An OWA ased multi-criteria system for assigning papers to reviewers

Jennifer Nguyen, Germán Sanchez-Hernandez, N. Agell, X. Rovira Llobera, Cecilio Angulo

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Abstract

Assigning papers to reviewers is a large, long and difficult task for conference chairs and scientific committees. The reviewer assignment problem is a multi-agent problem which requires understanding reviewer expertise and paper topics for the matching process. This paper proposes to elaborate on variables used to compute reviewer expertise and aggregate multiple factors to find the fittest combination of reviewers to each paper. Expertise information is gathered implicitly from publicly available information and a reviewer profile is generated automatically. An OWA (Ordered Weighted Average) aggregation function is used to summarize information coming from different sources and rank the candidate reviewers for each paper. General constraints for the RAP (Reviewer Assignment Problem) have been incorporated into a real case example: (i) conflicts of interest between the reviewer and authors should be avoided, (ii) each paper must have a minimum number of reviewers, and (iii) each reviewer load cannot exceed a certain number of papers.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArtificial Intelligence Research and Development - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, CCIA 2016
EditorsXavier Binefa, Angela Nebot, Ramon Lopez de Mantaras
PublisherIOS Press
Pages253-262
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781614996958
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016
Event19th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, CCIA 2016 - Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Duration: 19 Oct 201621 Oct 2016

Publication series

NameFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume288
ISSN (Print)0922-6389

Conference

Conference19th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, CCIA 2016
Country/TerritorySpain
CityBarcelona, Catalonia
Period19/10/1621/10/16

Keywords

  • Conference reviewer assignment
  • Expertise
  • OWA
  • Recommender system

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