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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 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

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

The efficient and fair allocation of limited resources is a classical problem in economics and computer science. In kidney exchanges, a central market maker allocates living kidney donors to patients in need of an organ. Patients and donors…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-21 Rachel Freedman , Jana Schaich Borg , Walter Sinnott-Armstrong , John P. Dickerson , Vincent Conitzer

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

In kidney exchange programmes patients with end-stage renal failure may exchange their willing, but incompatible living donors among each other. National kidney exchange programmes are in operation in ten European countries, and some of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-22 Péter Biró , Márton Gyetvai , Radu Stefan Mincu , Alexandru Popa , Utkarsh Verma

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

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

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

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

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 burgeoning need for kidney transplantation mandates immediate attention. Mismatch of deceased donor-recipient kidney leads to post-transplant death. To ensure ideal kidney donor-recipient match and minimize post-transplant deaths, the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Ehsan Khan , Avishek Choudhury , Amy L Friedman , Daehan Won

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

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

In the query-commit problem we are given a graph where edges have distinct probabilities of existing. It is possible to query the edges of the graph, and if the queried edge exists then its endpoints are irrevocably matched. The goal is to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-10-06 Marco Molinaro , R. Ravi

Background: The kidney exchange problem (KEP) addresses the matching of patients in need for a replacement organ with compatible living donors. Ideally many medical institutions should participate in a matching program to increase the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Timm Birka , Kay Hamacher , Tobias Kussel , Helen Möllering , Thomas Schneider

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

Kidney transplantation is the preferred treatment for end-stage renal disease, yet the scarcity of donors and inefficiencies in allocation systems create major bottlenecks, resulting in prolonged wait times and alarming mortality rates.…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Sean Berry , Berk Gorgulu , Sait Tunc , Mucahit Cevik , Matthew J Ellis

Kidney exchange programs have been developed to overcome the compatibility challenges for patients with incompatible donors in kidney transplantation. A registry of such incompatible donor-recipient pairs is created, and compatibility is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-07 Utkarsh Verma , Narayan Rangaraj

Balancing fairness and efficiency in resource allocation is a classical economic and computational problem. The price of fairness measures the worst-case loss of economic efficiency when using an inefficient but fair allocation rule; for…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-11 Duncan C. McElfresh , John P. Dickerson