Vol. 2, No. 1 Computer and Information Science 90 Framework for Conference Management System Abu Bakar Md Sultan, Abdul Azim Abdul Ghani & Lim Su Fang Department of Information System Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 UPM Serdang, Malaysia E-mail: abakar@fsktm.upm.edu.my, azim@fsktm.upm.edu.my This research is sponsored by Research University Grant Scheme RUGS: 05-02-07-0346RU from Universiti Putra Malaysia Abstract This paper presents a Web-based Conference Management System framework that is intended to support multiple conferences and facilitate the conference management starting from the conference preparation until the attendance tracking process during conference day. The framework derived from the analysis of several web-based related applications. The framework is presents and the results are discussed. Keywords: Conference Management, Web Application, System Framework 1. Introduction Conference is a meeting for researchers to present, discuss, identify important problems and formulate future research direction on specific themes. It provides a true learning environment. However, organizing a conference entails plenty of time-consuming work. For instance, collecting paper submission from authors, assigning paper submitted to the reviewers, notifying authors about whether the paper submitted is rejected or accepted. These processes will surely consume a lot of precious time and complicated works if a conference is conducted manually. Unfortunately, there are no reports from literatures that are seriously looking in how to produce an efficient system in managing the entire process of conferences. Lately, the need of systems for collaboration support has expanded, leading to their growing application in organizational, communication, and cooperation processes. Hence, various applications have been developed for conference organization to support or manage the workloads. The emergence of information communication technology has changed the way the conferences suppose to organize. Thus this paper analyzes several online conferences and proposes a framework for conference management system. This paper presents a web-based Conference Management System framework that is intended to support multiple conferences and facilitate the conference management starting from the conference preparation until the attendance tracking process during conference day. The rest of paper is organized as follows. In section 2 the analysis of features of current system and the solution are discussed. An overview of a proposed solution is discussed in section 3. Section 4 includes the result and discussion. Section 5 includes the conclusion and future suggestion. 2. Analysis of Existing Conference System A Conference Management System shall include functions such as the online participant registration, paper submission, paper reviewing, and notification process and so on. Through the study of the Conference Management System available in the market, we study four most popular solutions for conference system which is ConfMan, CyberChair, Confious and Chairman. The study revealed some differences between the systems. Details of the analysis are listed in the table below: The result from the Table 1 shows that each product has own advantages and disadvantages. Most of them are still lacking throughout the entire conference management process. As far as we are concerned, there is no research to produce a common framework for any Conference Management System. Each system only developed when the conference is going to organize. The system developed not only includes the main function of a conference but also to propose a common framework that allows the conference organizer to