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We study the two-sided stable matching problem with one-sided uncertainty for two sets of agents A and B, with equal cardinality. Initially, the preference lists of the agents in A are given but the preferences of the agents in B are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Evripidis Bampis , Konstantinos Dogeas , Thomas Erlebach , Nicole Megow , Jens Schlöter , Amitabh Trehan

A \emph{Stick graph} is an intersection graph of axis-aligned segments such that the left end-points of the horizontal segments and the bottom end-points of the vertical segments lie on a `ground line,' a line with slope $-1$. It is an open…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Felice De Luca , Md Iqbal Hossain , Stephen Kobourov , Anna Lubiw , Debajyoti Mondal

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…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Rohith Reddy Gangam , Tung Mai , Nitya Raju , Vijay V. Vazirani

We are given a bipartite graph $G = \left( A \cup B, E \right)$. In the one-sided model, every $a \in A$ (often called agents) ranks its neighbours $z \in N_{a}$ strictly, and no $b \in B$ has any preference order over its neighbours $y \in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Koustav De

In two-sided matching markets, the agents are partitioned into two sets. 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 there are no blocking…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Georgios Askalidis , Nicole Immorlica , Emmanouil Pountourakis

The stability number of a graph G is the cardinality of a stability system of G (that is of a stable set of maximum size of G). A graph is alpha-stable if its stability number remains the same upon both the deletion and the addition of any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vadim E. Levit , Eugen Mandrescu

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

A group of $n$ agents with numerical preferences for each other are to be assigned to the $n$ seats of a dining table. We study two natural topologies:~circular (cycle) tables and panel (path) tables. For a given seating arrangement, an…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Damien Berriaud , Andrei Constantinescu , Roger Wattenhofer

Within the context of stochastic probing with commitment, we consider the online stochastic matching problem; that is, the one-sided online bipartite matching problem where edges adjacent to an online node must be probed to determine if…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Allan Borodin , Calum MacRury , Akash Rakheja

An edge-weighted graph $G=(V,E)$ is called stable if the value of a maximum-weight matching equals the value of a maximum-weight fractional matching. Stable graphs play an important role in some interesting game theory problems, such as…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Zhuan Khye Koh , Laura Sanità

A fundamental property of choice functions is stability, which, loosely speaking, prescribes that choice sets are invariant under adding and removing unchosen alternatives. We provide several structural insights that improve our…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-04-06 Felix Brandt , Markus Brill , Hans Georg Seedig , Warut Suksompong

Topological data analysis can provide insight on the structure of weighted graphs and digraphs. However, some properties underlying a given (di)graph are hardly mappable to simplicial complexes. We introduce \textit{steady} and…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Mattia G. Bergomi , Massimo Ferri , Antonella Tavaglione

In a graph where vertices have preferences over their neighbors, a matching is called popular if it does not lose a head-to-head election against any other matching when the vertices vote between the matchings. Popular matchings can be seen…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Ildikó Schlotter , Ágnes Cseh

A dynamic bipartite matching model is given by a bipartite matching graph which determines the possible matchings between the various types of supply and demand items. Both supply and demand items arrive to the system according to a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Arnaud Cadas , Ana Bušić , Josu Doncel

We consider the stable matching problem when the preference lists are not given explicitly but are represented in a succinct way and ask whether the problem becomes computationally easier and investigate other implications. We give…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-21 Marvin Künnemann , Daniel Moeller , Ramamohan Paturi , Stefan Schneider

We generalize two well-known game-theoretic models by introducing multiple partners matching games, defined by a graph $G=(N,E)$, with an integer vertex capacity function $b$ and an edge weighting $w$. The set $N$ consists of a number of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2016-09-01 Péter Biró , Walter Kern , Daniël Paulusma , Péter Wojuteczky

Let $G = (A \cup B,E)$ be a bipartite graph where the set $A$ consists of agents or main players and the set $B$ consists of jobs or secondary players. Every vertex has a strict ranking of its neighbors. A matching $M$ is popular if for any…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Telikepalli Kavitha

We introduce and study a new model that we call the {\em matching model}. Items arrive one by one in a buffer and depart from it as soon as possible but by pairs. The items of a departing pair are said to be {\em matched}. There is a finite…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-03 Jean Mairesse , Pascal Moyal

Let $G=(U \cup V, E)$ be a bipartite graph, where $U$ represents jobs and $V$ represents machines. We study a new variant of the bipartite matching problem in which each job in $U$ can be matched to at most one machine in $V$, and the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Shaul Rosner , Tami Tamir

We study the existence of stable matchings when agents have choice correspondences instead of preference relations. We extend the framework of \cite{chambers2017choice} by weakening the path independence assumption. For many-to-many…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-05-20 Varun Bansal , Mihir Bhattacharya , Ojasvi Khare