The stable marriage problem consists of matching members of two different sets according to the member’s preferences for the other set’s members. The input for our problem consists of:
a set M of n males;
a set F of n females;
for each male and female we have a list of all the members of the opposite gender in order of preference (from the most preferable to the least).
A marriage is a one-to-one mapping between males and females. A marriage is called stable, if there is no pair (m, f) such that f ∈ F prefers m ∈ M to her current partner and m prefers f over his current partner. The stable marriage A is called male-optimal if there is no other stable marriage B, where any male matches a female he prefers more than the one assigned in A.
Given preferable lists of males and females, you must find the male-optimal stable marriage.