HotCRP.com

HotCRP is software for managing the conference review process. It combines ease of use with power and flexibility. Thousands of sites have deployed HotCRP, but HotCRP.com offers features not available anywhere else.

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Features

Submission

Easy-to-use, customizable submission form
Optional registration phase
PC conflict collection
Configurable PDF format checking

Assignment

Collect per-paper PC preferences
Assign papers by hand, in bulk, or automatically
Globally-optimal automatic review assignments
Flexible conflict management

Search

Extraordinarily powerful search and tag facility
Search and sort papers by any criteria
Download papers and paper metadata in bulk
Display scores and arbitrary formulas
Highlight papers with colors, styles, and emoji 💯
Arbitrary graphs of paper and review information

Tracks

Fine-grained permission management
Per-track and per-paper administrators
Examples: Heavy and light PC, PC-paper review committees, external review committees, and more

Review

Customizable review forms
Advanced formatting, including LaTeX math
Multiple rounds of reviewing
Offline reviewing
Review delegation and external reviewer invitation
Collect feedback on review quality

PC meeting

Comments and review responses (rebuttals)
Order papers by votes or ranks
Live meeting tracker keeps PC in sync
Custom decision types
Mail users

ACM integration

HotCRP.com integrates with ACM’s publication services. 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 at no direct cost.

Collect eRights forms (copyright assignment)
Collect final versions
Check PDFs for ACM compliance
Embed missing fonts
Collect ACM keywords, references, and classifications
Order papers into sessions
Cover wizard: create beautiful ACM-formatted covers
Contents wizard: create contents automatically
Export a single bundle with all files required for the ACM Digital Library

USENIX integration

USENIX uses HotCRP to manage all its conferences and workshops.

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ACM-sponsored conferences, journals, and workshops may use HotCRP.com at no direct cost. Select site class “acm”, or select site class “sigplan” to enforce SIGPLAN’s standard submission and reviewing terms.

USENIX-sponsored conferences, journals, and workshops use HotCRP.com at no direct cost. Your site will be created for you by USENIX.

Academics may use HotCRP.com for free for classroom use. There is no support. Select site class “classroom”.

Other conferences, journals, and workshops should select site class “oneoff”. Each site is charged $7.50 per submission for bugfix-only support, payable after the submission deadline by check or PayPal. Email support requires an additional fee or a separate support contract.

Email Eddie Kohler with questions.

Site class

Conference ID

Examples: “hotos18”, “nsdi17posters”—only letters, numbers, and dashes; must include a two-digit year

Conference abbreviation

Examples: “HotOS XIV”, “NSDI '17 Posters”; please include a full year (“2017”), year abbreviation (“'17”), or conference number (“1”, “III”)

Conference name

Example: “14th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems”

Email of site contact

hotcrp.com administration password

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.