The stable fixtures problem-A many-to-many extension of stable roommates

  • Authors:
  • Robert W. Irving;Sandy Scott

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland;Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We study a many-to-many generalisation of the well-known stable roommates problem in which each participant seeks to be matched with a number of others. We present a linear-time algorithm that determines whether a stable matching exists, and if so, returns one such matching.