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3:30:00 PM on 2/11/2010
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SSL 150
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Talk Title: Design and Algorithms for Modern Kidney Exchanges
Speaker: Prof. Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University)
Host: Prof. Milind Tambe
Abstract:
In kidney exchanges, patients with kidney disease can obtain compatible donors by swapping their own willing but incompatible donors. The clearing problem involves finding a social welfare maximizing set of non-overlapping short cycles. We proved this NP-hard. It was one of the main obstacles to a national kidney exchange. We pre...read more at event URL-
http://www.cs.usc.edu/calendar/csevent.asp?date=2/11/2010&Event_ID=884
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