Challenges, experiments, and computational solutions in peer review Page 1 76
COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | JUNE 2022 | VOL. 65 | NO. 6 review articles IMA GER YB Y …

Peer review assignment algorithms aim to match research papers to suitable expert
reviewers, working to maximize the quality of the resulting reviews. A key challenge in …

The assignment of papers to reviewers is a crucial part of the peer review processes of large
publication venues, where organizers (eg, conference program chairs) rely on algorithms to …

As AI research surges in both impact and volume, conferences have imposed submission
limits to maintain paper quality and alleviate organizational pressure. In this work, we …

We present fast, fair, flexible, and welfare efficient algorithms for assigning reviewers to
submitted conference papers. Our approaches extend picking sequence mechanisms …

In conference peer review, reviewers are often asked to provide “bids” on each submitted
paper that express their interest in reviewing that paper. A paper assignment algorithm then …

The number of papers submitted to academic conferences is steadily rising in many
scientific disciplines. To handle this growth, systems for automatic paper-reviewer …

As the volume of submitted papers continues to rise, ensuring a fair and accurate
assignment of manuscripts to reviewers has become increasingly critical for academic …

Many conferences rely on paper bidding as a key component of their reviewer assignment
procedure. These bids are then taken into account when assigning reviewers to help ensure …

We study fair allocation of constrained resources, where a market designer optimizes overall
welfare while maintaining group fairness. In many large-scale settings, utilities are not …