Strategy-proof mechanisms eliminate the possibility for gain from strategic misrepresentation of preferences. If market participants respond optimally, these mechanisms permit the observation of true preferences and a...
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Strategy-proof mechanisms eliminate the possibility for gain from strategic misrepresentation of preferences. If market participants respond optimally, these mechanisms permit the observation of true preferences and avoid the implicit punishment of market participants who do not try to "game the system." Using new data from a flagship application of the matching literature the medical residency match-I study if these potential benefits are fully realized. I present evidence that some students pursue futile attempts at strategic misrepresentation, and I examine the causes and correlates of this behavior. These results inform the assessment of the costs and benefits of strategy-proof mechanisms and demonstrate broad challenges in mechanism design. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
We show that modifications of the Boston school choice mechanism, the student proposing deferred acceptance algorithm and the top trading cycles algorithm where the colleges' priorities are adjusted according to s...
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We show that modifications of the Boston school choice mechanism, the student proposing deferred acceptance algorithm and the top trading cycles algorithm where the colleges' priorities are adjusted according to students' preferences in a "first preferences first" manner generate the same outcome. This outcome coincides with the BM outcome under original priorities. As a result, the question which of the three algorithms is chosen becomes immaterial. (C) 2018 Published by Elsevier B.V.
We examine all dominant strategies for the deferred acceptance algorithm. Under substitutable and quota-filling choice functions, we show how untruthful dominant strategies look like. Our finding leads to the uniquene...
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We examine all dominant strategies for the deferred acceptance algorithm. Under substitutable and quota-filling choice functions, we show how untruthful dominant strategies look like. Our finding leads to the uniqueness of equilibrium outcome despite the possibility of multiple equilibria. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
This paper considers the incentive compatibility in many-to-many two-sided matching problems. We first show that the Blocking Lemma holds for many-to-many matchings under the extended max-min preference criterion and ...
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This paper considers the incentive compatibility in many-to-many two-sided matching problems. We first show that the Blocking Lemma holds for many-to-many matchings under the extended max-min preference criterion and quota-saturability condition. This result extends the Blocking Lemma for one-to-one matching and for many-to-one matching to many-to-many matching problem. It is then shown that the deferredacceptance mechanism is strategy-proof for agents on the proposing side under the extended max-min preference criterion and quota-saturability condition. Neither the Blocking Lemma nor the incentive compatibility can be guaranteed if the preference condition is weaker than Keywords: the extended max-min criterion. (c) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
We study school choice markets where the non-strategy-proof Boston mechanism is used to assign students to schools. Inspired by previous field and experimental evidence, we analyze a type of behavior called priority-d...
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We study school choice markets where the non-strategy-proof Boston mechanism is used to assign students to schools. Inspired by previous field and experimental evidence, we analyze a type of behavior called priority-driven: students have a common ranking over the schools and then give a bonus in their submitted preferences to those schools for which they have high priority. We first prove that under this behavior, there is a unique stable and efficient matching, which is the outcome of the Boston mechanism. Second, we show that the three most prominent mechanisms on school choice (Boston, deferredacceptance, and top trading cycles) coincide when students' submitted preferences are priority-driven. Finally, we run some computational simulations to show that the assumption of priority-driven preferences can be relaxed by introducing an idiosyncratic preference component, and our qualitative results carry over to a more general model of preferences.
In general, heuristic optimization techniques lose some of the optimal solution of the objective function in the optimization process. This paper proposes a concept to retain those variables that might help in acceler...
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In general, heuristic optimization techniques lose some of the optimal solution of the objective function in the optimization process. This paper proposes a concept to retain those variables that might help in accelerating the complete optimization process. The motivation is to derive linkages between variables in a population set that will be used in crossover strategy. This crossover strategy is dependent on a deferred acceptance algorithm (DAA). Also, the property of linkages or interrelation is implemented to derive the relation between variables among dimensions. This paper proposes a linkage based deferredacceptance optimization (LDAO) technique. It is observed that the proposed algorithm has proved its efficacy on the set of unconstrained and constrained objective functions. Also, the proposed algorithm is tested on challenging real world problems (CEC 2011) and the functions present in CEC 2014 competition. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
A recent result of Aharoni Berger and Gorelik (Order 31(1), 35-43, 2014) is a weighted generalization of the well-known theorem of Sands Sauer and Woodrow (Theory Ser. B 33(3), 271-275, 1982) on monochromatic paths. T...
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A recent result of Aharoni Berger and Gorelik (Order 31(1), 35-43, 2014) is a weighted generalization of the well-known theorem of Sands Sauer and Woodrow (Theory Ser. B 33(3), 271-275, 1982) on monochromatic paths. The authors prove the existence of a so called weighted kernel for any pair of weighted posets on the same ground set. In this work, we point out that this result is closely related to the stable marriage theorem of Gale and Shapley (Amer. Math. Monthly 69(1), 9-15, 1962), and we generalize Blair's theorem by showing that weighted kernels form a lattice under a certain natural order. To illustrate the applicability of our approach, we prove further weighted generalizations of the Sands Sauer Woodrow result.
Although minimum quotas are important in many real-world markets, existing strategyproof mechanisms require an unrealistic assumption that all students consider all schools acceptable (and vice-versa). We develop a st...
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(纸本)9781450342391
Although minimum quotas are important in many real-world markets, existing strategyproof mechanisms require an unrealistic assumption that all students consider all schools acceptable (and vice-versa). We develop a strategyproof matching mechanism called Priority-List based deferredacceptance mechanism with Minimum Quotas (PLDA-MQ), which works under more realistic assumptions: (i) a student considers (at least) one particular school, which we call her initial endowment school, acceptable, and vice-versa, and (ii) the initial endowments satisfy all the minimum quotas. We require a matching to respect initial endowments;each student must be assigned to a school that is at least as good as her initial endowment. PLDA-MQ obtains the student-optimal matching within all matchings that respect minimum quotas/initial endowments and satisfies a stability requirement called Priority-List based (PL-) stability.
This thesis focuses on the bipartite matching under stated preferences problem. This is a problem where the International Office of the Vrije Universiteit has to deal with; it has to match VU students with universitie...
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This thesis focuses on the bipartite matching under stated preferences problem. This is a problem where the International Office of the Vrije Universiteit has to deal with; it has to match VU students with universities abroad each year. Employees of the Interna- tional Office match the students by hand with the so-called serial dictatorship algorithm. This is very time-consuming, therefore the algorithm will be automated. Furthermore, the deferred acceptance algorithm and an integer linear programming approach will be implemented on some datasets to see if getting an improved matching is possible.
Although minimum quotas are important in many real-world markets, existing strategyproof mechanisms require an unrealistic assumption that all students consider all schools acceptable (and vice-versa). We develop a st...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781510855083
Although minimum quotas are important in many real-world markets, existing strategyproof mechanisms require an unrealistic assumption that all students consider all schools acceptable (and vice-versa). We develop a strategyproof matching mechanism called Priority-List based deferredacceptance mechanism with Minimum Quotas (PLDA-MQ), which works under more realistic assumptions: (i) a student considers (at least) one particular school, which we call her initial endowment school, acceptable, and vice-versa, and (ii) the initial endowments satisfy all the minimum quotas. We require a matching to respect initial endowments; each student must be assigned to a school that is at least as good as her initial endowment. PLDA-MQ obtains the student-optimal matching within all matchings that respect minimum quotas/initial endowments and satisfies a stability requirement called Priority-List based (PL-) stability.
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