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work_i5qooiji7zh7lmzgdqg6bxvhf4	Prashanti Manda	Avoiding "conflicts of interest": a computational approach to scheduling parallel conference tracks and its human evaluation	2019	28	.pdf	application/pdf	11637	1103	59	The frequency of topically similar talks in different concurrent sessions is, in fact, of preliminary schedules seeks to balance the topical similarity of talks within a session Keywords Topic modeling, Optimization, Conference scheduling Such large conferences often schedule oral presentations in concurrent sessions so conflicts, as might happen when talks of a similar topical nature are scheduled in concurrent We define the conference scheduling problem as the task of assigning talks to timeslots optimized conference schedules with multiple concurrent sessions in a fully automated talk and session placement in a Community-Informed Conference Scheduling approach Table 1 Parameters and variables used in the topic modeling, schedule creation, and optimization approaches. Figure 2 Mean discrimination ratio of the starting and final Ecology 2013 schedules for the four optimization approaches applied to each of the Random, Manual, Greedy, and ILP initial schedules. and optimization of conference schedules with concurrent sessions based on an objective	./cache/work_i5qooiji7zh7lmzgdqg6bxvhf4.pdf	./txt/work_i5qooiji7zh7lmzgdqg6bxvhf4.txt