Comparative Analysis of Existing Methods and Algorithms for Automatic Assignment of Reviewers to Papers (1012.2019v1)

Abstract: The article focuses on the importance of the automatic assignment of reviewers to papers for increasing the assignment accuracy therefore the quality of the scientific event itself. It discusses the main aspects that influence the assignment accuracy, performs a detailed analysis of the methods of describing papers and reviewers' competences used by the existing conference management systems and suggests some improvements in the way the similarity factors are calculated.