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Abstract:
To overcome the shortage of cadaveric kidneys available for transplantation, several countries organize systematic kidney exchange programs. The kidney exchange problem can be modelled as a cooperative game between incompatible patient-donor pairs whose solutions are permutations of players representing cyclic donations. We show that the problems to decide whether a given permutation is not (weakly) Pareto optimal are NP-complete.
Keywords: barter exchange; kidney transplantation; Pareto optimality; NP-completeness;
AMS: 91A12; 91A06; 68Q25;
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