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When computing stable matchings, it is usually assumed that the preferences of the agents in the matching market are fixed. However, in many realistic scenarios, preferences change over time. Consequently, an initially stable matching may…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Niclas Boehmer , Klaus Heeger , Rolf Niedermeier

We study the three-dimensional stable matching problem with cyclic preferences. This model involves three types of agents, with an equal number of agents of each type. The types form a cyclic order such that each agent has a complete…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Chi-Kit Lam , C. Gregory Plaxton

We provide a framework to study stability notions for two-sided dynamic matching markets in which matching is one-to-one and irreversible. The framework gives center stage to the set of matchings an agent anticipates would ensue should they…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2024-10-17 Laura Doval , Pablo Schenone

In this paper, we consider the problem of choosing a set of multi-party contracts, where each coalition of agents has a non-empty finite set of contracts to choose from. We call such problems, contract choice problems. We provide conditions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Somdeb Lahiri

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

The stable roommates problem can admit multiple different stable matchings. We have different criteria for deciding which one is optimal, but computing those is often NP-hard. We show that the problem of finding generous or rank-maximal…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Sofia Simola , David Manlove

A criterion on the asymptotic stability of fractional-order systems with incomensurate orders is proposed in this paper. Existing methods always assume order parameters be rational numbers or the ratios of any two orders be rational…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-02-22 Jing Yang , Xiaorong Hou

We generalize several schedule matching theorems of Baiou-Balinski (Math. Oper. Res., 27 (2002), 485) and Alkan-Gale (J. Econ. Th. 112 (2003), 289) by applying a fixed point method of Fleiner (Math. Oper. Res., 28 (2003), 103). Thanks to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-05-13 Vilmos Komornik , Zsolt Komornik , Christelle K. Viauroux

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

Results from the communication complexity literature have demonstrated that stable matching requires communication: one cannot find or verify a stable match without having access to essentially all of the ordinal preference information held…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2022-12-09 Naveen Durvasula

We study a natural generalization of stable matching to the maximum weight stable matching problem and we obtain a combinatorial polynomial time algorithm for it by reducing it to the problem of finding a maximum weight ideal cut in a DAG.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Tung Mai , Vijay V. Vazirani

The stable marriage problem, as addressed by Gale and Shapely [1] consists of providing a bipartite matching between n " boys " and n " girls "-each of whom have a totally ordered preference list over the other set-such that there exists no…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Mircea Adrian Digulescu

In the Hospitals/Residents (HR) problem, agents are partitioned into hospitals and residents. Each agent wishes to be matched to an agent in the other set and has a strict preference over these potential matches. A matching is stable if…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Georgios Askalidis , Nicole Immorlica , Augustine Kwanashie , David F. Manlove , Emmanouil Pountourakis

We study stability notions for networked many-to-many matching markets with individually insignificant agents in distributional form. Outcomes are formulated as joint distributions over characteristics of agents and contract choices.…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-01 Michael Greinecker , Karolina Vocke

The Hospital Residents problem with sizes (HRS) is a generalization of the well-studied hospital residents (HR) problem. In the HRS problem, an agent $a$ has a size $s(a)$ and the agent occupies $s(a)$ many positions of the hospital $h$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Haricharan Balasundaram , J B Krishnashree , Girija Limaye , Meghana Nasre

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

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

In the stable marriage problem N men and N women have to be matched by pairs under the constraint that the resulting matching is stable. We study the statistical properties of stable matchings in the large N limit using both numerical and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael Dzierzawa , Marie-Jose Omero

We consider stable three-dimensional matchings of three categories of agents, such as women, men and dogs. This was suggested long ago by Knuth (1976), but very little seems to have been published on this problem. Based on computer…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kimmo Eriksson , Jonas Sjostrand , Pontus Strimling

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