Receiving a heart transplant is a matter of life and death for many patients. Every time a heart becomes available, a “match run” is created to generate a list of transplant candidates ranked by an ...

For decades, finance functions allocated resources based on historical data, intuition and a fixed annual budget cycle. This approach provided a stable foundation in predictable markets but lacked the ...

Over the course of six months in 2016, writer James Bloodworth worked for four companies: Amazon, in one of its warehouses; a home-care provider; insurer Admiral’s call centre; and Uber. Drivers for ...

Online algorithms are central to solving resource allocation and matching challenges in dynamic environments where decisions must be made without complete knowledge of future events. Research in this ...

Elzayn, Hadi, Shahin Jabbari, Christopher Jung, Michael J Kearns, Seth Neel, Aaron Leon Roth, and Zachary Schutzman. "Fair Algorithms for Learning in Allocation Problems." Proceedings of the ...

A resource allocation algorithm proposed by Luss and Gupta is extended by the introduction of a numerical method for the optimal distribution of a continous resource among preselected activities as an ...