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Fair Matchings and Related Problems
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IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2013)
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- Publication Date: 2013-12-10
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Chien-Chung Huang, Telikepalli Kavitha, Kurt Mehlhorn, and Dimitrios Michail. Fair Matchings and Related Problems. In IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science (FSTTCS 2013). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 24, pp. 339-350, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2013)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.FSTTCS.2013.339
Abstract
Let G = (A union B, E) be a bipartite graph, where every vertex ranks its neighbors in an order of preference (with ties allowed) and let r be the worst rank used. A matching M is fair in G if it has maximum cardinality, subject to this, M matches the minimum number of vertices to rank r neighbors, subject to that, M matches the minimum number of vertices to rank (r-1) neighbors, and so on. We show an efficient combinatorial algorithm based on LP duality to compute a fair matching in G. We also show a scaling based algorithm for the fair b-matching problem. Our two algorithms can be extended to solve other profile-based matching problems. In designing our combinatorial algorithm, we show how to solve a generalized version of the minimum weighted vertex cover problem in bipartite graphs, using a single-source shortest paths computation---this can be of independent interest.
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- Matching with Preferences
- Fairness and Rank-Maximality
- Bipartite Vertex Cover
- Linear Programming Duality
- Complementary Slackness
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