelledby="navbarDocsDropdownMenu"> <a class="dropdown-item" href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/docs/help/index.html">Docs</a> <a class="dropdown-item" href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/docs/help/faq/faq-general.html">FAQ</a> <a class="dropdown-item" href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/docs/help/overview/roles.html">User Roles</a> <a class="dropdown-item" href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/docs/help/pdfs/small_conference_guide.pdf">Guide for Small Conference</a> <a class="dropdown-item" href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/docs/help/pdfs/large_conference_guide.pdf">Guide for Large Conference</a> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </nav> <div class="container-fluid content-container"> <div class="row section welcome justify-content-center text-center"> <div class="col-12 col-sm-10 col-md-8"> <h1 class="text-cmtmain largefont">Microsoft CMT – Hosted and Scalable Academic Conference Management System</h1> <p class="lead">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.</p> <a class="btn btn-lg p-3 btn-success" href="/CMTSRM/">Request Site</a> <a class="btn btn-lg p-3 btn-success" href="/User/Login">Login</a> </div> </div> <div class="row section"> <div class="col-12"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain mb-4">Features</h3> <div class="row align-content-center"> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/management.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Multiple Roles</h5> <p>Chair, senior meta-reviewer, meta-reviewer, reviewer, author, proceedings editor</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/train-track.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Multi-Track Support</h5> <p>No limit on number of tracks in a conference with each track independently configured</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/form.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Customizable Form</h5> <p>All forms are customizable with ability to configure question visibility independently</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/process-filled.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Full Submission Life Cycle</h5> <p>Abstract, full paper, supplementary material, revision, camera-ready, presentation</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/overview.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Instruction Message</h5> <p>Welcome message for authors, reviewers and meta-reviewers in rich format</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/pdf.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">File and Media</h5> <p> Unlimited file upload. Max file size 100MB. Support pdf, docx, audio, video and other file types. </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/conflict.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Conflicts Management</h5> <p>Domain conflict, submission conflict, person to person conflict, dblp conflict and chairs conflict</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/invite.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Program Committee Invite</h5> <p>Bulk invite senior meta-reviewers, meta-reviewers, and reviewers and track invite status</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/thumbs-up.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Bidding</h5> <p>Allow meta-reviewers and reviewers to bid on papers and allow senior meta-reviewers to bid on meta-reviewers</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/add-user-group-man-man.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Reviewer Suggestion</h5> <p>Meta-reviewers suggest reviewers for papers</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/batch-assign.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Assignment</h5> <p> Support both manual and automatic assignment, integrated with TPMS (<a href="http://torontopapermatching.org/webapp/profileBrowser/about_us/" target="_blank">Toronto Paper Matching System</a>) </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/communication.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Discussion</h5> <p> Threaded discussion and virtual PC meeting </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/send-comment.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Rebuttal</h5> <p> Authors provide feedback to reviews online or via file upload </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/group-message.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Author Notification</h5> <p> Quick steps to notify authors using Author Notification Wizard and custom templates </p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/copyright.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Copyright</h5> <p>Streamlined IEEE eCopyright submission</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/export.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Export</h5> <p>Export conference data to Excel/XML/CSV</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/installing-updates.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Download</h5> <p>Download submission files, supplementary material, camera-ready files, presentations</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/secured-letter.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Email</h5> <p>Facilitate communication among users of different roles</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/note.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Note</h5> <p>Allow chairs, senior meta-reviewers, meta-reviewers and reviewers to create note</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/training.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Session and Presentation</h5> <p>Facilitate session creation for accepted papers</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-4 my-1"> <div class="row"> <div class="col-3 col-sm-2"> <img src="/img/feature-icons/audit.svg" /> </div> <div class="col-9 col-sm-10"> <h5 class="text-cmtmain">Audit</h5> <p>Log submission activities and file upload/download</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="conferences-container" class="row section"> <div class="col-12"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain mb-4">eBooks</h3> <p>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.