The secret santa problem.
Liberti, Leo and Raimondi, Franco 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9508-7713
(2008)
The secret santa problem.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5034
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pp. 271-279.
ISSN 0302-9743
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(doi:10.1007/978-3-540-68880-8_26)
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Abstract
Consider a digraph where the vertices represent people and
an arc (i, j) represents the possibility of i giving a gift to j. The basic question we pose is whether there is an anonymity-preserving “gift assignment” such that each person makes and receives exactly one gift, and such that no person i can infer the remaining gift assignments from the fact that i is assigned to give a gift to j. We formalize this problem as a graph property involving vertex disjoint circuit covers, give a polynomial algorithm to decide this property for any given graph and provide a computational validation of the algorithm.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence group A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > Foundations of Computing group A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > Intelligent Environments group A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > SensoLab group |
| ISI Impact: | 0 |
| Item ID: | 5279 |
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| Depositing User: | Franco Raimondi |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Apr 2010 16:17 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Jun 2022 07:33 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/5279 |
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