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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.35
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-90398
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2018/9039/
Chen, Jiehua ;
Hermelin, Danny ;
Sorge, Manuel ;
Yedidsion, Harel
How Hard Is It to Satisfy (Almost) All Roommates?
Abstract
The classic Stable Roommates problem (the non-bipartite generalization of the well-known Stable Marriage problem) asks whether there is a stable matching for a given set of agents, i.e. a partitioning of the agents into disjoint pairs such that no two agents induce a blocking pair. Herein, each agent has a preference list denoting who it prefers to have as a partner, and two agents are blocking if they prefer to be with each other rather than with their assigned partners.
Since stable matchings may not be unique, we study an NP-hard optimization variant of Stable Roommates, called Egal Stable Roommates, which seeks to find a stable matching with a minimum egalitarian cost gamma, i.e. the sum of the dissatisfaction of the agents is minimum. The dissatisfaction of an agent is the number of agents that this agent prefers over its partner if it is matched; otherwise it is the length of its preference list. We also study almost stable matchings, called Min-Block-Pair Stable Roommates, which seeks to find a matching with a minimum number beta of blocking pairs. Our main result is that Egal Stable Roommates parameterized by gamma is fixed-parameter tractable, while Min-Block-Pair Stable Roommates parameterized by beta is W[1]-hard, even if the length of each preference list is at most five.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs:2018:9039,
author = {Jiehua Chen and Danny Hermelin and Manuel Sorge and Harel Yedidsion},
title = {{How Hard Is It to Satisfy (Almost) All Roommatesl}},
booktitle = {45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018)},
pages = {35:1--35:15},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-076-7},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2018},
volume = {107},
editor = {Ioannis Chatzigiannakis and Christos Kaklamanis and D{\'a}niel Marx and Donald Sannella},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl--Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/9039},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-90398},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2018.35},
annote = {Keywords: NP-hard problems Data reduction rules Kernelizations Parameterized complexity analysis and algorithmics}
}
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NP-hard problems Data reduction rules Kernelizations Parameterized complexity analysis and algorithmics |
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45th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2018) |
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2018 |
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04.07.2018 |
