Practitioner's Commentary: The Outstanding Kidney Exchange Papers.

The article discusses the outstanding papers in the 2007 Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM) of the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP). The contestants used mathematical models to simulate the kidney transplant system in the U.S. The contest was won by a team from Duke University and another from Princeton University. It mentions that the topic of the contest, which is kidney transplantation and allocation, was very timely since policies on kidney transplants are rapidly changing with the help of mathematical models. The article declares that the two most outstanding papers clearly stated changes in the public policy and used correct analytical models to support their conclusions. Detailed discussion of the two papers is also presented.