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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…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-07-05 Julián Mestre

Popular matchings provide a model of matching under preferences in which a solution corresponds to a Condorcet winner in voting systems. In a bipartite graph in which the vertices have preferences over their neighbours, a matching is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Yuga Kanaya , Kenjiro Takazawa

We consider popular matching problems in both bipartite and non-bipartite graphs with strict preference lists. It is known that every stable matching is a min-size popular matching. A subclass of max-size popular matchings called dominant…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Yuri Faenza , Telikepalli Kavitha , Vladlena Powers , Xingyu Zhang

Let G = ((A,B),E) be an instance of the stable marriage problem where every vertex ranks its neighbors in a strict order of preference. A matching M in G is popular if M does not lose a head-to-head election against any matching. Popular…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yuri Faenza , Telikepalli Kavitha

We consider the cheating strategies for the popular matchings problem. The popular matchings problem can be defined as follows: Let G = (A U P, E) be a bipartite graph where A denotes a set of agents, P denotes a set of posts and the edges…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Meghana Nasre

For a graph $G=(V,E),$ a matching $M$ is a set of independent edges. The topic of matchings is well studied in graph theory. In this paper many varieties of matchings are discussed.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-10 Todd Fenstermacher , Soumendra Ganguly , Stephen Hedetniemi , Renu Laskar

Existence of a perfect matching in a random bipartite digraph with bipartition $(V_1, V_2)$, $|V_i|=n$, is studied. The graph is generated in two rounds of random selections of a potential matching partner such that the average number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-15 Michal Karoński , Ed Overman , Boris Pittel

Two-sided popular matchings in bipartite graphs are a well-known generalization of stable matchings in the marriage setting, and they are especially relevant when preference lists are incomplete. In this case, the cardinality of a stable…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Yuri Faenza , Vladlena Powers , Xingyu Zhang

We study the problem of counting the number of popular matchings in a given instance. A popular matching instance consists of agents A and houses H, where each agent ranks a subset of houses according to their preferences. A matching is an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-12-13 Rupam Acharyya , Sourav Chakraborty , Nitesh Jha

The stable matching problem is a prototype model in economics and social sciences where agents act selfishly to optimize their own satisfaction, subject to mutually conflicting constraints. A stable matching is a pairing of adjacent…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephan Mertens

For a set A of n applicants and a set I of m items, we consider a problem of computing a matching of applicants to items, i.e., a function M mapping A to I; here we assume that each applicant $x \in A$ provides a preference list on items in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-09-29 Toshiya Itoh , Osamu Watanabe

Say that an edge of a graph G dominates itself and every other edge adjacent to it. An edge dominating set of a graph G = (V,E) is a subset of edges E' of E which dominates all edges of G. In particular, if every edge of G is dominated by…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Min Chih Lin , Michel J. Mizrahi , Jayme L. Szwarcfiter

Suppose that each member of a set of agents has a preference list of a subset of houses, possibly involving ties and each agent and house has their capacity denoting the maximum number of correspondingly agents/houses that can be matched to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Katarzyna Paluch

A geometric graph is a graph whose vertex set is a set of points in the plane and whose edge set contains straight-line segments. A matching in a graph is a subset of edges of the graph with no shared vertices. A matching is called perfect…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-10-21 Ahmad Biniaz

Graph matching, also known as network alignment, refers to finding a bijection between the vertex sets of two given graphs so as to maximally align their edges. This fundamental computational problem arises frequently in multiple fields…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Cheng Mao , Mark Rudelson , Konstantin Tikhomirov

Given a bipartite graph, where the two sets of vertices are applicants and posts and ranks on the edges represent preferences of applicants over posts, a {\em rank-maximal} matching is one in which the maximum number of applicants is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Pratik Ghosal , Adam Kunysz , Katarzyna Paluch

We study popular matchings in three classical settings: the house allocation problem, the marriage problem, and the roommates problem. In the popular matching problem, (a subset of) the vertices in a graph have preference orderings over…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Frank Connor , Louis-Roy Langevin , Ndiamé Ndiaye , Agnès Totschnig , Rohit Vasishta , Adrian Vetta

An instance of a strongly stable matching problem (SSMP) is an undirected bipartite graph $G=(A \cup B, E)$, with an adjacency list of each vertex being a linearly ordered list of ties, which are subsets of vertices equally good for a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Pratik Ghosal , Adam Kunysz , Katarzyna Paluch

Ordered matchings, defined as graphs with linearly ordered vertices, where each vertex is connected to exactly one edge, play a crucial role in the area of ordered graphs and their homomorphisms. Therefore, we consider related problems from…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Michal Čertík , Andreas Emil Feldmann , Jaroslav Nešetřil , Paweł Rzążewski

An instance of the super-stable matching problem with incomplete lists and ties is an undirected bipartite graph $G = (A \cup B, E)$, with an adjacency list being a linearly ordered list of ties. Ties are subsets of vertices equally good…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Changyong Hu , Vijay K. Garg