Comparative Analysis of Existing Methods and Algorithms for Automatic Assignment of Reviewers to Papers

RevASIDE: Assignment of Suitable Reviewer Sets for Publications from Fixed Candidate Pools

Scientific publishing heavily relies on the assessment of quality of submitted manuscripts by peer reviewers. Assigning a set of matching reviewers to a submission is a highly complex task which can be performed only by domain experts. We introduce RevASIDE, a reviewer recommendation system that assigns suitable sets of complementing reviewers from a predefined candidate pool without requiring manually defined reviewer profiles. Here, suitability includes not only reviewers' expertise, but also their authority in the target domain, their diversity in their areas of expertise and experience, an…

Diverse Reviewer Suggestion for Extending Conference Program Committees

Automated reviewer recommendation for scientific conferences currently relies on the assumption that the program committee has the necessary expertise to handle all submissions. However, topical discrepancies between received submissions and reviewer candidates might lead to unreliable reviews or overburdening of reviewers, and may result in the rejection of high-quality papers. In this work, we present DiveRS, an explainable flow-based reviewer assignment approach, which automatically generates reviewer assignments as well as suggestions for extending the current program committee with new re…

Architecture of a Conference Management System Providing Advanced Paper Assignment Features

This paper proposes an architecture and assignment management model of a conference management system that performs a precise and accurate automatic assignment of reviewers to papers. The system relies on taxonomy of keywords to describe papers and reviewers' competences. The implied hierarchical structure of the taxonomy provides important additional information - the semantic relationships between the separate keywords. It allows similarity measures to take into account not only the number of exactly matching keywords between a paper and a reviewer, but in case of non-matching ones to calcul…

审稿人分配问题：文献的系统综述

Reviewer Assignment Problem: A Systematic Review of the Literature

本文系统综述了过去三十年103篇关于审稿人分配问题（RAP）的文献，按底层技术将方法分为两大类及子类，并指出未来需开发新方法与框架。

Solving reviewer assignment problem in software peer review: An approach based on preference matrix and asymmetric TSP model

Optimized reviewer assignment can effectively utilize limited intellectual resources and significantly assure review quality in various scenarios such as paper selection in conference or journal, proposal selection in funding agencies and so on. However, little research on reviewer assignment of software peer review has been found. In this study, an optimization approach is proposed based on students' preference matrix and the model of asymmetric traveling salesman problem (ATSP). Due to the most critical role of rule matrix in this approach, we conduct a questionnaire to obtain students' pref…

ML/AI 会议审稿人分配中文本匹配对合谋行为的脆弱性

Vulnerability of Text-Matching in ML/AI Conference Reviewer Assignments to Collusions

本文揭示了顶级 ML/AI 会议审稿人分配中的文本匹配组件可被合谋者利用，即使无竞标操纵也能使目标论文被分配给特定审稿人，并提出了增强系统鲁棒性的建议。