Balancing equity and efficiency in kidney allocation: An online adaptive stochastic bi-objective approach
Abstract
Kidney allocation presents a persistent trade-off between medical urgency (equity) and post-transplant survival (efficiency). This paper introduces an intelligent decision-support system that integrates stochastic optimization and game-theoretic reasoning to balance these competing objectives under uncertainty. We formulate a bi-objective stochastic model that compares pre-transplant mortality risk and expected post-transplant survival while enforcing regional chance constraints to limit graft-failure rates. To identify a fair and actionable policy, the framework applies the Nash Bargaining Solution to select a balanced compromise on the Pareto frontier. The resulting weights are then incorporated into an online adaptive two-stage stochastic program, enabling real-time allocation of newly available kidneys based on historical performance and predicted future capacity. Using national US waiting list data, the proposed system increases monthly deceased-donor transplants by 4.5%, reduces graft-failure probability by 6.22%, and raises average expected survival by 22.95%, while improving access for high-urgency candidates by 15%. These results demonstrate how combining optimization and adaptive learning principles can yield an intelligent, equitable, and efficient decision-support system for organ transplantation.
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| Título según WOS: | ID WOS:001668889100001 Not found in local WOS DB |
| Título de la Revista: | EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS |
| Volumen: | 308 |
| Editorial: | PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2026 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.eswa.2026.131148 |
| Notas: | ISI |