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 …

Allocation problems in ride-sharing platforms: Online matching with offline reusable resources

JP Dickerson, KA Sankararaman… - ACM Transactions on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Bipartite-matching markets pair agents on one side of a market with agents, items, or
contracts on the opposing side. Prior work addresses online bipartite-matching markets …

Prophet inequalities for iid random variables from an unknown distribution

J Correa, P Dütting, F Fischer, K Schewior - Proceedings of the 2019 …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
A central object in optimal stopping theory is the single-choice prophet inequality for
independent, identically distributed random variables: given a sequence of random …

Tight Guarantees for Multi-unit Prophet Inequalities and Online Stochastic Knapsack∗

J Jiang, W Ma, J Zhang - Proceedings of the 2022 Annual ACM-SIAM …, 2022 - SIAM
Prophet inequalities are a useful tool for designing online allocation procedures and
comparing their performance to the optimal offline allocation. In the basic setting of k-unit …

Online policies for efficient volunteer crowdsourcing

V Manshadi, S Rodilitz - Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Nonprofit crowdsourcing platforms such as food recovery organizations rely on volunteers to
perform time-sensitive tasks. Thus, their success crucially depends on efficient volunteer …

Near-optimal bayesian online assortment of reusable resources

Y Feng, R Niazadeh, A Saberi - … of the 23rd ACM Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Motivated by the applications of rental services in e-commerce, we consider revenue
maximization in online assortment of reusable resources for a stream of arriving consumers …

Online assortment optimization with reusable resources

XY Gong, V Goyal, GN Iyengar… - Management …, 2022 - pubsonline.informs.org
We consider an online assortment optimization problem where we have n substitutable
products with fixed reusable capacities c 1,…, cn. In each period t, a user with some …

Asymptotically optimal competitive ratio for online allocation of reusable resources

V Goyal, G Iyengar, R Udwani - arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.02430, 2020 - arxiv.org
We consider the problem of online allocation (matching, budgeted allocations, and
assortments) of reusable resources where an adversarial sequence of resource requests is …

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 …

Batching and Optimal Multistage Bipartite Allocations

Y Feng, R Niazadeh - Management Science, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
In several applications of real-time matching of demand to supply in online marketplaces,
the platform allows for some latency to batch the demand and improve the efficiency of the …