These data files correspond to the experiments reported in Section 6 of the following paper:

A. Kwanashie, R.W. Irving, D.F. Manlove and C.T.S. Sng, Profile-based optimal matchings in the Student-Project Allocation problem, Technical Report 1403.0751, Computing Research Repository, Cornell University Library, 2015.  Available from http://arxiv.org/abs/1403.0751.

This is the full version of the following paper:

A. Kwanashie, R.W. Irving, D.F. Manlove and C.T.S. Sng, Profile-based optimal matchings in the Student-Project Allocation problem, in Proceedings of IWOCA 2014: the 25th International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms, volume 8986 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 213-225, Springer, 2015

Publisher final version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19315-1_19
Author final version: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/105144

The various subfolders contain the instances, matchings and results summaries for the experiments in Section 6 of the Technical Report.  The subfolder names make it clear which experiments the data correspond to.

Each instance file (apart from those in Section 6.4) is in the following format:

<n_1> <n_2> <n_3>
<n_1> lines containing student preference lists
<n_2> lines containing project information
<n_3> lines containing supervisor information

Each student preference list is of the following format:

<student ID> : <1st-choice project ID> <2nd-choice project ID> etc.

Each line of project information is of the following format:

<project ID> : <project lower quota> <project upper quota> : <supervisor ID>

Each line of supervisor information is of the following format:

<supervisor ID> : <supervisor lower quota> : <supervisor upper quota> :

Instance files in Section 6.4 do not contain information about project lower quotas or supervisor lower quotas in the lines of project and supervisor information, respectively.