To divide the workload between members of the technical committee, Confy+ recognizes the following roles and their main responsibilities:

• General Chair/Program Chair – oversees the entire conference across all tracks and stages
  1. Sets the review model and paper length,
  2. create tracks,
  3. appoints Track Chair(s), or they can assign the role to themselves (by doing this, they assume Track Chair responsibilities listed below,
  4. invites TPC members,
  5. oversees the review process,
  6. delivers the final decision on submissions,
  7. sends notifications to authors.

General and Program Chairs are active in all stages of the conference. To view the detailed guide for Chairs, click here.

Note: General and Program Chairs can distribute the work to Track Chairs and TPC members, or they can be more hands-on and assign themselves to these roles, if they want to handle the responsibilities below:

• Track Chair – responsible for the review process of their track(s).
  1. Invites TPC members,
  2. validates submissions,
  3. assigns TPC members to papers,
  4. monitors review delivery,
  5. makes preliminary decisions on submissions.

Track Chair is active in all stages of the track. To view the detailed guide for Chairs, click here.

Note: Track Chairs can distribute the handling of the papers TPC members, or they can be more hands-on and assign themselves to these roles, if they want to assume the responsibilities below:

• TPC member – is invited by Chairs to bid on papers that they will handle (this means they will invite Reviewers, monitor review delivery, and submit a recommendation to the Chairs).
  1. Once assigned, a TPC member invites reviewers (3 reviews are needed per paper),
  2. monitors review delivery,
  3. deliver a review if needed,
  4. submits a recommendation to chairs.

TPC member is active during Paper Assignment and Review Management (possibly also during Decision & Notification, if they have not submitted recommendation prior to stage change).To view the detailed guide for TPC Members, click here.

• Reviewer – is invited to deliver a review.
  1. Delivers their review by the review deadline.

Reviewer is active during Review Management (possibly also during Decision & Notification, if they have not submitted review prior to stage change). To view the detailed guide for Reviewers, click here.

• Publications Chair – is appointed in the SAF document and invited by the Conference Manager, together with the General and Program Chairs.
  1. helps with submission validation,
  2. prepares the proceedings after Camera Ready deadline.

Is active in Submission Validation and in Camera Ready stage.