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Finding All Stable Pairs and Solutions to the Many-to-Many Stable Matching Problem.

Authors :
Eirinakis, Pavlos
Magos, Dimitrios
Mourtos, Ioannis
Miliotis, Panayiotis
Source :
INFORMS Journal on Computing. Spring2012, Vol. 24 Issue 2, p245-259. 15p. 4 Diagrams, 6 Charts.
Publication Year :
2012

Abstract

The many-to-many stable matching problem (MM), defined in the context of a job market, asks for an assignment of workers to firms satisfying the quota of each agent and being stable, pairwise or setwise, with respect to given preference lists or relations. In this paper, we propose a time-optimal algorithm that identifies all stable worker-firm pairs and all stable assignments under pairwise stability, individual preferences, and the max-min criterion. We revisit the poset graph of rotations to obtain an optimal algorithm for enumerating all solutions to the MM and an improved algorithm finding the minimum-weight one. Furthermore, we establish the applicability of all aforementioned algorithms under more complex preference and stability criteria. In a constraint programming context, we introduce a constraint that models the MM and an encoding of the MM as a constraint satisfaction problem. Finally, we provide a series of computational results, including the case where side constraints are imposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
10919856
Volume :
24
Issue :
2
Database :
Academic Search Index
Journal :
INFORMS Journal on Computing
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
84938206
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1287/ijoc.1110.0449