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Kidney exchange programs among hospitals in the United States and across European countries improve efficiency by pooling donors and patients on a centralized platform. Sustaining such cooperation requires stability. When the core is empty,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Gergely Csáji , Thánh Nguyen

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the last two decades of research on Kidney Exchange Programs (KEPs), systematically categorizing and classifying key contributions to provide readers with a structured understanding of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Shayan Sharifi

Kidney transplants are sharply overdemanded in the United States. A recent innovation to address organ shortages is a kidney exchange, in which willing but medically incompatible patient-donor pairs swap donors so that two successful…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Irena Gao

Kidney exchange programs (KEP's) represent an additional possibility of transplant for patients suffering from end stage kidney disease. If a patient has a willing living donor with whom the patient is not compatible, the pair…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Xenia Klimentova , Péter Biró , Ana Viana , Virginia Costa , João Pedro Pedroso

In Kidney Exchange Programs (KEPs), each participating patient is registered together with an incompatible donor. Donors without an incompatible patient can also register. Then, KEPs typically maximize overall patient benefit through donor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-04 William St-Arnaud , Margarida Carvalho , Golnoosh Farnadi

Kidney paired donation programs (KPDPs) match patients with willing but incompatible donors to compatible donors with an assurance that when they donate, their intended recipient receives a kidney in return from a different donor. A patient…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-13 Lizeth Carolina Riascos-Alvarez , Merve Bodur , Dionne M. Aleman

In barter exchanges agents enter seeking to swap their items for other items on their wishlist. We consider a centralized barter exchange with a set of agents and items where each item has a positive value. The goal is to compute a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Juan Luque , Sharmila Duppala , John Dickerson , Aravind Srinivasan

We study an elementary path problem which appears in the pricing step of a column generation scheme solving the kidney exchange problem. The latter aims at finding exchanges of donations in a pool of patients and donors of kidney…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Lucie Pansart , Hadrien Cambazard , Nicolas Catusse

We propose a way in which Kidney exchange can be feasibly, economically and efficiently implemented in Indian medical space, named as Indian Kidney Exchange Program(IKEP) along with Indian specific influence on compatibility and final…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Arghya Bandyopadhyay , Sajal Mukhopadhyay

AI algorithms increasingly make decisions that impact entire groups of humans. Since humans tend to hold varying and even conflicting preferences, AI algorithms responsible for making decisions on behalf of such groups encounter the problem…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Rachel Freedman

The kidney paired donation (KPD) program provides an innovative solution to overcome incompatibility challenges in kidney transplants by matching incompatible donor-patient pairs and facilitating kidney exchanges. To address unequal access…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-21 Mingrui Zhang , Xiaowu Dai , Lexin Li

Motivated by kidney exchange, we study a stochastic cycle and chain packing problem, where we aim to identify structures in a directed graph to maximize the expectation of matched edge weights. All edges are subject to failure, and the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Hoda Bidkhori , John P Dickerson , Duncan C McElfresh , Ke Ren

A kidney exchange program, also called a kidney paired donation program, can be viewed as a repeated, dynamic trading and allocation mechanism. This suggests that a dynamic algorithm for transplant exchange selection may have superior…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-26 Margarida Carvalho , Alison Caulfield , Yi Lin , Adrian Vetta

The goal of a kidney exchange program (KEP) is to maximize number of transplants within a pool of incompatible patient-donor pairs by exchanging donors. A KEP can be modelled as a maximum matching problem in a graph. A KEP between…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Margarida Carvalho , Andrea Lodi

The seminal work of Roth, S\"onmez, & \"Unver shows that the Edmonds-Gallai structure theorem for non-bipartite matching can be leveraged to yield a randomized algorithm to match patient-donor pairs in kidney exchange with extraordinarily…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Claire Chang , Arin Khare , David Shmoys

In kidney exchange programmes (KEP) patients may swap their incompatible donors leading to cycles of kidney transplants. Nowadays, countries try to merge their national patient-donor pools leading to international KEPs (IKEPs). As shown in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Márton Benedek , Péter Biró , Gergely Csáji , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma , Xin Ye

The kidney exchange problem (KEP) is to find a constellation of exchanges that maximizes the number of transplants that can be carried out for a set of pairs of patients with kidney disease and their incompatible donors. Recently, this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Malte Breuer , Pascal Hein , Leonardo Pompe , Ben Temme , Ulrike Meyer , Susanne Wetzel

Motivated by kidney exchange, we study the following mechanism-design problem: On a directed graph (of transplant compatibilities among patient-donor pairs), the mechanism must select a simple path (a chain of transplantations) starting at…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Avrim Blum , Paul Gölz

Kidney exchange programs have been developed to find compatible kidneys for recipients who have incompatible donors. On the other hand, patients who do not have a living donor depend upon deceased donor (DD) donations to get a kidney…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-13 Utkarsh Verma , Narayan Rangaraj

Renal patients which have a willing but incompatible donor can decide to participate in a kidney exchange program (KEP). The goal of a KEP is to identify sets of such incompatible pairs that can exchange donors, leading to compatible…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Danny Blom , Christopher Hojny , Bart Smeulders