Online matching: A brief survey

Z Huang, ZG Tang, D Wajc - ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Matching, capturing allocation of items to unit-demand buyers, or tasks to workers, or pairs of
collaborators, is a central problem in economics. Indeed, the growing prevalence of …

Online matching and ad allocation

A Mehta - … and Trends® in Theoretical Computer Science, 2013 - nowpublishers.com
Matching is a classic problem with a rich history and a significant impact, both on the theory
of algorithms and in practice. Recently there has been a surge of interest in the online …

Online assortment optimization for two-sided matching platforms

A Aouad, D Saban - Management Science, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Motivated by online labor markets, we consider the online assortment optimization problem
faced by a two-sided matching platform that hosts a set of suppliers waiting to match with a …

Algorithms for online matching, assortment, and pricing with tight weight-dependent competitive ratios

W Ma, D Simchi-Levi - Operations Research, 2020 - pubsonline.informs.org
Motivated by the dynamic assortment offerings and item pricings occurring in e-commerce,
we study a general problem of allocating finite inventories to heterogeneous customers …

Online stochastic matching, poisson arrivals, and the natural linear program

Z Huang, X Shu - Proceedings of the 53rd Annual ACM SIGACT …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
We study the online stochastic matching problem. Consider a bipartite graph with offline
vertices on one side, and with iid online vertices on the other side. The offline vertices and …

Adwords in a panorama

Z Huang, Q Zhang, Y Zhang - 2020 IEEE 61st Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three decades ago, Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani (STOC 1990) defined the online matching
problem and gave an optimal (1-1/e)-competitive (about 0.632) algorithm. Fifteen years later …

A multi-armed bandit approach to online spatial task assignment

UU Hassan, E Curry - 2014 IEEE 11th Intl Conf on Ubiquitous …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spatial crowd sourcing uses workers for performing tasks that require travel to different
locations in the physical world. This paper considers the online spatial task assignment …

Asymptotically optimal competitive ratio for online allocation of reusable resources

V Goyal, G Iyengar, R Udwani - Operations Research, 2025 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider the problem of online allocation (matching, budgeted allocations, and
assortments) of reusable resources for which an adversarial sequence of resource requests …

Online matching with stochastic rewards: Advanced analyses using configuration linear programs

Z Huang, H Jiang, A Shen, J Song, Z Wu… - … Conference on Web and …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Mehta and Panigrahi (2012) proposed Online Matching with Stochastic Rewards,
which generalizes the Online Bipartite Matching problem of Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani …

New algorithms, better bounds, and a novel model for online stochastic matching

B Brubach, KA Sankararaman… - 24th Annual European …, 2016 - drops.dagstuhl.de
Online matching has received significant attention over the last 15 years due to its close
connection to Internet advertising. As the seminal work of Karp, Vazirani, and Vazirani has …