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Architecture of a Conference Management System Providing Advanced Paper Assignment Features

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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 34 - Number 3
Year of Publication: 2011
Authors: Yordan Kalmukov
10.5120/4083-5888

Yordan Kalmukov . Architecture of a Conference Management System Providing Advanced Paper Assignment Features. International Journal of Computer Applications. 34, 3 ( November 2011), 51-59. DOI=10.5120/4083-5888

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author = { Yordan Kalmukov },
title = { Architecture of a Conference Management System Providing Advanced Paper Assignment Features },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { November 2011 },
volume = { 34 },
number = { 3 },
month = { November },
year = { 2011 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 51-59 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume34/number3/4083-5888/ },
doi = { 10.5120/4083-5888 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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Abstract

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 calculate how semantically close they are. Reviewers are allowed to bid on the papers they would like to (or not like to) review and to explicitly state conflicts of interest (CoI) with papers. An automatic CoI detection is checking for additional conflicts based on institutional affiliation, co-authorship (within the local database) and previous co-authorship in the past (within the major bibliographic indexes and digital libraries). The algorithm for automatic assignment takes into account all – selected keywords, reviewers’ bids and conflicts of interest and tries to find the most accurate assignment while maintaining load balancing among reviewers.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Conference management systems Assignment of reviewers to papers Software architecture Web applications Conflicts of interest detection Bidding on papers

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