Design and implementation of a visual interface for conflicts-of-interest management in peer review venues

Abstract

Peer Review Conference venues are being hosted for both computer scientists and engineers to perform peer reviews on each other's works. To uphold the integrity of this process, it is crucial to minimize Conflict of Interest (COI) between an author and a peer-reviewer pair. To address this, Sourav S. Bhowmick, an associate professor at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), developed a novel data-driven system called CLOSET (COI Finder) to detect unreported COI violations for a given conference venue. This project aims to leverage the output generated by COI Finder, providing users with the tools to visualize, analyze, and manage any potential COI between authors and reviewers for a given conference venue.