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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2022.31

Maximally Satisfying Lower Quotas in the Hospitals/Residents Problem with Ties

Authors: Hiromichi Goko, Kazuhisa Makino, Shuichi Miyazaki, and Yu Yokoi

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 219, 39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2022)

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Motivated by the serious problem that hospitals in rural areas suffer from a shortage of residents, we study the Hospitals/Residents model in which hospitals are associated with lower quotas and the objective is to satisfy them as much as possible. When preference lists are strict, the number of residents assigned to each hospital is the same in any stable matching because of the well-known rural hospitals theorem; thus there is no room for algorithmic interventions. However, when ties are introduced to preference lists, this will no longer apply because the number of residents may vary over stable matchings. In this paper, we formulate an optimization problem to find a stable matching with the maximum total satisfaction ratio for lower quotas. We first investigate how the total satisfaction ratio varies over choices of stable matchings in four natural scenarios and provide the exact values of these maximum gaps. Subsequently, we propose a strategy-proof approximation algorithm for our problem; in one scenario it solves the problem optimally, and in the other three scenarios, which are NP-hard, it yields a better approximation factor than that of a naive tie-breaking method. Finally, we show inapproximability results for the above-mentioned three NP-hard scenarios.

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Hiromichi Goko, Kazuhisa Makino, Shuichi Miyazaki, and Yu Yokoi. Maximally Satisfying Lower Quotas in the Hospitals/Residents Problem with Ties. In 39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 219, pp. 31:1-31:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{goko_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2022.31,
  author =	{Goko, Hiromichi and Makino, Kazuhisa and Miyazaki, Shuichi and Yokoi, Yu},
  title =	{{Maximally Satisfying Lower Quotas in the Hospitals/Residents Problem with Ties}},
  booktitle =	{39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2022)},
  pages =	{31:1--31:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-222-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{219},
  editor =	{Berenbrink, Petra and Monmege, Benjamin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2022.31},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-158414},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2022.31},
  annote =	{Keywords: Stable matching, Hospitals/Residents problem, Lower quota, NP-hardness, Approximation algorithm, Strategy-proofness}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2022.32

Online Scheduling on Identical Machines with a Metric State Space

Authors: Hiromichi Goko, Akitoshi Kawamura, Yasushi Kawase, Kazuhisa Makino, and Hanna Sumita

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 219, 39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2022)

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This paper introduces an online scheduling problem on m identical machines with a metric state space, which generalizes the classical online scheduling problem on identical machines, the online traveling salesman problem, and the online dial-a-ride problem. Each job is associated with a source state, a destination state, a processing time, and a release time. Each machine can process a job on and after its release time. Before processing a job, a machine needs to change its state to the source state (in a time corresponding to the distance), and after the process of the job, the machine’s state becomes the destination state. While related research deals with a model in which only release times are unknown to the algorithm, this paper focuses on a general model in which destination states and processing times are also unknown. The main result of this paper is to propose a O(log m/log log m)-competitive online algorithm for the problem, which is best possible. A key approach is to divide the difficulty of the problem. To cope with unknown release times, we provide frameworks to produce a min{2ρ+1/2, ρ+2}-competitive algorithm using a ρ-competitive algorithm for a basic case where all jobs are released at time 0. Then, focusing on unknown destination states and processing times, we construct an O(log m/log log m)-competitive algorithm for the basic case. We also provide improved algorithms for some special cases.

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Hiromichi Goko, Akitoshi Kawamura, Yasushi Kawase, Kazuhisa Makino, and Hanna Sumita. Online Scheduling on Identical Machines with a Metric State Space. In 39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2022). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 219, pp. 32:1-32:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2022)

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@InProceedings{goko_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2022.32,
  author =	{Goko, Hiromichi and Kawamura, Akitoshi and Kawase, Yasushi and Makino, Kazuhisa and Sumita, Hanna},
  title =	{{Online Scheduling on Identical Machines with a Metric State Space}},
  booktitle =	{39th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2022)},
  pages =	{32:1--32:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-222-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{219},
  editor =	{Berenbrink, Petra and Monmege, Benjamin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2022.32},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-158421},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2022.32},
  annote =	{Keywords: Online scheduling, Competitive analysis, Online dial-a-ride}
}

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