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<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"><head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta name="google" content="notranslate"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/stylesheets/style.css?mtime=1730464731"><script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-3.7.1.min.js" crossorigin="anonymous" integrity="sha256-/JqT3SQfawRcv/BIHPThkBvs0OEvtFFmqPF/lYI/Cxo="></script><script src="/scripts/script.js?mtime=1731167460"></script><script src="/scripts/comscript.js?mtime=1731166949"></script><script>siteinfo={"site_relative":"\/","base":"\/","suffix":"","cookie_params":"","postvalue":".empty","user":[]};com_isadmin=false</script><title>HotCRP.com</title></head><body> <div class="header"> <div id="header_site" class="header_site_huge"><h1>HotCRP.com</h1></div></div><div class="body"><p class="text mt-3"><span style="font-size:larger"><a class="uu" href="http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/hotcrp/">HotCRP</a> is software for managing the conference review process.</span> It combines ease of use with power and flexibility. Thousands of sites have deployed HotCRP, but HotCRP.com offers features not available anywhere else.</p> <p><a class="btn btn-success" style="margin-right: 1em; font-weight: 500" href="https://test.hotcrp.com/createtestsite">Create a free test site</a><a class="btn" style="margin-right: 1em" href="#create">Request a site</a><a class="btn" style="margin-right: 1em" href="privacy">Privacy policy</a></p> <h2 class="header_page">Features</h2><div class="hotcrpcom_headercontainer clearfix"><div class="hotcrpcom_headercard"><h4>Submission</h4><ul><li>Easy-to-use, customizable submission form</li> <li>Optional registration phase</li> <li>PC conflict collection</li> <li>Configurable PDF format checking</li> </ul></div> <div class="hotcrpcom_headercard"><h4>Assignment</h4><ul><li>Collect per-paper PC preferences</li> <li>Assign papers by hand, in bulk, or automatically</li> <li>Globally-optimal automatic review assignments</li> <li>Flexible conflict management</li> </ul></div> <div class="hotcrpcom_headercard"><h4>Search</h4><ul><li>Extraordinarily powerful <a href="https://test.hotcrp.com/help/keywords">search</a> and <a href="https://test.hotcrp.com/help/tags">tag</a> facility</li> <li><a href="https://test.hotcrp.com/help/search">Search and sort</a> papers by any criteria</li> <li>Download papers and paper metadata in bulk</li> <li>Display scores and <a href="https://test.hotcrp.com/help/formulas">arbitrary formulas</a></li> <li>Highlight papers with <a href="https://test.hotcrp.com/help/tags#colors">colors, styles, and emoji 💯</a></li> <li>Arbitrary graphs of paper and review information</li> </ul></div> <div class="hotcrpcom_headercard"><h4>Tracks</h4><ul><li><a href="https://test.hotcrp.com/help/tracks">Fine-grained permission management</a></li> <li>Per-track and per-paper administrators</li> <li>Examples: Heavy and light PC, PC-paper review committees, external review committees, and more</li> </ul></div> <div class="hotcrpcom_headercard"><h4>Review</h4><ul><li>Customizable review forms</li> <li>Advanced formatting, including LaTeX math</li> <li>Multiple rounds of reviewing</li> <li>Offline reviewing</li> <li>Review delegation and external reviewer invitation</li> <li>Collect <a href="https://test.hotcrp.com/help/reviewratings">feedback on review quality</a></li> </ul></div> <div class="hotcrpcom_headercard"><h4>PC meeting</h4><ul><li>Comments and review responses (rebuttals)</li> <li>Order papers by <a href="https://test.hotcrp.com/help/votetags">votes</a> or <a href="https://test.hotcrp.com/help/ranking">ranks</a></li> <li>Live meeting tracker keeps PC in sync</li> <li>Custom decision types</li> <li>Mail users</li> </ul></div> <div class="hotcrpcom_headercard wider"><h4>ACM integration</h4><div style="float:left;margin-top:0.5em"><a href="https://www.acm.org/"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="80px" height="80px" viewBox="5 0 85 80" style="margin-right:10px"><linearGradient 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HotCRP helps with copyright assignment, final-version submission, PDF checking, and proceedings construction. Conference administrators can easily run the publication process themselves, reducing cost and error and shortening production times. And thanks to a site-wide service agreement, ACM-sponsored conferences and workshops use HotCRP.com <strong>at no direct cost</strong>.</p><ul><li>Collect eRights forms (copyright assignment)</li> <li>Collect final versions</li> <li>Check PDFs for ACM compliance</li> <li>Embed missing fonts</li> <li>Collect ACM keywords, references, and classifications</li> <li>Order papers into sessions</li> <li>Cover wizard: create beautiful ACM-formatted covers</li> <li>Contents wizard: create contents automatically</li> <li>Export a single bundle with all files required for the ACM Digital Library</li> </ul></div> <div class="hotcrpcom_headercard"><h4>USENIX integration</h4><p class="text"><a href="http://www.usenix.org/">USENIX</a> uses HotCRP to manage all its conferences and workshops.