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The Kidney Exchange Problem is a prominent challenge in healthcare and economics, arising in the context of organ transplantation. It has been extensively studied in artificial intelligence and optimization. In a kidney exchange, a set of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Kangyi Tian , Mingyu Xiao

A kidney exchange is a centrally-administered barter market where patients swap their willing yet incompatible donors. Modern kidney exchanges use 2-cycles, 3-cycles, and chains initiated by non-directed donors (altruists who are willing to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-29 Gabriele Farina , John P. Dickerson , Tuomas Sandholm

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

The kidney exchange problem (KEP) seeks to find possible exchanges among pairs of patients and their incompatible kidney donors while meeting specific optimization criteria such as maximizing the overall number of possible transplants.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Malte Breuer , Ulrike Meyer , Susanne Wetzel

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

In barter exchanges, participants swap goods with one another without exchanging money; exchanges are often facilitated by a central clearinghouse, with the goal of maximizing the aggregate quality (or number) of swaps. Barter exchanges are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-26 Duncan C McElfresh , Michael Curry , Tuomas Sandholm , John P Dickerson

Kidney paired donation programs allow patients registered with an incompatible donor to receive a suitable kidney from another donor, as long as the latter's co-registered patient, if any, also receives a kidney from a different donor. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-13 Lizeth Carolina Riascos-Álvarez , Merve Bodur , Dionne M. Aleman

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

Algorithms for exchange of kidneys is one of the key successful applications in market design, artificial intelligence, and operations research. Potent immunosuppressant drugs suppress the body's ability to reject a transplanted organ up to…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Haris Aziz , Agnes Cseh , John P. Dickerson , Duncan C. McElfresh

Kidney exchange programs (KEPs) form an innovative approach to increasing the donor pool through allowing the participation of renal patients together with a willing but incompatible donor. The aim of a KEP is to identify groups of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Danny Blom , Bart Smeulders , Frits C. R. Spieksma

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

We consider a well-studied online random graph model for kidney exchange, where nodes representing patient-donor pairs arrive over time, and the probability of a directed edge is p. We assume existence of a single altruistic donor, who…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Avrim Blum , Yishay Mansour

In kidney exchange programs, multiple patient-donor pairs each of whom are otherwise incompatible, exchange their donors to receive compatible kidneys. The Kidney Exchange problem is typically modelled as a directed graph where every vertex…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Arnab Maiti , Palash Dey

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

Kidney Exchange Programmes (KEPs) facilitate the exchange of kidneys, and larger pools of recipient-donor pairs tend to yield proportionally more transplants, leading to the proposal of international KEPs (IKEPs). However, as studied by…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Rachael Colley , David Manlove , Daniel Paulusma , Mengxiao Zhang

Kidney exchange is a barter market where patients trade willing but medically incompatible donors. These trades occur via cycles, where each patient-donor pair both gives and receives a kidney, and via chains, which begin with an altruistic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Benjamin Plaut , John P. Dickerson , Tuomas Sandholm

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

Kidney exchanges are organized markets where patients swap willing but incompatible donors. In the last decade, kidney exchanges grew from small and regional to large and national---and soon, international. This growth results in more lives…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-12-19 John P. Dickerson , Aleksandr M. Kazachkov , Ariel D. Procaccia , Tuomas Sandholm

A kidney exchange is an organized barter market where patients in need of a kidney swap willing but incompatible donors. Determining an optimal set of exchanges is theoretically and empirically hard. Traditionally, exchanges took place in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-14 John P. Dickerson , David F. Manlove , Benjamin Plaut , Tuomas Sandholm , James Trimble

We study the parameterized complexity of a recently introduced multi-agent variant of the Kidney Exchange problem. Given a directed graph $G$ and integers $d$ and $k$, the standard problem asks whether $G$ contains a packing of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Bart M. P. Jansen , Jeroen S. K. Lamme , Ruben F. A. Verhaegh
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