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We consider a dynamic system with multiple types of customers and servers. Each type of waiting customer or server joins a separate queue, forming a bipartite graph with customer-side queues and server-side queues. The platform can match…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-11-19 Zixian Yang , Lei Ying

To address efficiency and design challenges in choice-based matching platforms, we introduce a two-sided assortment optimization framework under general choice preferences. The goal in this problem is to maximize the expected number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Omar El Housni , Ulysse Hennebelle , Alfredo Torrico

We study the design of a decentralized two-sided matching market in which agents' search is guided by the platform. There are finitely many agent types, each with (potentially random) preferences drawn from known type-specific…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Nicole Immorlica , Brendan Lucier , Vahideh Manshadi , Alexander Wei

Two-sided matching platforms provide users with menus of match recommendations. To maximize the number of realized matches between the two sides (referred here as customers and suppliers), the platform must balance the inherent tension…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Itai Ashlagi , Anilesh K. Krishnaswamy , Rahul Makhijani , Daniela Saban , Kirankumar Shiragur

We study the problem of matching agents who arrive at a marketplace over time and leave after d time periods. Agents can only be matched while they are present in the marketplace. Each pair of agents can yield a different match value, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Itai Ashlagi , Maximilien Burq , Patrick Jaillet , Amin Saberi

We consider a matching system with random arrivals of items of different types. The items wait in queues -- one per each item type -- until they are "matched." Each matching requires certain quantities of items of different types; after a…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-04-24 Mohammadreza Nazari , Alexander L. Stolyar

We study a dynamic matching setting where homogeneous agents arrive at random according to a Poisson process and randomly form edges yielding a sparse market. Agents stay in the market according to a certain sojourn time and wait to be…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Johannes Bäumler , Martin Bullinger , Stefan Kober , Donghao Zhu

The problem of appropriately matching items subject to compatibility constraints arises in a number of important applications. While most of the literature on matching theory focuses on a static setting with a fixed number of items, several…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Céline Comte

In this focused technical paper, we present long-awaited algorithmic advances toward the efficient construction of near-optimal replenishment policies for a true inventory management classic, the economic warehouse lot scheduling problem.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Danny Segev

In this paper, we study a controllable tandem queueing system consisting of two nodes and a controller, in which customers arrive according to a Poisson process and must receive service at both nodes before leaving the system. A decision…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-04-07 Liu Zaiming , Chen Gang , Wu Jinbiao

Motivated by our collaboration with a major refugee resettlement agency in the U.S., we study a dynamic matching problem where each new arrival (a refugee case) must be matched immediately and irrevocably to one of the static resources (a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Kirk Bansak , Soonbong Lee , Vahideh Manshadi , Rad Niazadeh , Elisabeth Paulson

We consider an intermediary's problem of dynamically matching demand and supply of heterogeneous types in a periodic-review fashion. More specifically, there are two disjoint sets of demand and supply types, and a reward associated with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-11-20 Ming Hu , Yun Zhou

In this paper, we discuss an interesting but challenging bilateral stochastically matching problem: A more general matched queue with matching batch pair (m, n) and two types (i.e., types A and B) of impatient customers, where the arrivals…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-03-22 Heng-Li Liu , Quan-Lin Li , Chi Zhang

In matching markets such as kidney exchanges and freight exchanges, delayed matching has been shown to improve overall market efficiency. The benefits of delay are highly sensitive to participants' sojourn times and departure behavior, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Ruiqi Zhou , Donghao Zhu , Houcai Shen

We present an analysis of large-scale load balancing systems, where the processing time distribution of tasks depends on both the task and server types. Our study focuses on the asymptotic regime, where the number of servers and task types…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-06-19 Zhisheng Zhao , Debankur Mukherjee

We consider a service system where agents (or, servers) are invited on-demand. Customers arrive as a Poisson process and join a customer queue. Customer service times are i.i.d. exponential. Agents' behavior is random in two respects.…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-09-09 Lam Nguyen , Alexander Stolyar

Suppose an online platform wants to compare a treatment and control policy, e.g., two different matching algorithms in a ridesharing system, or two different inventory management algorithms in an online retail site. Standard randomized…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-12-27 Peter Glynn , Ramesh Johari , Mohammad Rasouli

We consider a model for repeated stochastic matching where compatibility is probabilistic, is realized the first time agents are matched, and persists in the future. Such a model has applications in the gig economy, kidney exchange, and…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mobin Y. Jeloudar , Irene Lo , Tristan Pollner , Amin Saberi

We study generalizations of online bipartite matching in which each arriving vertex (customer) views a ranked list of offline vertices (products) and matches to (purchases) the first one they deem acceptable. The number of products that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Brian Brubach , Nathaniel Grammel , Will Ma , Aravind Srinivasan

A key operational challenge for call centers is to decide, in real time, which waiting customer should be served by which available agent. This is known as skill-based routing, and the decision becomes especially difficult in large systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Baris Ata , Ebru Kasikaralar