Design and implementation of a collaborative conference management system

In the last few years, several Web-based conference management systems have been developed and used by many international conferences. However, almost all of them were built on stand-alone Web servers. Their fault-tolerance, scalability and ability of responding to dispersed users are limited. Aimed at addressing these problems, this paper presents a collaborative conference management system, whose fault-tolerance, scalability and ability of responding to dispersed users are greatly enhanced by collaboration technologies. A prototype system has been implemented and used to facilitate the management of submissions and paper reviews of the CSCWD2008 conference.Depuis quelques ann\ue9es, plusieurs syst\ue8mes de gestion des conf\ue9rences en ligne ont \ue9t\ue9 mis au point, et de nombreuses conf\ue9rences internationales les ont utilis\ue9s. Toutefois, presque tous ces syst\ue8mes ont \ue9t\ue9 b\ue2tis sur des serveurs Web autonomes, et leur r\ue9silience ou tol\ue9rance aux failles, extensibilit\ue9 et capacit\ue9 de r\ue9pondre \ue0 des utilisateurs dispers\ue9s demeurent limit\ue9es. Ce document, qui s'int\ue9resse pr\ue9cis\ue9ment \ue0 ces probl\ue8mes, pr\ue9sente un syst\ue8me de gestion de conf\ue9rences du type collaboratif, dont les caract\ue9ristiques de tol\ue9rance aux failles, d'extensibilit\ue9 et de r\ue9ponse \ue0 des utilisateurs dispers\ue9s se trouvent grandement rehauss\ue9es par les technologies collaboratives. Un syst\ue8me prototype a \ue9t\ue9 mis en ?uvre et utilis\ue9 dans le but de faciliter la gestion des soumissions et de l'examen des communications pour la conf\ue9rence CSCWD2008.Peer reviewed: YesNRC publication: Ye