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Stable matching is one of the oldest problems studied from an algorithmic point of view, whose original version is defined as follows: An instance consists of N men, N women, and each person’s preference list. A preference list is a totally ordered list including all members of the opposite sex depending on his/her preference. For a matching M between men and women, a pair of a man m and a woman w is called a blocking pair if both prefer each other to their current partners. A matching with no blocking pair is called stable.
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Iwama, K. (2006). Stable Matching Problems. In: Asano, T. (eds) Algorithms and Computation. ISAAC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4288. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11940128_1
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