On-line bipartite matching made simple

  • Authors:
  • Benjamin Birnbaum;Claire Mathieu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Washington;Brown University

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGACT News
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We examine the classic on-line bipartite matching problem studied by Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani [8] and provide a simple proof of their result that the Ranking algorithm for this problem achieves a competitive ratio of 1 -- 1/e.