</p><ul></ul></div> </div> <h2 class="header_page" id="create">Request a site</h2><form method="post" action="/?post=.empty" enctype="multipart/form-data" accept-charset="UTF-8"><div class="f-contain" style="margin-bottom:1em"><p class="text"><strong>ACM-sponsored</strong> conferences, journals, and workshops may use HotCRP.com <strong class="hotcrpcom_strong">at no direct cost</strong>. Select site class “acm”, or select site class “sigplan” to enforce SIGPLAN’s standard submission and reviewing terms.</p> <p class="text"><strong>USENIX-sponsored</strong> conferences, journals, and workshops use HotCRP.com <strong class="hotcrpcom_strong">at no direct cost</strong>. Your site will be created for you by USENIX.</p> <p class="text">Academics may use HotCRP.com for free for classroom use. There is no support. Select site class “classroom”.</p> <p class="text"><strong>Other</strong> conferences, journals, and workshops should select site class “oneoff”. Each site is charged <strong>$7.50 per submission</strong> for <strong>bugfix-only support</strong>, payable after the submission deadline. Email support requires an additional fee or a separate support contract.</p> <p class="text">If you want to try HotCRP, you can <a href="https://test.hotcrp.com/createtestsite">create a live test site that you control</a>. Test sites have email restrictions and limited lifetime.</p> <p class="text mb-5"><a href="mailto:ekohler@gmail.com">Email Eddie Kohler</a> with questions.</p> <script>customers = {"acm":{"custid":4,"custuid":"acm"},"classroom":{"custid":6,"custuid":"classroom"},"ieeeoneoff":{"custid":10,"custuid":"ieeeoneoff","cust_adhoc":true},"oneoff":{"custid":5,"custuid":"oneoff","cust_adhoc":true},"sigplan":{"custid":1,"custuid":"sigplan"}}</script><div class="f-i"><div class="f-c"><label for="siteclass">Site class</label></div><div class="f-e"><span class="select"><select name="siteclass" id="siteclass" class="uich js-createconf-siteclass" data-default-value=""><option value selected></option><option value="acm">acm</option><option value="classroom">classroom</option><option value="ieeeoneoff">ieeeoneoff</option><option value="oneoff">oneoff</option><option value="sigplan">sigplan</option></select></span></div></div><div id="confid_holder" class="f-i has-fold fold3c"><div class="f-c"><label for="confid">Site URL</label></div><div class="f-e fn3"><input type="text" name="confid" value="" id="confid" class="uii js-createconf-confid mr-1"><span class="siteurl-suffix">.hotcrp.com</span></div><div class="f-e fx3"><input type="text" name="confid_school" value="" id="confid_school" class="mr-1" size="15">-<input type="text" name="confid_class" value="" id="confid_class" class="ml-1 mr-1" size="20"><span class="siteurl-suffix">.hotcrp.com</span></div><div class="f-h">Examples: “hotos23”, “nsdi23posters”—only letters, numbers, and dashes; must include a two- or four-digit year</div></div><div class="f-i"><div class="f-c"><label for="shortName">Conference abbreviation</label></div><div class="f-e"><input type="text" name="shortName" value="" id="shortName" size="40"></div><div class="f-h">Examples: “HotOS XVIII”, “NSDI ’23 Posters”; please include a full year (“2023”), year abbreviation (“'22”), or conference number (“1”, “III”)</div></div><div class="f-i"><div class="f-c"><label for="longName">Conference name</label></div><div class="f-e"><input type="text" name="longName" value="" id="longName" size="80"></div><div class="f-h">Example: “18th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems”</div></div><div class="f-i"><div class="f-c"><label for="contactemail">Email of site contact</label></div><div class="f-e"><input type="text" name="contactemail" value="" id="contactemail" size="60" autocomplete="email" placeholder="your@email.com"></div><div class="f-h hidden" id="siteclass_contactchair">This email will be made the initial conference chair.</div><p id="conf_confirm" class="mt-5 mb-5 text hidden"></p></div><div class="f-i"><div class="f-c"><label for="create_note">Note</label></div><div class="f-e"><textarea name="note" id="create_note" size="60" placeholder="Use this optional field to describe your site request. Normally it’s safe to leave this blank" class="papertext"></textarea></div></div><button type="submit" disabled id="create_submit" style="margin-right:2em" name="submit" value="1">Request conference</button><a class="fn ui js-foldup" href="" style="font-size:smaller" data-fold-target="foldadminsignin#0">Administrator login</a><div id="foldadminsignin" class="foldc" style="margin-top:2em"><h2 class="header_page fx">Administrator signin</h2><div class="f-i fx"><div class="f-c"><label for="password">hotcrp.com administration password</label></div><div class="f-e"><input type="password" name="hotcrpcom_password" value="" id="password" autocomplete="current-password" class="want-focus"></div><div class="f-h">If you don’t know the password, leave it blank and your conference creation request will be sent to the hotcrp.com administrator for approval.</div><p><button type="submit" name="adminsignin" value="1">Sign in</button></p></div></div></div></form> </div><script>$(hotcrpcom_initialize_home)</script></body></html>