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Given a set of $n$ men represented by $n$ points lying on a line, and $n$ women represented by $n$ points lying on another parallel line, with each person having a list that ranks some people of opposite gender as his/her acceptable…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Suthee Ruangwises , Toshiya Itoh

The stable marriage problem is a well-known problem of matching men to women so that no man and woman who are not married to each other both prefer each other. Such a problem has a wide variety of practical applications ranging from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Maria Pini , Francesca Rossi , Brent Venable , Toby Walsh

The stable roommates problem is a non-bipartite version of the stable matching problem in a bipartite graph. In this paper, we consider the stable roommates problem with ties. In particular, we focus on strong stability, which is one of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Naoyuki Kamiyama

Motivated by group-project distribution, we introduce and study stable matching under the constraint of applicants needing to share a location to be matched with the same institute, which we call the Location-Restricted Stable Matching…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Garret Castro

In this paper, we begin by discussing different types of preference profiles related to the stable marriage problem. We then introduce the concept of soulmates, which are a man and a woman who rank each other first. Inversely, we examine…

This paper studies matching markets where institutions are matched with possibly more than one individual. The matching market contains some couples who view the pair of jobs as complements. First, we show by means of an example that a…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-07-11 Shashwat Khare , Souvik Roy , Ton Storcken

The classical Stable Roommates problem is to decide whether there exists a matching of an even number of agents such that no two agents which are not matched to each other would prefer to be with each other rather than with their…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Robert Bredereck , Jiehua Chen , Ugo Paavo Finnendahl , Rolf Niedermeier

A well known result states that stability criterion for matchings in two-sided markets doesn't ensure uniqueness. This opens the door for a moral question with regard to the optimal stable matching from a social point of view. Here, a new…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Royi Jacobovic

Assume that $n = 2k$ potential roommates each have an ordered preference of the $n-1$ others. A stable matching is a perfect matching of the $n$ roommates in which no two unmatched people prefer each other to their matched partners. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-13 Byron Chin , Marcus Michelen

Are you having trouble getting married? These days, there are lots of products on the market for dating, from apps to websites and matchmakers, but we know a simpler way! That's right -- your path to coupled life isn't through Tinder: it's…

We study stable matching problems where agents have multilayer preferences: There are $\ell$ layers each consisting of one preference relation for each agent. Recently, Chen et al. [EC '18] studied such problems with strict preferences,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Matthias Bentert , Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger , Tomohiro Koana

In the theory of two-sided matching markets there are two well-known models: the marriage model (where no money is involved) and the assignment model (where payments are involved). Roth and Sotomayor (1990) asked for an explanation for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kimmo Eriksson , Johan Karlander

An instance $I$ of the Stable Matching Problem (SMP) is given by a bipartite graph with a preference list of neighbors for every vertex. A swap in $I$ is the exchange of two consecutive vertices in a preference list. A swap can be viewed as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Eduard Eiben , Gregory Gutin , Philip R. Neary , Clément Rambaud , Magnus Wahlström , Anders Yeo

We initiate the study of external manipulations in Stable Marriage by considering several manipulative actions as well as several manipulation goals. For instance, one goal is to make sure that a given pair of agents is matched in a stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Niclas Boehmer , Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Rolf Niedermeier

We study a dynamic model of the relationship between two people where the states depend on the "power" in the relationship. We perform a comprehensive analysis of stability of the system, and determine a set of conditions under which stable…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Sam Ganzfried

In this paper, we consider a matroid generalization of the stable matching problem. In particular, we consider the setting where preferences may contain ties. For this generalization, we propose a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Naoyuki Kamiyama

We present an n-ary constraint for the stable marriage problem. This constraint acts between two sets of integer variables where the domains of those variables represent preferences. Our constraint enforces stability and disallows bigamy.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-08-02 Chris Unsworth , Patrick Prosser

We study the classical, two-sided stable marriage problem under pairwise preferences. In the most general setting, agents are allowed to express their preferences as comparisons of any two of their edges and they also have the right to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Ágnes Cseh , Attila Juhos

Focusing on Stable Roommates (SR) instances, we contribute to the toolbox for conducting experiments for stable matching problems. We introduce a polynomial-time computable pseudometric to measure the similarity of SR instances, analyze its…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger , Stanisław Szufa

In this article we study the stable marriage game induced by the men-proposing Gale-Shapley algorithm. Our setting is standard: all the lists are complete and the matching mechanism is the men-proposing Gale-Shapley algorithm. It is well…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Sushmita Gupta , Kazuo Iwama , Shuichi Miyazaki