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SIGACT
2008
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On-line bipartite matching made simple
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 thi...
Benjamin E. Birnbaum, Claire Mathieu
FOCS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
AdWords and Generalized On-line Matching
How does a search engine company decide what ads to display with each query so as to maximize its revenue? This turns out to be a generalization of the online bipartite matching p...
Aranyak Mehta, Amin Saberi, Umesh V. Vazirani, Vij...
ICALP
2007
Springer
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Commitment Under Uncertainty: Two-Stage Stochastic Matching Problems
Abstract. We define and study two versions of the bipartite matching problem in the framework of two-stage stochastic optimization with recourse. In one version the uncertainty is...
Irit Katriel, Claire Kenyon-Mathieu, Eli Upfal