The Development of Marriage Matching System Applying the Theory of Optimal Stopping Problem

Abstract

Although various type of wedding partner matching services including online matching sites have been provided for single men and women, some of them recommend the matching partner to their customers based on matchmakers’ experience that might produce the prejudiced matching results. As a result, the success rate of those matching service are very low and a lot of customers are frequently asked to meet another newly recommended partners, which causes customers’monetary and mental dissatisfaction. We have developed an effective and scientific marriage matching system applying AHP method and the theory of optimal stopping problem (in short, OSP). Our new system calculates the partner seeker’s each score of preference for various attributes, sorts the partner candidates according to the calculated score, and recommends the most partner candidates who are listed above the optimal recommendation threshold given by OSP.