[DMANET] Second call for participation - MATCH-UP 2012: the Second International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences

Second call for participation
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MATCH-UP 2012:
the Second International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences


19-20 July 2012
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
http://econ.core.hu/english/res/MATCH-UP_2012.html

co-located with SING8: The 8th Spain-Italy-Netherlands Meeting
on Game Theory (http://sing8.iehas.hu/)



Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the seminal paper by Gale and Shapley,
and following the success of the first MATCH-UP workshop in Reykjavík in
2008 (http://www.optimalmatching.com/workshop), we are organising another
interdisciplinary workshop on stable matchings and related topics.

Background
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Matching problems with preferences occur in widespread applications such
as the assignment of school-leavers to universities, junior doctors to
hospitals, students to campus housing, children to schools, kidney
transplant patients to donors and so on. The common thread is that
individuals have preference lists over the possible outcomes and the task
is to find a matching of the participants that is in some sense optimal
with respect to these preferences.

The remit of this workshop is to explore matching problems with
preferences from the perspective of algorithms and complexity, discrete
mathematics, combinatorial optimization, game theory, mechanism design
and economics, and thus a key objective is to bring together the research
communities of the related areas.

Invited speakers
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* Nicole Immorlica, Northwestern University
* Rob Irving, University of Glasgow
* Fuhito Kojima, Stanford University (on leave at Columbia University)
* Tayfun Sönmez, Boston College

List of topics
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The matching problems under consideration include, but are not limited to:

* two-sided matchings involving agents on both sides (e.g. college
admissions, resident allocation, job markets, school choice, etc.)
* two-sided matchings involving agents and items (e.g. house allocation,
course allocation, project allocation, assigning papers to reviewers,
school choice, etc.)
* one-sided matchings (roommates problem, kidney exchanges, etc.)
* matching with payments (assignment game, auctions, etc.)

Preliminary programme
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26 contributed papers have been accepted for presentation at MATCH-UP
2012. See http://econ.core.hu/english/res/MATCH-UP_2012_program.html
for the preliminary programme.

Registration
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The registration fee is EUR 300 for non-students and EUR 150 for students.
See http://econ.core.hu/english/res/MATCH-UP_2012_registration.html to
register. The current list of registered participants (61 so far) can be
seen at http://econ.core.hu/english/res/MATCH-UP_2012_participants.html.

Further information
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See http://econ.core.hu/english/res/MATCH-UP_2012.html or email
matchup2012@econ.core.hu.

The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401
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