Adapting stable matchings to evolving preferences

Robert Bredereck, Jiehua Chen, Dušan Knop, Junjie Luo, Rolf Niedermeier

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Abstract

Adaptivity to changing environments and constraints is key to success in modern society. We address this by proposing “incrementalized versions” of STABLE MARRIAGE and STABLE ROOMMATES. That is, we try to answer the following question: for both problems, what is the computational cost of adapting an existing stable matching after some of the preferences of the agents have changed. While doing so, we also model the constraint that the new stable matching shall be not too different from the old one. After formalizing these incremental versions, we provide a fairly comprehensive picture of the computational complexity landscape of INCREMENTAL STABLE MARRIAGE and INCREMENTAL STABLE ROOMMATES. To this end, we exploit the parameters “degree of change” both in the input (difference between old and new preference profile) and in the output (difference between old and new stable matching). We obtain both hardness and tractability results, in particular showing a fixed-parameter tractability result with respect to the parameter “distance between old and new stable matching”.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAAAI 2020 - 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
PublisherAAAI press
Pages1830-1837
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781577358350
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2020 - New York, United States
Duration: 7 Feb 202012 Feb 2020

Publication series

NameAAAI 2020 - 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Conference

Conference34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York
Period7/02/2012/02/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence

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