01871nas a2200217   4500008004100000245009200041210006900133260000900202300001100211490000600222520115200228653002301380653001501403653001501418653003001433653002501463100001901488700001401507700001501521856011701536       2008                        eng d00aAutomating the management of scientific conferences using information mining techniques0 aAutomating the management of scientific conferences using inform  c2008  a3 - 110 v63 aConference management systems, which help organizers in carrying out tasks in the workflow, of scientific events are widely used in the academic world. In this paper we focus on tasks where methods from the domain of information retrieval, information management and information organization can assist the organizer, the program committee members and the participants. We present a method for the creation of an improved review process by better matching the reviewers expertise with the paper topics, which can to increase the quality of the conference. Furthermore the conference participants benefit from better access to the wealth of information accumulated throughout a conference series. The Conference organizers profit from the reduced workload because of the partial automating of tedious tasks, such as the review assignment, the compilation of the conference program and the creation of poster setup plans. We report on case studies from a small-sized (around 200 participants), a medium-sized (around 400 participants) as well as a large (more than 700 participants) conference in the computer science as well as the medical domains.10aAssignment problem10aAutomation10aClustering10aInformation visualization10aSelf-organizing maps1 aPesenhofer, A.1 aMayer, R.1 aRauber, A.  uhttp://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-56849090253&partnerID=40&md5=bcbf62b3dabc739191df5c6d0fcdad50