</p> <div class="row align-items-center justify-content-start"> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <a href="/docs/help/pdfs/small_conference_guide.pdf" target="_blank" title="An Informal Guide to Running a Small Conference"><img src="/img/doc-icons/small-conference-guide.png" /></a> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <a href="/docs/help/pdfs/large_conference_guide.pdf" target="_blank" title="An Informal Guide to Running a Large Conference"><img src="/img/doc-icons/large-conference-guide.png" /></a> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="conferences-container" class="row section"> <div class="col-12"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain mb-4">Notable Conferences</h3> <div class="row align-items-center justify-content-start"> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference align-middle"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining">KDD<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2021</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference align-middle"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="24th International Conference on Extending Database Technology">EDBT<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2021</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/CVPR2020.jpg" alt="Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition" title="Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference align-middle"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence">IJCAI<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2021</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference align-middle"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence">UAI<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2021</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/wacv2020.png" alt="Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision" title="Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference align-middle"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="Computational Learning Theory">COLT<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2021</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference align-middle"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="Algorithmic Learning Theory">ALT<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2020</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/aaai.jpg" alt="Conference on Artificial Intelligence" title="Conference on Artificial Intelligence" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/accv2020.png" alt="Asian Conference on Computer Vision" title="Asian Conference on Computer Vision" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/sigmod.png" alt="International Conference on Management of Data" title="International Conference on Management of Data" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/icde2020.png" alt="International Conference on Data Engineering" title="International Conference on Data Engineering" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/ICME2020.gif" alt="International Conference on Multimedia and Expo" title="International Conference on Multimedia and Expo" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference align-middle"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research ">CIDR<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2020</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/ecmlpkdd.png" alt="European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases" title="European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference align-middle"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications ">ICMLA<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2020</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="Data Compression Conference">DCC<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2021</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/miccai.jpg" alt="Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention" title="Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="Information Processing in Medical Imaging">IPMI<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2021</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/vldb.png" alt="Very Large Data Bases" title="Very Large Data Bases" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference align-middle"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="Conference on Robot Learning ">CORL<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2020</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference align-middle"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain" title="Robotics: Science and Systems ">RSS<span class="d-none d-sm-inline">2020</span></h3> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/ICCV2021.png" alt="International Conference on Computer Vision" title="International Conference on Computer Vision" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/aistats2019.png" alt="Artificial Intelligence and Statistics" title="Artificial Intelligence and Statistics" /> </div> <div class="col-6 col-md-4 col-xl-2 my-1 conference"> <img src="/img/conference-logos/BMVC2020.png" alt="British Machine Vision Conference" title="British Machine Vision Conference" /> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row section"> <div class="col-12"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain mb-4">Usage</h3> <p> The architect of the Conference Management Toolkit is <a href="//research.microsoft.com/~surajitc">Surajit Chaudhuri</a>, 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. </p> <p> 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 <span class="text-cmtmain">a typical large CMT conference</span>. </p> <div class="row pt-3 justify-content-start"> <div class="col text-center"> <h6 class="text-cmtmain mb-1">12,000</h6> <p>Papers Submitted</p> </div> <div class="col text-center"> <h6 class="text-cmtmain mb-1">8,500</h6> <p>People on Program Committee</p> </div> <div class="col text-center"> <h6 class="text-cmtmain mb-1">60,000,000</h6> <p><a href="http://torontopapermatching.org/webapp/profileBrowser/about_us/" target="_blank">TPMS</a> Scores Requested</p> </div> <div class="col text-center"> <h6 class="text-cmtmain mb-1">3,000,000</h6> <p>Reviewer Suggestions</p> </div> <div class="col text-center"> <h6 class="text-cmtmain mb-1">6,000,000</h6> <p>Reviewer Conflicts</p> </div> <div class="col text-center"> <h6 class="text-cmtmain mb-1">1,800,000</h6> <p>Reviewer Bids</p> </div> <div class="col text-center"> <h6 class="text-cmtmain mb-1">1,000,000</h6> <p>Emails Sent</p> </div> <div class="col text-center"> <h6 class="text-cmtmain mb-1">80,000</h6> <p>Files Uploaded</p> </div> <div class="col text-center"> <h6 class="text-cmtmain mb-1">30,000</h6> <p>Discussion Posts</p> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row section"> <div class="col"> <h3 class="text-cmtmain mb-4">Support</h3> <p> 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 <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/docs/help/faq/mfaq-all.html#how-do-i-email-chairs">contact the chairs directly</a>. For other questions, please check <a href="/docs/help/faq/faq-general.html">FAQ</a> and <a href="/docs/help/index.html">Docs</a> before contacting <a href="mailto:support@msr-cmt.org">support@msr-cmt.org</a>. We will do our best to respond in a timely manner (usually within 24 hours). 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