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The stable marriage problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to any two-sided market. We consider a useful variation of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-06 Mirco Gelain , Maria Silvia Pini , Francesca RossI , Kristen Brent Venable , Toby Walsh

In this paper, we consider one-to-one matchings between two disjoint groups of agents. Each agent has a preference over a subset of the agents in the other group, and these preferences may contain ties. Strong stability is one of the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Naoyuki Kamiyama

The Stable Roommates problem involves matching a set of agents into pairs based on the agents' strict ordinal preference lists. The matching must be stable, meaning that no two agents strictly prefer each other to their assigned partners. A…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Michael McKay , David Manlove

In bipartite matching problems, agents on two sides of a graph want to be paired according to their preferences. The stability of a matching depends on these preferences, which in uncertain environments also reflect agents' beliefs about…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Jonathan Shaki , Jiarui Gan , Sarit Kraus

The stable marriage problem and its extensions have been extensively studied, with much of the work in the literature assuming that agents fully know their own preferences over alternatives. This assumption however is not always practical…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-03-21 Baharak Rastegari , Paul Goldberg , David Manlove

We study the computational complexity of several scenarios of strategic behavior for the Kemeny procedure in the setting of judgment aggregation. In particular, we investigate (1) manipulation, where an individual aims to achieve a better…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Ronald de Haan

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

We study stable matchings that are robust to preference changes in the two-sided stable matching setting of Gale and Shapley [GS62]. Given two instances $A$ and $B$ on the same set of agents, a matching is said to be robust if it is stable…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Rohith Reddy Gangam , Tung Mai , Nitya Raju , Vijay V. Vazirani

Strategic manipulation of elections is typically studied in the context of promoting individual candidates. In parliamentary elections, however, the focus shifts: voters may care more about the overall governing coalition than the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Hodaya Barr , Eden Hartman , Yonatan Aumann , Sarit Kraus

The stable marriage (SM) problem has a wide variety of practical applications, ranging from matching resident doctors to hospitals, to matching students to schools, or more generally to any two-sided market. In the classical formulation, n…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-07 M. Gelain , M. S. Pini , F. Rossi , K. B. Venable , T. Walsh

An important problem in computational social choice theory is the complexity of undesirable behavior among agents, such as control, manipulation, and bribery in election systems. These kinds of voting strategies are often tempting at the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-04-20 Andrew Lin

We study the Reaching Stable Marriage via Divorces (DivorceSM) problem of deciding, given a Stable Marriage instance and an initial matching $M$ , whether there exists a stable matching which is reachable from $M$ by divorce operations as…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Jiehua Chen

The Balanced Stable Marriage problem is a central optimization version of the classic Stable Marriage problem. Here, the output cannot be an arbitrary stable matching, but one that balances between the dissatisfaction of the two parties,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Sushmita Gupta , Sanjukta Roy , Saket Saurabh , Meirav Zehavi

We propose models for lobbying in a probabilistic environment, in which an actor (called "The Lobby") seeks to influence voters' preferences of voting for or against multiple issues when the voters' preferences are represented in terms of…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-03-01 Daniel Binkele-Raible , Gábor Erdélyi , Henning Fernau , Judy Goldsmith , Nicholas Mattei , Jörg Rothe

Since the early days of research in algorithms and complexity, the computation of stable matchings is a core topic. While in the classic setting the goal is to match up two agents (either from different "gender" (this is Stable Marriage) or…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-02 Robert Bredereck , Klaus Heeger , Dušan Knop , Rolf Niedermeier

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

The classic Stable Roommates problem (which is the non-bipartite generalization of the well-known Stable Marriage problem) asks whether there is a stable matching for a given set of agents, i.e. a partitioning of the agents into disjoint…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-02-21 Jiehua Chen , Danny Hermelin , Manuel Sorge , Harel Yedidsion

We consider Stable Marriage with Covering Constraints (SMC): in this variant of Stable Marriage, we distinguish a subset of women as well as a subset of men, and we seek a matching with fewest number of blocking pairs that matches all of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Matthias Mnich , Ildikó Schlotter

It is important to study how strategic agents can affect the outcome of an election. There has been a long line of research in the computational study of elections on the complexity of manipulative actions such as manipulation and bribery.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Zack Fitzsimmons , Edith Hemaspaandra

We propose two solution concepts for matchings under preferences: robustness and near stability. The former strengthens while the latter relaxes the classic definition of stability by Gale and Shapley (1962). Informally speaking, robustness…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Jiehua Chen , Piotr Skowron , Manuel Sorge