Multiobjective spanning tree based optimization model to political redistricting
Multiobjective spanning tree based optimization model to political redistricting
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基于多目标生成树的政治选区重新划分优化模型
作者:
M. Kim
A successful political redistricting plan should be neutral by satisfying a number of requirements, such as equal population, and contiguity as well as compactness. Modeling approaches to solving this problem becomes either computationally intensive when the contiguity requirement is explicitly addressed, and requirements are used as more than one objective In this paper, a multiobjective mixed integer optimization model was developed based on developments in solving land acquisition problems. Using the approach, geographical criteria such as contiguity and compactness can be explicitly addressed. Tradeoff between compactness and equal population can be evaluated. The use of the approach based on synthetic data was demonstrated using a set of experiments.