PUBLICATION AND PAPER SUBMISSION SERVICES

Technical and academic conferences need comprehensive solutions to help manage the paper submission and selection processes. MPA offers a proven, web-based solution that allows for the secure submission, assignment and review, and selection of papers, co-joined with automated, web- based reporting and publishing capabilities that help you get the word out about your program faster and more accurately. This level of integration and automation is unique among web-based paper submission management tools.

MPA's paper submission and selection web-tools features:

• Secure access to the paper submission web site for authors, reviewers, selection committee, organizers and other designated participants.
• Automated assignment of papers to subcommittees or groups for review.
• Real-time reporting tools, with varying levels of secure access based on a participants role, that profile and summarize paper submission statistics, paper ratings and accept-reject counts across different areas or demographics.
• Automated acceptance and rejection notification with confirmations and review summaries for feedback to the authors.
• Automated web- and print- based publishing.
• Seamless integrates with MPA's registration system to automatically register speakers and organizers.
• Generates timely and accurate exports for other vendors such as your proceedings publisher, housing bureau, or mail house.

We host this software on our own servers. The only thing that your submitters, reviewers, and organizers will need to access these capabilities is a web-browser like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer. Our web-based tools work equally well on PC, MAC, or UNIX-based operating systems.

In addition to these state-of the art offerings, MPA also provides detail-oriented customer service. Our veteran staff has over 15 years of experience in working with technical-conference clients to manage paper selection processes. We know the importance of keeping all the people involved in this multi-tiered process informed and on-track. Our software locks down the bits and bytes; our staff locks down the smiles.

Our Presenter Services include:

• Call for Papers production and distribution.
• Keep your prospective authors, selection committee and organizers, speakers and panelists informed of deadlines, guidelines, publication and audiovisual requirements, and changes.
• Arrange for speaker registration, assist with travel, transportation, and accommodations
• Help speakers with special requests, and ensure that they have all they need to make their presentation successful
• Arrange any necessary meetings with presenters at the event such as a "Speakers' Breakfast".
• Arrange for the set-up of audio/visual practice rooms at the event.

On-line, Printed & CD-ROM Programs and Proceedings

• Design and oversee the production of printed programs
• Oversee the production of printed and CD-ROM proceedings
• On-line searchable proceedings ­ (link to 39th DAC Proceedings)
• On-line searchable conference programs (link to past present speakers and presentations)