Matchings, Critical Nodes, and Popular Solutions
Matchings, Critical Nodes, and Popular Solutions
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匹配、关键节点和流行解决方案
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2021
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T. Kavitha
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作者:
T. Kavitha
We consider a matching problem in a marriage instance G . Every node has a strict preference order ranking its neighbors. There is a set C of prioritized or critical nodes and we are interested in only those matchings that match as many critical nodes as possible. Such matchings are useful in several applications and we call them critical matchings . A stable matching need not be critical. We consider a well-studied relaxation of stability called popularity . Our goal is to find a popular critical matching, i.e., a weak Condorcet winner within the set of critical matchings where nodes are voters. We show that popular critical matchings always exist in G and min-size/max-size such matchings can be efficiently computed.