MATCH-UP 2024

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.

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)

NOTE: The 17th International Symposium on Algorithmic Game Theory (SAGT) will take place just before MATCH-UP at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 3–6, 2024.

We call for two types of contributions. Authors should indicate in the Keywords 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.

Submit your paper

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.

Proceedings

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.

Paper submission portal: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=matchup2024 .

Important dates

Paper submission deadline: ~~01 May 2024~~ (extended to 08 May 2024 23:59 AoE)
Notification: 01 July 2024
Early registration deadline: 15 July 2024
Workshop: 09 – 11 September 2024

Program

TBC

Logistics

The workshop will be held at St. Catherine's College, University of Oxford . There will be accommodation on site which will be offered with the registration. Oxford is easy to reach (~1h) by train from London Paddington or London Marylebone and by coach from London Heathrow airport. There are also buses from London Gatwick and London Stansted airports.

Registration

The early registration deadline will be 15 July. Participants will be able to register until 15 August. More information TBC

Invited Speakers

Tommy Andersson (Lund University)

Kavitha Telikepalli (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

Organising 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)

Steering Committee

Péter Biró, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary
Brian Dean, Clemson University, USA
Bettina Klaus, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
David Manlove, University of Glasgow, UK

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