ConfAssist: A Conflict Resolution Framework for Assisting the Categorization of Computer Science Conferences

Classifying publication venues into top-tier or non top-tier is quite subjective and can be debatable at times. sIn this paper, we propose ConfAssist, a novel assisting framework for conference categorization that aims to address the limitations in the existing systems and portals for venue classification. We identify various features related to the stability of conferences that might help us separate a top-tier conference from the rest of the lot. While there are many clear cases where expert agreement can be almost immediately achieved as to whether a conference is a top-tier or not, there are equally many cases that can result in a conflict even among the experts. ConfAssist tries to serve as an aid in such cases by increasing the confidence of the experts in their decision. A human judgment survey was conducted with 28 domain experts. The results were quite impressive with 91.6% classification accuracy.