Mechanisms for Online Organ Matching

Mechanisms for Online Organ Matching

Nicholas Mattei, Abdallah Saffidine, Toby Walsh

Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 345-351. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/49

Matching donations from deceased patients to patients on the waiting list account for over 85\% of all kidney transplants performed in Australia. We propose a simple mechanisms to perform this matching and compare this new mechanism with the more complex algorithm currently under consideration by the Organ and Tissue Authority in Australia. We perform a number of experiments using real world data provided by the Organ and Tissue Authority of Australia. We find that our simple mechanism is more efficient and fairer in practice compared to the other mechanism currently under consideration.
Keywords:
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Economic paradigms, auctions and market-based systems
Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Social Choice Theory