Stochastic Control for Organ Donations: A Review
Systems and Control
2026-04-03 v1 Systems and Control
Abstract
We review the literature on individual patient organ acceptance decision making by presenting a Markov Decision Process (MDP) model to formulate the organ acceptance decision process as a stochastic control problem. Under the umbrella of the MDP framework, we classify and summarize the major research streams and contributions. In particular, we focus on control limit-type policies, which are shown to be optimal under certain conditions and easy to implement in practice. Finally, we briefly discuss open problems and directions for future research.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.02225,
title = {Stochastic Control for Organ Donations: A Review},
author = {Xingyu Ren and Michael C. Fu and Steven I. Marcus},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.02225},
year = {2026}
}