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Pareto optimal matchings in many-to-many markets with ties

Pareto optimal matchings in many-to-many markets with ties
Pareto optimal matchings in many-to-many markets with ties
We consider Pareto-optimal matchings (POMs) in a many-to-many market of applicants and courses where applicants have preferences, which may include ties, over individual courses and lexicographic preferences over sets of courses. Since this is the most general setting examined so far in the literature, our work unifies and generalizes several known results. Specifically, we characterize POMs and introduce the Generalized Serial Dictatorship Mechanism with Ties (GSDT) that effectively handles ties via properties of network flows. We show that GSDT can generate all POMs using different priority orderings over the applicants, but it satisfies truthfulness only for certain such orderings. This shortcoming is not specific to our mechanism; we show that any mechanism generating all POMs in our setting is prone to strategic manipulation. This is in contrast to the one-to-one case (with or without ties), for which truthful mechanisms generating all POMs do exist.
0302-9743
27-39
Springer
Cechlárová, Katarína
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Eirinakis, Pavlos
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Fleiner, Tamás
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Magos, Dimitrios
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Manlove, David F.
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Mourtos, Ioannis
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Oceľáková, Eva
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Rastegari, Baharak
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Hoefer, M.
Cechlárová, Katarína
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Eirinakis, Pavlos
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Fleiner, Tamás
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Magos, Dimitrios
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Manlove, David F.
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Mourtos, Ioannis
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Oceľáková, Eva
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Rastegari, Baharak
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Hoefer, M.

Cechlárová, Katarína, Eirinakis, Pavlos, Fleiner, Tamás, Magos, Dimitrios, Manlove, David F., Mourtos, Ioannis, Oceľáková, Eva and Rastegari, Baharak (2015) Pareto optimal matchings in many-to-many markets with ties. In, Hoefer, M. (ed.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. (Algorithmic Game Theory, 9347) Berlin; Heidelberg. Springer, pp. 27-39. (doi:10.1007/978-3-662-48433-3_3).

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Abstract

We consider Pareto-optimal matchings (POMs) in a many-to-many market of applicants and courses where applicants have preferences, which may include ties, over individual courses and lexicographic preferences over sets of courses. Since this is the most general setting examined so far in the literature, our work unifies and generalizes several known results. Specifically, we characterize POMs and introduce the Generalized Serial Dictatorship Mechanism with Ties (GSDT) that effectively handles ties via properties of network flows. We show that GSDT can generate all POMs using different priority orderings over the applicants, but it satisfies truthfulness only for certain such orderings. This shortcoming is not specific to our mechanism; we show that any mechanism generating all POMs in our setting is prone to strategic manipulation. This is in contrast to the one-to-one case (with or without ties), for which truthful mechanisms generating all POMs do exist.

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Published date: 10 December 2015

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Local EPrints ID: 426211
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/426211
ISSN: 0302-9743
PURE UUID: c3df6145-0c0d-4ddf-aa7f-36aed51eba48
ORCID for Baharak Rastegari: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-0985-573X

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Date deposited: 19 Nov 2018 17:30
Last modified: 16 Mar 2024 04:39

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Author: Katarína Cechlárová
Author: Pavlos Eirinakis
Author: Tamás Fleiner
Author: Dimitrios Magos
Author: David F. Manlove
Author: Ioannis Mourtos
Author: Eva Oceľáková
Author: Baharak Rastegari ORCID iD
Editor: M. Hoefer

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