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We study the stable marriage problem in the partial information setting where the agents, although they have an underlying true strict linear order, are allowed to specify partial orders. Specifically, we focus on the case where the agents…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Vijay Menon , Kate Larson

In a seminal paper on finding large matchings in sparse random graphs, Karp and Sipser proposed two algorithms for this task. The second algorithm has been intensely studied, but due to technical difficulties, the first algorithm has…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-28 Michael Anastos

The traveling tournament problem is a well-known benchmark problem of the sports scheduling. We propose an approximation algorithm for the traveling tournament problem with the constraints such that both the number of consecutive home games…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Shinji Imahori

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 NP-hard \textsc{Group Closeness Centrality Maximization} problem, the input is a graph $G = (V,E)$ and a positive integer $k$, and the task is to find a set $S \subseteq V$ of size $k$ that maximizes the reciprocal of group farness…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Christian Schulz , Jakob Ternes , Henning Woydt

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 study a practical centralized matching problem which assigns children to daycare centers. The collective preferences of siblings from the same family introduce complementarities, which can lead to the absence of stable matchings, as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Zhaohong Sun , Tomohiko Yokoyama , Makoto Yokoo

In this paper we study the fine-grained complexity of finding exact and approximate solutions to problems in P. Our main contribution is showing reductions from exact to approximate solution for a host of such problems. As one (notable)…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Lijie Chen , Shafi Goldwasser , Kaifeng Lyu , Guy N. Rothblum , Aviad Rubinstein

We prove the existence of approximate correlated equilibrium of support size polylogarithmic in the number of players and the number of actions per player. In particular, using the probabilistic method, we show that there exists a multiset…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-29 Yakov Babichenko , Siddharth Barman , Ron Peretz

When designing a preemptive online algorithm for the maximum matching problem, we wish to maintain a valid matching M while edges of the underlying graph are presented one after the other. When presented with an edge e, the algorithm should…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Leah Epstein , Asaf Levin , Danny Segev , Oren Weimann

We analyze the computational complexity of several new variants of edge-matching puzzles. First we analyze inequality (instead of equality) constraints between adjacent tiles, proving the problem NP-complete for strict inequalities but…

Given a graph, an $L(p,1)$-labeling of the graph is an assignment $f$ from the vertex set to the set of nonnegative integers such that for any pair of vertices $(u,v),|f (u) - f (v)| \ge p$ if $u$ and $v$ are adjacent, and $f(u) \neq f(v)$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Tesshu Hanaka , Kazuma Kawai , Hirotaka Ono

We study the computational complexity of several problems connected with finding a maximal distance-$k$ matching of minimum cardinality or minimum weight in a given graph. We introduce the class of $k$-equimatchable graphs which is an edge…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Yury Kartynnik , Andrew Ryzhikov

In this paper, we study the relations between the numerical structure of the optimal solutions of a convex programming problem defined on the edge set of a simple graph and the stability number (i.e. the maximum size of a subset of pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. Greco

The maximal matching problem has received considerable attention in the self-stabilizing community. Previous work has given different self-stabilizing algorithms that solves the problem for both the adversarial and fair distributed daemon,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Fredrik Manne , Morten Mjelde , Laurence Pilard , Sébastien Tixeuil

Computing an optimal cycle in a given homology class, also referred to as the homology localization problem, is known to be an NP-hard problem in general. Furthermore, there is currently no known optimality criterion that localizes classes…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Amritendu Dhar , Vijay Natarajan , Abhishek Rathod

An important aspect in systems of multiple autonomous agents is the exploitation of synergies via coalition formation. In this paper, we solve various open problems concerning the computational complexity of stable partitions in additively…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Haris Aziz , Felix Brandt , Hans Georg Seedig

Motivated by the fact that in several cases a matching in a graph is stable if and only if it is produced by a greedy algorithm, we study the problem of computing a maximum weight greedy matching on weighted graphs, termed GreedyMatching.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-05-23 Argyrios Deligkas , George B. Mertzios , Paul G. Spirakis

We study the problem of finding "fair" stable matchings in the Stable Marriage problem with Incomplete lists (SMI). In particular, we seek stable matchings that are optimal with respect to profile, which is a vector that indicates the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Frances Cooper , David Manlove

Given real numbers whose sum is an integer, we study the problem of finding integers which match these real numbers as closely as possible, in the sense of L^p norm, while preserving the sum. We describe the structure of solutions for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Rama Cont , Massoud Heidari