MINING GOOD AND FAIR REVIEWERS FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS

MPhil Thesis Defence


Title: "MINING GOOD AND FAIR REVIEWERS FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS"

By

Miss Liangliang Ye


Abstract

Today, we have many conferences in different research areas such as data 
mining, economics, biology and so on. Therefore, Conference paper assignment 
problem is a practical and important problem and has attracted a lot of 
researchers to explore it. There are four categories of methods and they will 
be introduced in this thesis. Although the papers mentioned in the thesis adopt 
various kinds of methods, their common goal is trying to assign good reviewers 
to the papers. A good reviewer is an expert that he/she could offer an 
professional review to the paper. In addition, we also need to take the 
workload of reviewers into our consideration and it is due to guarantee the 
quality of the reviews. Many papers mention the improvement of considering the 
conflict of interests into the assignment process in their future work but no 
paper has proposed a proper and effective way. This thesis analyzes the 
importance of the conflict of interests in the assignment problem of the 
conference papers and defines five types of conflict of interests. We merge 
these conflict of interests into the assignment algorithm. Experiments are 
conducted and the case study shows the effectiveness of our method.


Date:			Monday, 27 June 2011

Time:			10:30am – 12:30pm

Venue:			Room 3494
 			Lifts 25/26

Committee Members:	Dr. Raymond Wong (Supervisor)
 			Prof. Dik-Lun Lee (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Wilfred Ng


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