Kidney exchange programmes increase the rate of living donor kidney transplants, and operations research techniques are vital to such programmes. These techniques, as well as changes to policy regarding kidney exchange programmes, are often tested using random instances created by a Saidman generator. We devise a new matheuristic that can optimally solve a benchmark set … Read more
The establishment of kidney exchange programs has dramatically improved rates for kidney transplants by matching donors to compatible patients who would otherwise fail to receive a kidney for transplant. Rather than simply swapping kidneys between two patient-donor pairs, having multiple patient-donors pairs simultaneously donate kidneys in a cyclic manner enables all participants to receive a … Read more
In this paper, we study the Cardinality Constrained Multi-cycle Problem (CCMcP) and the Car- dinality Constrained Cycle and Chain Problem (CCCCP). A feasible solution allows one or more cardinality-constrained cycles to exist on the digraph. A vertex can only be involved in at most one cycle, and there may be vertices not involved in any … Read more