Skip to main content

HOW TO CONDUCT MODERN SWAYAMVARA

    


     The 'swayamvara' is still conducted by some cultures in India.  In this event, the bride and groom choose their life partner by themselves on the spot.  We can modify this event using the 'Algorithm' and conduct it successfully according to modern needs.

Description of Algorithm:
1. We select 100 prospective brides and 100 grooms.  An equal number is a must.
2. We send all the info. about 100 girls to each boy.  We also send info. about all the boys to each girl.
3. We ask each girl and boy to rank his or her candidates according to their preference (from best to worst).
4. We mark a day; invite people and assemble all the 200 future husbands and wives there.  It is a large empty hall, separated into halves by a tied long rope.  One side boys and the other side girls.  Now, the stage is set.
5. Men are always proposers and women are acceptors.  We ask all the gentlemen to go to the women's side and propose to their best choice or top rankers in their list.
6. What will happen?  Most men may crowd around a particular girl and propose.  A few men will scatter and go to some other girls.  Some girls may accept the proposals according to their ranks.  Some men may get rejected,  Those men whose proposals are accepted are said to be provisionally engaged. And they are eliminated from the session.  That is the first round.
7. All the men who are not engaged are allowed to propose in the next round to their next choices.  But all the 100 girls will be there.  If the girls get a better choice than the current partner, they can 'trade it off'.  That is, they can reject the current partner and engage the new proposer.  The rejected men can once again join the session.
8.  The above process is repeated again and again (round after round) until all are engaged.

    The algorithm guarantees that 'everyone gets married'.  The marriages are stable and cheating is not possible.
    This procedure is called the Gale-shapely algorithm and also known as the 'deferred acceptance algorithm'.  This algorithm can also be used for selecting room-mates, colleges, hospitals, etc.
    This is the scientific -way to conduct 'match-making event' -"Swayamvara".

Comments

  1. Narayanan27 July 2020 at 06:14

    Rejections may affect the confidence of the people participating and too many proposals might increase the personal ego from person to person. Too pro-modern for an Indian setup but complete online methodology might work instead of a f2f setup. The algorithm might apply for non personal models like room allotments or room-mates but human emotions might get affected in the process and may cause chaos. Nice thinking

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

THE EARTH, A SUPER ORGANISM

     JOIN MY COURSE: "Become a programmer in a day with python"       A man called 'love lock' (what a name) proposed a theory called Gaia theory, named after Greek Goddess.      It says, "Earth is a self-regulating organism like a human being.  The organic life in it interacts with in-organic matter and maintains atmosphere, temperature and environment".  Hence the earth is still suitable for the life to thrive.      Imagine, in a particular place, there are lot of flowers.  Some flowers are white and some are darkly coloured.  We know, white reflects light and heat while dark absorbs the same.  White flowers can thrive in hot climate.  But dark flowers requires cold climate.  The absorption and reflection balances and the environment reaches average, warm temperature at which both the flowers can co-exist.  This is the essence of "Gaia" theory.      On our earth, the oxygen constitute 20% of the atmosphere.  The oxygen level is always mai
3 comments
Read more

THE PARABOLA

          A jet of water shooting from a hose pipe will follow a parabolic path.  What is the so special about parabola.    Y= x^2 Draw a graph for the above equation.  It will result in a parabola.  This parabola is also called unit parabola.  Any equation involving square will yield a parabola. Example:  Y = 2x^2 +3x+3 (also called quadratic equation)    X= 2 and -2, both  satisfies the equation 4 = X^2.  Parabolic equations always have two solutions.     Any motion taking place freely under gravity follows parabolic path. Examples:   An object dropped from a moving train,   A bomb dropped from flying plane,  A ball kicked upwards.      If a beam of light rays fall on the parabolic shaped mirror, they will be reflected and brought to focus on a point.  This fact is made use of in Dish Antenna, Telescope mirrors, etc.      Inverted parabola shape is used in the construction of buildings and bridges.  Because the shape is able to bear more weight.      A plane
Post a Comment
Read more

DISORDER IS THE "ORDER OF THE DAY"

         Imagine a balloon full of air.  The air molecules are moving randomly inside the balloon.  Let us pierce the balloon with a pin.  The air rushes out.  Why should not the air molecules stay inside the balloon safely and ignore the little hole?  That is not the way the world works.  The molecules always "want to occupy as many states as possible".  Hence the air goes out in the open to occupy more volume.   The things always goes into disorder (entropy) and the disorder increases with time.  The above statement is what we call "second law of thermodynamics".      Consider a cup of coffee on the table. Suppose the heat from entire room flows to your cup of coffee, the coffee will boil and the rest of the room will freeze.  Freezing means bringing things to order and arrangement.  It violates the second law.  Hence it will never happen.  Hence heat must flow from high temperature to low temperature and not the other way.        The air molecules in y
Post a Comment
Read more