The reviewers require quick access to the papers and to their reviews. In a journal setting, papers arrive uniformly throughout the year. Because editorships change, the papers and the associated decisions must be recorded archivally. What we provide We have constructed several software components to assist in conference and journal management. For browsers without Java support, we generate an HTML form that collects the form's information.
Syntactic correctness is checked by the server-side code.
The resulting e-mail can be piped through a filter we supply. Each of the above methods generates the same result on the server-side. The Java method is the safest, because the input is checked prior to submission. E-mail has the most hazards, because the form contains lines that guide the mail's translation on the server side.