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 …

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 …

Bifurcating constraints to improve approximation ratios for network revenue management with reusable resources

J Baek, W Ma - Operations Research, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
Network revenue management (NRM) describes a general online allocation problem in
which combinations of capacity-constrained resources are sold to a stream of arriving …

Adwords with unknown budgets and beyond

R Udwani - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
In the classic Adwords problem introduced by [Mehta A, Saberi A, Vazirani U, Vazirani V
(2007) Adwords and generalized online matching. J. ACM 54 (5): 22-es.], we have a …

Dynamic pricing for reusable resources: The power of two prices

SR Balseiro, W Ma, W Zhang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2308.13822, 2023 - arxiv.org
Motivated by real-world applications such as rental and cloud computing services, we
investigate pricing for reusable resources. We consider a system where a single resource …

Markovian search with socially aware constraints

MR Aminian, V Manshadi, R Niazadeh - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.13346, 2025 - arxiv.org
We study a general class of sequential search problems for selecting multiple candidates
from different societal groups under" ex-ante constraints" aimed at producing socially …

Fast and efficient matching algorithm with deadline instances

Z Song, W Wang, C Yin, J Yin - arxiv preprint arxiv:2305.08353, 2023 - arxiv.org
The online weighted matching problem is a fundamental problem in machine learning due
to its numerous applications. Despite many efforts in this area, existing algorithms are either …

Leveraging reusability: Improved competitive ratio of greedy for reusable resources

J Baek, S Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2304.03377, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study online weighted bipartite matching of reusable resources where an adversarial
sequence of requests for resources arrive over time. A resource that is matched is' used'for a …

Online matching with cancellation costs

F Ekbatani, Y Feng, R Niazadeh - arxiv preprint arxiv:2210.11570, 2022 - arxiv.org
Motivated by applications in cloud computing spot markets and selling banner ads on
popular websites, we study the online resource allocation problem with overbooking and …

Lossless Online Rounding for Online Bipartite Matching (Despite its Impossibility)

N Buchbinder, J Naor, D Wajc - Proceedings of the 2023 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2023 - SIAM
For numerous online bipartite matching problems, such as edge-weighted matching and
matching under two-sided vertex arrivals, the state-of-the-art fractional algorithms outperform …