An algorithm for the committee construction problem

Operational Research in education

“…Examples include: creating diverse coursework groups in a university (Reeves and Hickman 1992;Weitz and Jelassi 1992); allocating students to their university accommodation (O'Brien and Mingers 1997); and forming large but balanced tutor groups in a comprehensive school (Baker and Benn 2001). Advances in heuristics have allowed increasing 11 In addition to creating student groups, the goal programming approach has also been successfully used to help construct university committees for dealing with promotions where various rules must be applied in the construction (Ceylan et al 1994), and to assign university faculty to their teaching taking into account preferences for modules and times (Schniederjans and Kim 1987;Ozdemir and Gasimov 2004;Al-Yakoob and Sherali 2006). 12 The efficiency of a number of heuristics is tested and compared in the context of creating student groups (Weitz and Lakshminarayanan 1998). use of continuous as well as binary characteristics (on which to base the allocation), and the creation of unequal groups.…”

A Hybrid Knowledge and Model Approach for Reviewer Assignment

“…Step 2 Assessing expertise level of reviewers Determination of the expertise level of any reviewer in a specific area has been a research concept in the literature related with human science, education science and other similar areas [11]. To determine the expertise level, NSFC asks all reviewers to fill in a form related with the discipline areas of their professional subject, and of their published papers.…”