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title:  "OpenReview and Early Bird Registration"
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#### OpenReview and Early Bird Registration

Have you registered for VIVO Conference 2019 yet?  The [Early Bird Rate](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vivo-2019-conference-tickets-50867496050) is ending on May 27 at midnight GMT, so don’t wait to register. 

The Local Organizing Committee has selected the [Hilton Hotel](https://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/montenegro/hilton-podgorica-crna-gora-TGDPMHI/index.html) as our conference venue which can accommodate 150 attendees in its conference rooms. 
You can also stay at the Hilton hotel where rates should be around 125 Euros per night. Alternatively, on-line sources such as [booking.com](http://booking.com/) and similar [web-sites](http://www.ustanzadan.me/en/rent-a-stan/) offer affordable luxury residential apartment accommodation located a short distance (3-5 blocks) from the conference center.

We invite all of you to leave feedback on the proposals for VIVO2019.
All proposals are freely available on [OpenReview](https://openreview.net/group?id=vivoconference.org/VIVO/2019/Conference), and your feedback will make the conference even better! You can comment under your own name, or anonymously.


Reviewer Assignment Stage begins now after the initial paper-reviewer matches are computed. Affinity between paper and reviewer is a weighted combination of

* Word overlaps
* Review bids
* PC suggestion
* Conflict of interest (negative infinity scores)

Reviewing Stage is open

* Authors, reviewers, and members of the public may continue to post public comments as earlier.
* Review and meta-review tasks deployed.
* Reviews are visible to everyone (program chairs, other reviewers, authors, other users) immediately upon creation.
* Reviewers can choose to post reviews anonymously.
* For anonymous reviews, reviewer identity is revealed only to the program chairs. Important: while posting anonymous reviews, reviewers *should not* reveal their identities in any part of the discussion.
* Any logged in user can also post reviews and can do it anonymously or using their public ID.
* Reviewer assignment consoles are enabled.
* Program chairs can monitor review progress using their PC console.

Final Decision Stage

* Program chairs have the opportunity to refine meta reviews before release.
* Final decisions are communicated to authors.

[VIVO 2019 Conference Planing Task Force](https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/VIVO/VIVO+Conference+Planning+Task+Force) will open a late call for poster proposals in June.

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