ConferenceOne: A cloud-based collaborative conference service system

Attending and organizing conferences are important activities in the academic career of researchers. The primary purpose of attending conferences is to interact, communicate and collaborate with other research counterparts. In order to solve the problem of limited time and location for face-to-face interaction, communication and collaboration in conferences; we propose the design of a cloud-based collaborative conference system. The system consists of a set of independent conference domains, an academic social network service and an academic knowledge repository. The most distinctive parts of the system include social network services in conference domains, academic social network service, and academic knowledge repository. The system not only has the ability to support group-based online interaction, communication and collaboration through a set of virtual groups in conference spaces; but also is capable of aggregates users and their created digital resources to build conference domain social network services and academic social network service of the system. Furthermore, based on the digital resources in academic knowledge repository, the academic social network service can provide a lot of interesting and useful application including information services, evaluation services and intelligent services. As conference attendees will have much more opportunities to interact, communicate and collaborate with others under the support of the system anytime at any place; participation in conferences will be more beneficial than before.