We consider the following stochastic optimization problem first introduced by Chen et al. in [7]. We are given a vertex set of a random graph where each possible edge is present with probability p e . We do not know which edges are actually present unless we scan/probe an edge. However whenever we probe an edge and find it to be present, we are constrained to picking the edge and both its end points are deleted from the graph. We wish to find the maximum matching in this model. We compare our results against the optimal omniscient algorithm that knows the edges of the graph and present a 0.573 factor algorithm using a novel sampling technique. We also prove that no algorithm can attain a factor better than 0.898 in this model. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
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Costello, K. P., Tetali, P., & Tripathi, P. (2012). Stochastic matching with commitment. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 7391 LNCS, pp. 822–833). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31594-7_69
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