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1 Proposal matcher implementation
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3 By Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net>
4 in collaboration with Samir Khuller <samir@cs.umd.edu>
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6TODO: There is probably more to say here about the program, even after we add
7the paper about the algorithm/reduction.
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9Setup
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12Requirements:
13- GHC on your $PATH
14- GHC "fgl" package
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16Compile with "make".
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18Interactive experimentation
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21"./run" starts GHCi with all of the important definitions of the proposal
22matcher in scope. This is good for interactive experimentation.
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24Batch front-end
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27./match is a front-end that reads an instance from stdin and prints the matching
28to stdout.
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31Input: A tab-separated array with one column per reviewer. The first row gives
32the relative loads of the reviewers. Thereafter, each row gives the preference
33values (1 to 39, 40 = conflict of interest) of all reviewers for a single
34proposal. See the example.in.
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36Reviewers and proposals are numbered from 0 in the order they appear in the
37input.
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39Output: A tab-separated array. Each row gives the reviewer number and proposal
40number of a matched pair.