Finding long chains in kidney exchange using the traveling salesman problem

As of May 2014 there were more than 100,000 patients on the waiting list for a kidney transplant from a deceased donor. Although the preferred treatment is a kidney transplant, every year there are fewer donors than new patients, so the wait for a transplant continues to grow. To address this shorta...

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Main Authors: Anderson, Ross (Contributor), Ashlagi, Itai (Contributor), Gamarnik, David (Contributor), Roth, Alvin E. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Operations Research Center (Contributor), Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), 2015-08-05T14:54:48Z.
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