FairColor: An efficient algorithm for the Balanced and Fair Reviewer Assignment Problem

Khadra Bouanane, Abdeldjaouad Nusayr Medakene, Abdellah Benbelghit, Samir Brahim Belhaouari

Abstract: Highlights•Individual relative fairness in the Reviewer Assignment Problem is introduced.•A novel formulation of the Reviewer Assignment Problem as a Coloring Problem.•Necessary conditions for feasible, fair and balanced assignments are provided.•A sufficient condition for ensuring optimality in efficiency and fairness is given.•A fast algorithm for finding balanced and fair assignments, FairColor, is introduced.