Recent results in nonlinear peer-to-peer reviewing algorithms

On Monday I received spam, as many periodically do, from the World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, WMSCI '09. Their peer review process having been previously demonstrated by Stribling et al. to be susceptible to random paper generation, they have a new strategy:

Submitted papers or extended abstracts will have three kinds of reviews: double-blind (by at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer-to-peer reviews.
(Emphasis mine.) The conference web site further describes the peer-to-peer review process as
Informal, nonlinear, systemically interactive methods, for the achievement of what is called bottom-up quality[.]

This is great news; as a sometime peer-to-peer researcher myself, I'm eager to see nonlinear peer-to-peer reviewing technology adopted.

I understand that as future work WMSCI is developing an oblivious algorithm for ad-hoc low-power reviewing.

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