Inapproximability of the kidney exchange problem

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Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 199-202

  Biró, Péter ^a   Cechlárová, Katarína ^b  

^a BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Computational complexity; Cooperative game; Core; Inapproximability; Kidney transplantation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; GAME THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

COOPERATIVE GAME; CORE; INAPPROXIMABILITY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; TOP TRADING CYCLES;

TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

EID: 33846099875     PISSN: 00200190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipl.2006.09.012     Document Type: Article

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