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Announcement: Special Issue on Matching Models at QUESTA

  • 1.  Announcement: Special Issue on Matching Models at QUESTA

    Posted 01-17-2020 16:43

    Call for Papers

    Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications is seeking submissions to a forthcoming Special Issue on Stochastic Matching Models, Matching Queues and Applications

    Background 
    An economy of interactions and compatibilities. 
    In the current boom of online services, internationally leading companies promote applications that offer their users an interface to interact and collaborate. We can think of the users as members gathered in classes, which use the application as an interface to find a match. To name a few, let us mention Uber apps, food delivery dispatching, online dating, collaborative apps, car and ride sharing, job search apps, etc. Matching mechanisms are also useful in many other physical systems, subject to compatibility constraints. At the utmost interest are blood transfusions and organ transplant networks, for which the blood types and immunological factors determine the compatibility. 

    Stochastic matching on graphs. All the aforementioned applications have a clear common ground: the arrivals of requests are random, and their sojourn in the system are finalized to finding a match (a date for next Saturday, a compatible kidney, a qualified cook for next evening, etc.), that is identified as such according to fixed compatibility rules. In all cases, the system controller aims at optimizing the waiting time of the requests before finding a match Depending on the application, one may also need to control the traffic to avoid congestion, or to design a pricing algorithm, and so on. 

    Scope 
    This special issue solicits papers that may contribute to advance the state-of-art in such stochastic matching model on graphs, and more generally, to the study of queueing systems with matching mechanisms. We welcome contributions from both the theoretical study of such systems: analysis of the geometry and structural properties of the underlying matching graphs, exact or approximate analysis of the underlying stochastic processes; and more practical aspects: optimization procedures, analysis of allocation algorithms, and so on. 

    Submission Process 
    We request that manuscripts be submitted through the Queueing Systems web portal (link below). Please choose 'S.I.: Matching queues' to ensure that the manuscripts are directed toward the guest editors for handling the review process. 

    Submission Portal
    https://www.editorialmanager.com/ques/

    Guest Editors: 
    Jean Mairesse,
     CNRS and Université Pierre et Marie Curie
    Pascal Moyal, Université de Lorraine

    Important Dates: 
    Submission deadline: March 1, 2019 
    Reviews and Author Notification: June 15, 2020 
    Final Revision and Camera-ready version: October 15, 2020 
    Publication: December 2020.



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    Jefferson Huang
    Assistant Professor
    Naval Postgraduate School
    Monterey CA
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