A Fair Assignment Algorithm for Multiple Preference Queries

• Main Authors: U, Leong Hou, Mamoulis, Nikos, Mouratidis, Kyriakos
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
• Subjects: Internship assignment; multiple simultaneous requests; database management; algorithms; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/873; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/1872/viewcontent/VLDB09_20__20Preference_20Assignment.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Consider an internship assignment system, where at the end of each academic year, interested university students search and apply for available positions, based on their preferences (e.g., nature of the job, salary, office location, etc). In a variety of facility, task or position assignment context...