Improved analysis of the greedy algorithm for stochastic matching

M Adamczyk - Information Processing Letters, 2011 - Elsevier
The stochastic matching problem with applications in online dating and kidney exchange
was introduced by Chen et al.(2009)[1] together with a simple greedy strategy. They proved
it is a 4-approximation, but conjectured that the greedy algorithm is in fact a 2-approximation.
In this paper we confirm this hypothesis.