Title
Pareto optimality in many-to-many matching problems.
Abstract
Consider a many-to-many matching market that involves two finite disjoint sets, a set A of applicants and a set C of courses. Each applicant has preferences on the different sets of courses she can attend, while each course has a quota of applicants that it can admit. In this paper, we examine Pareto optimal matchings (briefly POM) in the context of such markets, that can also incorporate additional constraints, e.g., each course bearing some cost and each applicant having a limited budget available. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions for a many-to-many matching to be Pareto optimal and show that checking whether a given matching is Pareto optimal can be accomplished in O(∣A∣2⋅∣C∣2) time. Moreover, we provide a generalized version of serial dictatorship, which can be used to obtain any many-to-many POM. We also study some structural questions related to POM. We show that, unlike in the one-to-one case, finding a maximum cardinality POM is NP-hard for many-to-many markets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1016/j.disopt.2014.09.002
Discrete Optimization
Keywords
Field
DocType
91A12,91A06,68Q25
Mathematical optimization,Disjoint sets,Cardinality,Pareto optimal,Many-to-many (data model),Pareto principle,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
C
1572-5286
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
0.75
3
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Katarína Cechlárová122628.02
Pavlos Eirinakis2518.83
Tamás Fleiner324127.45
Dimitrios Magos4193.42
Ioannis Mourtos57213.99
Eva Potpinková6111.83