An algorithm to determine peer-reviewers Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:6017206, abstract = {The peer-review process is the most widely accepted certification mechanism for officially accepting the written results of researchers within the scientific community. An essential component of peer-review is the identification of competent referees to review a submitted manuscript. This article presents an algorithm to automatically determine the most appropriate reviewers for a manuscript by way of a co-authorship network data structure and a relative-rank particle-swarm algorithm. This approach is novel in that it is not limited to a pre-selected set of referees, is computationally efficient, requires no human-intervention, and, in some instances, can automatically identify conflict of interest situations. A useful application of this algorithm would be to open commentary peer-review systems because it provides a weighting for each referee with respects to their expertise in the domain of a manuscript. The algorithm is validated using referee bid data from the 2005 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Rodriguez, Marko A. and Bollen, Johan}, booktitle = {CIKM '08: Proceeding of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management}, citeulike-article-id = {6017206}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1458082.1458127}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1458082.1458127}, doi = {10.1145/1458082.1458127}, isbn = {978-1-59593-991-3}, keywords = {expert\_system, info612finalproject, peer\_review}, location = {Napa Valley, California, USA}, pages = {319--328}, posted-at = {2009-10-28 00:22:07}, priority = {4}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {An algorithm to determine peer-reviewers}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1458082.1458127}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:6017206 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6017206 N2 - The peer-review process is the most widely accepted certification mechanism for officially accepting the written results of researchers within the scientific community. An essential component of peer-review is the identification of competent referees to review a submitted manuscript. This article presents an algorithm to automatically determine the most appropriate reviewers for a manuscript by way of a co-authorship network data structure and a relative-rank particle-swarm algorithm. This approach is novel in that it is not limited to a pre-selected set of referees, is computationally efficient, requires no human-intervention, and, in some instances, can automatically identify conflict of interest situations. A useful application of this algorithm would be to open commentary peer-review systems because it provides a weighting for each referee with respects to their expertise in the domain of a manuscript. The algorithm is validated using referee bid data from the 2005 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. CY - Napa Valley, California, USA SN - 978-1-59593-991-3 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 328 TI - An algorithm to determine peer-reviewers PB - ACM T2 - CIKM '08: Proceeding of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management SP - 319 KW - expert_system KW - info612finalproject KW - peer_review AU - Rodriguez, Marko AU - Bollen, Johan PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1458082.1458127 ER -