Confhub.com is a web-based and multi-conference management system, which has been implemented on the basis of MyReview (A well-known open-source software). It provide many functions that enable registered users to submit and review papers as well as manage several conferences simultaneously, namely:

1). Conference Creating
Registered users can apply for setting up a conference by filling out an application form online. And the number of conferences a user can apply for is not limited. In addition, users can make the conferences they applying for sub (child) conferences or parent conferences of conferences that they have established. In the applying course, users must specify necessary information regarding their conferences including conference name, starting and closing time, holding date, URL, chair mail and description, etc.

2). Conference Administration
Registered users can configure conferences created by them. In addition, users can appoint other registered users or non-registered persons as administrators to manage conferences on behalf of them. Users can also specify others as chairs for their conferences to handle regular matters concerning their conferences. Items that can be configured for a conference are as follows:

a). Program Committee: Renew registered conference information and appoint administrators, chairs, reviewers and registration chairs of a conference.

b). Research topics: ask the PC members to select their preferred topics and ask the authors to assign one of the topics to their papers they submit. This can help during the manual assignment of papers.

c). Criteria: set standards for reviewers to evaluate papers

d). Paper questions: define questions for authors to answer when they submit papers

e). Review questions: set questions for reviewers to handle when they evaluate papers.

f). Status codes: define letters or words used to mark papers with different statuses such as "Accepted", "Rejected" or "Moved".

g). PDF Style: set layout properties of PDF documents

h). Logo Setting: set logos for conferences

i). Conference Information: set the name, starting time and closing time, URL, mail, holding

location, conference description and schedule, etc of a conference.

j). Registration: Set the status of payment function of a conference. If it is set to “Opening”, participants of the conference can pay for it.

k). Define the slots of the conference: A slot is a period of a given day that hosts one or several sessions.

l). Define the sessions of the conference: each session is associated to one of the previously defined slots

m). Manually or automatically assign papers to reviewers

n). Review Submission: Reviewers can sign in the system using their emails and password. They can download the papers they have been assigned to, submit their evaluation and modify it at any moment.

o). Paper Selection: the administrator can mark the accepted papers as "accepted" or "rejected". And a mail will then be sent to the contact authors giving the status of each paper, together with the (anonymous) reviews.

p). Discussion on conflicting reviews: this function will be added to the system.

q). Compute preferences and conflicts

r). Assign accepted papers to sessions: assign papers according to reviews.

s). Transfer rejected papers to other conferences

t). Send mails: send mails to authors or reviewers
In addition to all these core configurable options, conference administrators can also have access to other useful functionalities such as compiling statistics of papers according to different standards and listing papers with different statues, etc. As for details about how to manage a conference, please refer to "Instructions for Conference Creators & Administrators" of section Ⅳ.

3). Conference Selection
Registered users can view all established conferences of the system and select conferences in which they want participate.

4). Paper Submission
Users can submit abstracts, along with author’s list, list of the authors, main topics of papers, etc to conferences they have selected. After that, they will receive an id and a password that must be used later on to submit corresponding full papers of which formats can be defined by the conference creators and administrators as mentioned above.

All these are the basic and key functionalities confhub.com provides. System users, especially administrators can have access to many other functions. Based on all these functionalities, features of CONFHUB are as follows:
•Integrated Conference Management Capability
•Low-Cost Service Offering Model
•Configurable Paper Submission and Review System
•Paypal-like User ID Using Email Address
•Conferences Registration Dashboard That Supports Online PayPal Payment For Conference Participants and Manual Book Keeping Capability for Conference Organizers
•Paper Transfer and Tracking Capability between Conferences for Conference Organizers
•Access Control-Based Paper Management Dashboard for Conference Participants
•Customizable Registration system
•Customizable Mail Template