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When a reviewer is assigned as 'tiebreaker' for a paper and the paper does not require a tiebreak, the paper will show greyed out in the review tab. If a tiebreak is required, the link will become active and the text 'new' will be appended to the paper.
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Upon successful paper submission , the conference admin gets notified by email. You can disable this notification by changing the value of application.ini/core.observer.submit to 0.
reviewers
An admin can assign Assign reviewers to papers by clicking on 'reviewers' next to the respective paper. Select a user from the select box to link them to the paper or remove a linked user by clicking the 'x' next to their name. To toggle tiebreaker status, use the 'tiebreaker' button next to the 'x'.
tiebreakers
email reviewers
To streamline the review process and to prevent overloading reviewers since 0.9.1 the tiebreaker concept was added. When a user is a tiebreaker for a paper they will only be asked to review this when the other reviewers cannot agree. This means that the list of papers a reviewer should review is shorter (but can become longer over time when there are more tiebreaks required).
Whether or not a tiebreak is required is decided with the following algorithm:
email reviewers
Send Allows an admin to send an email to all people assigned to review a paper. The email includes links to all the papers that they need to review plus a link to download their assigned papers as a zip archive.
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