The 11 original regions for organ allocation in the United States were determined by proximity between hospitals that provided deceased donors and transplant programs. As liver transplants became more successful and demand rose, livers became a scarce resource. A national system has been implemented to prioritize liver allocation according to disease severity, but the system still operates with...

We consider a resource allocation problem with two types of goods: a plentiful good that all agents have approximately the same value for, and a scarce good that agents value differently (imagine, e.g., job requests on an ordinary computing cluster versus a restricted high-performance cluster). A social planner seeks to allocate the scarce resource to the agent who values it most. We depart fro...

Wireless bandwidth is a scarce resource in a cellular mobile network. As such, it is important to effectively allocate bandwidth to each cell such that the overall system performance is optimized. Channel allocation strategies have been extensively studied for voice communications in cellular networks. However, for data dissemination applications, studies on bandwidth allocation have thus far b...

Photo by Richard Catabay on Unsplash ABSTRACT COVID-19 exposed deep-rooted structural inequities. Allocation protocols developed during may cause furtherance of inequalities. In this essay, I specifically address the issue inequities in context resource allocation a period crisis standard care. response to increasing evidence pandemic, physicians and bioethicists Douglas White Bernard Lo propos...

In this issue of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Powell et al1 summarize the efforts of the New York State Workgroup on Allocation in an Influenza Pandemic to develop guidance for allocation of scarce mechanical ventilators during a severe influenza pandemic. In the United States, a core societal expectation is nearly limitless provision of critical care to those who want it a...