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Weighted Popular Matchings

Data Structures and Algorithms 2007-07-05 v1

Abstract

We study the problem of assigning jobs to applicants. Each applicant has a weight and provides a preference list ranking a subset of the jobs. A matching M is popular if there is no other matching M' such that the weight of the applicants who prefer M' over M exceeds the weight of those who prefer M over M'. This paper gives efficient algorithms to find a popular matching if one exists.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0707.0546,
  title  = {Weighted Popular Matchings},
  author = {Julián Mestre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0707.0546},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

14 pages, 3 figures. A preliminary version appeared in the Proceedings of the 33rd International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP)

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