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MATCH-UP is a series of interdisciplinary and international workshops on matching under preferences. The remit of these workshops is to explore matching problems with preferences from the perspective of algorithms and complexity discrete mathematics, combinatorial optimization, game theory mechanism design and economics.

Important Dates

Sun, Feb 15, 2026
Submission deadline
Wed, Apr 15, 2026
Notification date

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

Two-sided matchings involving agents on both sides (e.g., college admissions, medical resident allocation, job markets, and school choice)
Two-sided matchings involving agents and objects (e.g., house allocation, course allocation, project allocation, assigning papers to reviewers, and school choice)
One-sided matchings (e.g., roommate problems, coalition formation games, and kidney exchange)
Multi-dimensional matchings (e.g., 3D stable matching problems)
Matching with payments (e.g., assignment game)
Online and stochastic matching models (e.g., Google Ads, ride sharing, Match.com)
Other recent applications (e.g., refugee resettlement, food banks, social housing, and daycare)

Call for Papers Description

We call for two types of contributions. Authors should indicate in the Keywords which format type their paper should be considered under. Format A: Original contribution, not previously published. Format B: Not necessarily original work, could have been published elsewhere.

Committee

Organizing Committee

Julien Combe

Organizing Committee Co-Chair and Local Organizer

CREST, Ecole polytechnique

Alfred Galichon

Organizing Committee Co-Chair and Local Organizer

NYU Paris

Patrick Loiseau

Organizing Committee Co-Chair

INRIA

Vianney Perchet

Organizing Committee Co-Chair

CREST, ENSAE Paris

Flore Sentenac

Organizing Committee Co-Chair

HEC Paris

Olivier Tercieux

Organizing Committee Co-Chair

CNRS, Paris School of Economics

Steering Committee

Péter Biró

Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary

Jiehua Chen

TU Vienna, Austria

Bettina Klaus

University of Lausanne, Switzerland

David Manlove

University of Glasgow, UK

Program Committee