Decision Sciences Journal
Volume 30, Number 3
Summer 1999
The Conference Paper-Reviewer Assignment Problem
David Hartvigsen and Jerry C. Wei
Department of Management, College of Business Administration,
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556-0399, email: hartvigsen.1@nd.edu and
jwei@nd.edu
Richard Czuchlewski
Department of Operations Researh and Industrial Engineering,
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853
ABSTRACT. Conference organizers often face the following
problem: Given a collection of submitted papers, select a subset
to be presented at the conference. The bulk of the work often
amounts to assembling a pool of reviewers and then sending each
submitted paper to several reviewers. We present in this paper
a technique for finding a good assignment of papers to reviewers.
An important feature of the solution we find is that each paper
is sent to at least one reviewer who is “as expert as possible”
for that paper. A major component of the problem is modeled as
a bottleneck version of a capacitated transshipment problem.
Subject Areas: Assignment Problem, Network Theory,
Optimization, and Service Operations. |