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What and Who
Assigning Papers to Referees
Prof. Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn
Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik - D1
Ringvorlesung
AG 1, AG 2, AG 3, AG 4, AG 5, SWS, RG1, MMCI
MPI Audience
English
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Date, Time and Location
Thursday, 18 December 2008
13:00
60 Minutes
E1 3 - Hörsaal Gebäude
0.16
Saarbrücken
Abstract
CS conferences typically have a program committee (PC) that selects the papers for the conference from among the submitted papers. The work of the PC is supported by a conference support system, e.g., EasyChair. It is the task of the program chair to assign the papers to the members of the PC. In order to achieve an effective assignment, the PC members classify the papers according to interest. The EasyChair conference system knows four levels: strongly interested, weakly interested, not interested, conflict of interest. Given the classification of the papers by the PC members, the chair seeks a good assignment. What are the right objectives? Here are some: balancing the load of the PC members, making the task of the PC members worthwhile by assigning their high interest papers, guaranteeing each paper a sufficient number of reviews, guaranteeing each paper a sufficient total level of interest, and so on.
We have developed algorithms that compute assignments that satisfy well motivated criteria of load balance and fairness. We also obtained hardness results. I will discuss our results and present open problems.
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Jennifer Gerling, 12/17/2008 13:24 -- Created document.