Improving Policy-Constrained Kidney Exchange via Pre-Screening

1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2020 • Duncan C McElfresh, Michael Curry, Tuomas Sandholm, John P Dickerson

In barter exchanges, participants swap goods with one another without exchanging money; exchanges are often facilitated by a central clearinghouse, with the goal of maximizing the aggregate quality (or number) of swaps.

Indecision Modeling

1 code implementation • 15 Dec 2020 • Duncan C McElfresh, Lok Chan, Kenzie Doyle, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Vincent Conitzer, Jana Schaich Borg, John P Dickerson

The philosophy and psychology literature shows that indecision is a measurable and nuanced behavior -- and that there are several different reasons people are indecisive.

Philosophy

Matching Algorithms for Blood Donation

no code implementations • 10 Aug 2021 • Duncan C McElfresh, Christian Kroer, Sergey Pupyrev, Eric Sodomka, Karthik Sankararaman, Zack Chauvin, Neil Dexter, John P Dickerson

Using the Facebook Blood Donation tool, we conduct the first large-scale algorithmic matching of blood donors with donation opportunities.