Mathematical Models for the Reviewer Assignment Problem in Project Management and a Case Study

Project management is a critical process for every institution and/or organization. This process should be managed as best as possible in order to manage resources and time well and at the same time achieve successful results. One of the reasons that make project management difficult is the increase in project proposals with the increase in reading rates and incentives. The evaluation process of the project proposals includes the assignment of an expert who will evaluate the project. This stage is solved with reviewer assignment problems in the literature. When the literature is examined, it is seen that the general aim of reviewer assignment problems is to maximize the degree of reviewer-project match. This study, in addition to the literature, it is aimed to minimize the evaluation time of the reviewers’ project proposals and to ensure a balanced distribution among the reviewers. When we look at the results of the test problems for this study, which has two objectives, maximum matching degree and minimum evaluation time, it is seen that the objectives have been met. In this way, the assignment, which was made manually and caused a waste of time, was completed in a fair and reliable way.