TY - GEN
T1 - The price of matching with metric preferences
AU - Emek, Yuval
AU - Langner, Tobias
AU - Wattenhofer, Roger
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - We consider a version of the Gale-Shapley stable matching setting, where each pair of nodes is associated with a (symmetric) matching cost and the preferences are determined with respect to these costs. This stable matching version is analyzed through the Price of Anarchy (PoA) and Price of Stability (PoS) lens under the objective of minimizing the total cost of matched nodes (for both the marriage and roommates variants). A simple example demonstrates that in the general case, the PoA and PoS are unbounded, hence we restrict our attention to metric costs. We use the notion of α-stability, where a pair of unmatched nodes defect only if both improve their costs by a factor greater than α ≥ 1. Our main result is an asymptotically tight trade-off, showing that with respect to α-stable matchings, the Price of Stability is [Formula presented]. The proof is constructive: we present a simple algorithm that outputs an α-stable matching satisfying this bound.
AB - We consider a version of the Gale-Shapley stable matching setting, where each pair of nodes is associated with a (symmetric) matching cost and the preferences are determined with respect to these costs. This stable matching version is analyzed through the Price of Anarchy (PoA) and Price of Stability (PoS) lens under the objective of minimizing the total cost of matched nodes (for both the marriage and roommates variants). A simple example demonstrates that in the general case, the PoA and PoS are unbounded, hence we restrict our attention to metric costs. We use the notion of α-stability, where a pair of unmatched nodes defect only if both improve their costs by a factor greater than α ≥ 1. Our main result is an asymptotically tight trade-off, showing that with respect to α-stable matchings, the Price of Stability is [Formula presented]. The proof is constructive: we present a simple algorithm that outputs an α-stable matching satisfying this bound.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-48350-3_39
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-48350-3_39
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AN - SCOPUS:84945558758
SN - 9783662483497
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 459
EP - 470
BT - Algorithms – ESA 2015 - 23rd Annual European Symposium, Proceedings
A2 - Bansal, Nikhil
A2 - Finocchi, Irene
T2 - 23rd European Symposium on Algorithms, ESA 2015
Y2 - 14 September 2015 through 16 September 2015
ER -