Matched Dispatching in Randomized Settings

Jostein Lillestøl and Per Erik Manne

No 2023/23, Discussion Papers from Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Business and Management Science

Abstract: This paper examines some problems of matched dispatching in some different random settings. The context of presentation is that of a reality show with a lineup of the participants, and according to some probabilistic selection rule, some participants are pairwise matched to teams while some are excluded. We consider mainly two cases of induced randomness, one based on random ordering of participants, and one based on coin-flipping, and consider both linear and circular lineups. Questions of fairness are discussed, and some alternative schemes are examined.

Keywords: Random order; Matching; Dispatching; Hypergeometric distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C44 C46 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2023-12-11
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