Today, we have many conferences in different research areas such as computer science, economics, biology and so on. Therefore, paper-reviewer assignment problem is a practical and important problem and has attracted a lot of researchers to explore it. There are four categories of methods which are introduced in this thesis. Although the previous works mentioned in the thesis adopt various kinds of methods, their common goal is to assign good reviewers to the papers in the conference or any other similar situations. A good reviewer is an expert that he/she could offer a professional review to his/her assigned paper. In addition, we also need to take the workload of reviewers into consideration in order to guarantee the quality of the reviews....[ Read more ]

Today, we have many conferences in different research areas such as computer science, economics, biology and so on. Therefore, paper-reviewer assignment problem is a practical and important problem and has attracted a lot of researchers to explore it. There are four categories of methods which are introduced in this thesis. Although the previous works mentioned in the thesis adopt various kinds of methods, their common goal is to assign good reviewers to the papers in the conference or any other similar situations. A good reviewer is an expert that he/she could offer a professional review to his/her assigned paper. In addition, we also need to take the workload of reviewers into consideration in order to guarantee the quality of the reviews.

Many previous papers mention considering conflict of interests into the assignment process as their future work but no paper has proposed a proper and effective way for it. This thesis analyzes the importance of conflict of interests in the assignment problem of the conference papers and defines five types of conflict of interests. We consider these types of the conflict of interests into the assignment algorithm. Experiments were conducted and our case study showed the effectiveness of our method.