How to Select the Best Paper: Towards Justification (and Possible Enhancement) of Current Semi-Heuristic Procedures

Authors

Francisco Zapata, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Olga Kosheleva, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

8-2018

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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-18-61

Published in Mathematical Structures and Modeling, 2018, Vol. 47, pp. 101-106.

Abstract

To select the best paper at a conference or in a journal, people use reasonably standard semi-heuristic procedures like averaging scores. These procedures usually work well, but sometimes, new situations appear for which the existing procedures are not automatically applicable. Since the existing procedures are heuristic, it is often not clear how to extend them to new situations. In this paper, we provide a possible explanation for the existing procedures. This explanations enables us to naturally generalize these procedures to possible new situations.