PC Members

PC members (or program committee members) are a special kind of reviewers. Another kind is subreviewers.

A “program committee” is a common term in many communities, especially computer science and engineering. Other communities use different terms, including:

• reviewing committee
• technical program committee
• editors
• editorial board
• reviewers

EasyChair has several kinds of PC members and corresponding roles, including

• chairs (in single-track conferences) and superchairs (in multi-track conferences)
• associate chairs (aka area chairs) in some reviewing models
• senior PC members in some reviewing models
• ordinary PC members

The functionality of PC members is determined by the conference and track configurations. Generally, they are in charge of

• finding subreviewers
• reviewing submissions
• working with subreviewers
• discussing submissions

In addition, chairs are in charge of

• deciding on the reviewing model
• conference configuration
• setting-up the program committee
• overviewing the reviewing process
• making decisions about submissions (including acceptance and rejection)
• communication with authors

In a multi-track version the same person can have more than one PC member roles. He or she can be a PC member at any number of tracks and also a superchair.

These functionalities and corresponding configuration options are discussed in subsequent sections.