The Technical Program Committee

TPC members have four levels of privilege:

(TPC) chair

The chair manages and configures conference; can inspect any paper. The chair can assign reviewers to any paper.

track chair

A track chair can inspect papers, change the paper status and assign reviews to papers within his or her designated tracks. A track chair cannot notify authors or configure the conference.

group leader

A group leader can inspect papers, change the paper status and assign reviews to papers within his or her TPC group. A group leader cannot notify authors or configure the conference.

TPC member

A TPC member can be assigned TPC reviews and may have special privileges to see reviews and to assign regular reviews to papers, depending on the conference configuration. TPC members can be assigned to TPC groups and can register for the TPC meeting. TPC members can be assigned to a specific track and then only see papers for that track.

(designated) reviewer

A designated reviewer has no special privileges, but appears in the reviewer selection list. Designated reviewers do not appear on the TPC listing.

Review questions can be designated as being viewable by role, e.g., only by a chair, group leader or TPC member.

All types of TPC members are only part of the automatic paper assignment if they are flagged as reviewing papers. That is the default for reviewers and TPC members, but not for group leaders and chairs.

TPC members can be grouped into TPC groups, with a group leader. TPC groups are useful for large TPC meetings; they are not, however, used for assignin papers. Papers can be assigned to TPC groups, so that members of the group can see the reviews. TPC group leaders ("groupleader") can list papers.