Maximum Weight Online Matching with Deadlines
Abstract
We study the problem of matching agents who arrive at a marketplace over time and leave after d time periods. Agents can only be matched while they are present in the marketplace. Each pair of agents can yield a different match value, and the planner's goal is to maximize the total value over a finite time horizon. First we study the case in which vertices arrive in an adversarial order. We provide a randomized 0.25-competitive algorithm building on a result by Feldman et al. (2009) and Lehman et al. (2006). We extend the model to the case in which departure times are drawn independently from a distribution with non-decreasing hazard rate, for which we establish a 1/8-competitive algorithm. When the arrival order is chosen uniformly at random, we show that a batching algorithm, which computes a maximum-weighted matching every (d+1) periods, is 0.279-competitive.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1808.03526,
title = {Maximum Weight Online Matching with Deadlines},
author = {Itai Ashlagi and Maximilien Burq and Chinmoy Dutta and Patrick Jaillet and Amin Saberi and Chris Sholley},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.03526},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1803.01285