TY - GEN
T1 - The assignment of referees to WSCIO submissions
T2 - An evolutionary approach
AU - Knowles, Joshua
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The method used to assign referees to the manuscripts submitted to the 10th online World Conference on Soft Computing (WSC10) is described. Each of the 94 manuscripts received was associated with three unique reviewers from a program committee of 78 persons. A fairly advanced, hand-tuned fitness function based on inverse keyword-frequencies, keyword coverage, and penalties for referee-overuse was used to evolve a satisfactory assignment, via a standard evolutionary algorithm. The resulting referee-to-manuscript matches were hand-adjusted in a small number of cases. In total, only seven assignments (out of more than 280) were declined by referees, and the return-rate for completed reviews was 81%.
AB - The method used to assign referees to the manuscripts submitted to the 10th online World Conference on Soft Computing (WSC10) is described. Each of the 94 manuscripts received was associated with three unique reviewers from a program committee of 78 persons. A fairly advanced, hand-tuned fitness function based on inverse keyword-frequencies, keyword coverage, and penalties for referee-overuse was used to evolve a satisfactory assignment, via a standard evolutionary algorithm. The resulting referee-to-manuscript matches were hand-adjusted in a small number of cases. In total, only seven assignments (out of more than 280) were declined by referees, and the return-rate for completed reviews was 81%.
KW - Assignment problem
KW - Constrained optimization
KW - Evolutionary algorithm
KW - Penalty methods
KW - Transportation problem
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84860394078&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-36266-1_33
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-36266-1_33
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860394078
SN - 9783540291237
T3 - Advances in Soft Computing
SP - 341
EP - 350
BT - Applications of Soft Computing
ER -