How to Choose Appropriate Experts for Peer Review: An Intelligent Recommendation Method in a Big Data Context. (22nd May 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Liu, Duanduan; Xu, Wei; Du, Wei; Wang, Fuyin
• Is Part Of: Data science journal. Volume 14(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-05-22
• Subjects: Experts recommendation -- Text mining -- Integration model -- Big data analysis; Science -- Data processing -- Periodicals; Database management -- Periodicals; 502.85
• DOI: 10.5334/dsj-2015-016
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1683-1470

Abstract

The rapid development of the internet has led to the accumulation of massive amounts of data, and thus we find ourselves entering the age of big data. Obtaining useful information from these big data is a crucial issue. The aim of this article is to solve the problem of recommending experts to provide peer reviews for universities and other scientific research institutions. Our proposed recommendation method has two stages. An information filtering method is first offered to identify proper experts as a candidate set. Then, an aggregation model with various constraints is suggested to recommend appropriate experts for each applicant. The proposed method has been implemented in an online research community, and the results exhibit that the proposed method is more effective than existing ones.