Kybernetika 44 no. 3, 373-384, 2008

Pareto optimality in the kidney exchange problem

Viera Borbeľová and Katarína Cechlárová

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.