Conference paper assignment

This example considers the problem of finding a suitable assignment of a se t of referees to each one of a set of papers submitted to a conference, giv en the preferences expressed by the referees regarding the papers they are willing to review, the adequation between their areas of competence and the topics of the papers, and a set of regulations bearing on the global assig nment. This example illustrates the issue of fusing heterogeneous data cons isting of individual preference profiles and a set of global regulations. ( C) 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.