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Gilles Simonin

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On the Complexity of Robust Stable Marriage

Robust Stable Marriage (RSM) is a variant of the classical Stable Marriage problem, where the robustness of a given stable matching is measured by the number of modifications required for repairing it in case an unforeseen event occurs. We focus on the complexity of finding an (a,b)-supermatch. An (a,b)-supermatch is defined as a stable matching in which if any 'a' (non-fixed) men/women break up it is possible to find another stable matching by changing the partners of those 'a' men/women and also the partners of at most 'b' other couples. In order to show deciding if there exists an (a,b)-supermatch is NP-Complete, we first introduce a SAT formulation that is NP-Complete by using Schaefer's Dichotomy Theorem. Then, we show the equivalence between the SAT formulation and finding a (1,1)-supermatch on a specific family of instances.

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Finding Robust Solutions to Stable Marriage

We study the notion of robustness in stable matching problems. We first define robustness by introducing (a,b)-supermatches. An $(a,b)$-supermatch is a stable matching in which if $a$ pairs break up it is possible to find another stable matching by changing the partners of those $a$ pairs and at most $b$ other pairs. In this context, we define the most robust stable matching as a $(1,b)$-supermatch where b is minimum. We show that checking whether a given stable matching is a $(1,b)$-supermatch can be done in polynomial time. Next, we use this procedure to design a constraint programming model, a local search approach, and a genetic algorithm to find the most robust stable matching. Our empirical evaluation on large instances show that local search outperforms the other approaches.

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Bounds and approximation results for scheduling coupled-tasks with compatibility constraints

This article is devoted to propose some lower and upper bounds for the coupled-tasks scheduling problem in presence of compatibility constraints according to classical complexity hypothesis ($\mathcal{P} \neq \mathcal{NP}$, $\mathcal{ETH}$). Moreover, we develop an efficient polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the specific case for which the topology describing the compatibility constraints is a quasi split-graph.

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Isomorphic coupled-task scheduling problem with compatibility constraints on a single processor

The problem presented in this paper is a generalization of the usual coupled-tasks scheduling problem in presence of compatibility constraints. The reason behind this study is the data acquisition problem for a submarine torpedo. We investigate a particular configuration for coupled tasks (any task is divided into two sub-tasks separated by an idle time), in which the idle time of a coupled task is equal to the sum of durations of its two sub-tasks. We prove -completeness of the minimization of the schedule length, we show that finding a solution to our problem amounts to solving a graph problem, which in itself is close to the minimum-disjoint-path cover (min-DCP) problem. We design a (3a+2b)/(2a+2b)-approximation, where a and b (the processing time of the two sub-tasks) are two input data such as a>b>0, and that leads to a ratio between 3/2 and 5/4. Using a polynomial-time algorithm developed for some class of graph of min-DCP, we show that the ratio decreases to 1.37 .

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Some complexity and approximation results for coupled-tasks scheduling problem according to topology

We consider the makespan minimization coupled-tasks problem in presence of compatibility constraints with a specified topology. In particular, we focus on stretched coupled-tasks, i.e. coupled-tasks having the same sub-tasks execution time and idle time duration. We study several problems in framework of classic complexity and approximation for which the compatibility graph is bipartite (star, chain,. . .). In such a context, we design some efficient polynomial-time approximation algorithms for an intractable scheduling problem according to some parameters.

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