MATCH-UP 2024 is the 7th workshop in an interdisciplinary and international workshops in the series on matching under preferences. It will take place on 9 - 11 September 2024, hosted by the University of Oxford, United Kingdom.

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

Tommy Andersson (Lund University)

Kavitha Telikepalli (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Submission Guidelines

We call for two types of contributions. Authors should indicate which format type their paper should be considered under.

Format A

• Original contribution, not previously published in (or accepted by) another conference proceedings or journal
• Not under review for a conference or journal elsewhere

Format B

• Not necessarily original work
• Could have been published already in (or accepted by) another conference proceedings or journal
• Can be under review for a conference or journal elsewhere

The Programme Committee may give priority to Format A papers in the final selection.

Submissions should be at most 18 pages long (excluding bibliography), formatted for A4 paper, using 11 point font or larger with at least 1" margins all round, and in single-column format. Submissions in EC or SAGT formats are very welcome. Any material beyond this limit should be placed in a clearly marked appendix which will be read at the discretion of the programme committee. There is no specified style file for submissions (e.g., LNCS or ACM style files are fine).

Please indicate in the Keywords whether your paper is Format A or Format B.

Only abstracts of accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. This should allow the simultaneous or subsequent submission of contributed papers to other workshops, conferences or journals. If authors so choose, they may include a link to the full version of their paper (if published, e.g., on arXiv, REpeC, SSRN or on a personal web page) in the proceedings.

List of Topics

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

• Two-sided matchings involving agents on both sides (e.g., college admissions, medical resident allocation, job markets, and school choice)
• Two-sided matchings involving agents and objects (e.g., house allocation, course allocation, project allocation, assigning papers to reviewers, and school choice)
• One-sided matchings (e.g., roommate problems, coalition formation games, and kidney exchange)
• Multi-dimensional matchings (e.g., 3D stable matching problems)
• Matching with payments (e.g., assignment game)
• Online and stochastic matching models (e.g., Google Ads, ride sharing, Match.com)
• Other recent applications (e.g., refugee resettlement, food banks, social housing, and daycare)

Committees

Program Committee

• Kristóf Bérczi
• Günnur Ege Bilgin
• Péter Biró
• Inacio Bo
• Niclas Boehmer
• Martin Bullinger
• Katarína Cechlárová
• Christine Cheng
• Jiehua Chen
• Julien Combe
• David Delacretaz
• Batal Dogan
• Umut Dur
• Albin Erlanson
• Tamas Fleiner
• Aram Grigoryan
• Jens Gudmundsson
• Guillaume Haeringer
• Isa Hafalir
• Eun Jeong Heo
• Chien-Chung Huang
• Naoyuki Kamiyama
• Tamas Király
• Flip Klijn
• Dusan Knop
• Scott Kominers
• Jiunjie Luo
• David Manlove
• Jannik Matuschke
• Andrew McKenzie
• Antonio Miralles
• Shuichi Miyazaki
• Markus Möller
• Thayer Morrill
• Alexandru Nichifor
• Josue Ortega
• Katarzyna Paluch
• Daniel Paulusma
• William Phan
• Rasoul Ramenazian
• Baharak Rastegari
• Antonio Romero-Medina
• Ricardo Saulle
• Ildikó Schlotter (CS PC Chair)
• Jay Sethuraman
• Ran Shorrer
• Alex Teytelboym
• Alexander Westkamp (Econ PC Chair)
• M. Bumin Yenmez
• Yu Yokoi
• Yu Zhou

Organizing committee

• Ildi Schlotter, (Programme Committee Co-Chair)
• Alexander Westkamp, (Programme Committee Co-Chair)
• Sofiat Olaosebikan, University of Glasgow, UK (Organizing Committee Co-Chair)
• Alex Teytelboym, University of Oxford, UK (Organizing Committee Co-Chair and Local Organizer)

Venue

The conference will be held at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to matchup2024@gmail.com

Sponsors

This workshop will be partly supported by the European Research Council.