Overview
- First book to directly address districting and/or territory design problems
- Highlights recent advances in the field of districting, territory design and zone design
- Captures the diverse nature of districting applications in areas such as politics, sales, location/routing, and healthcare
Part of the book series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science (ISOR, volume 284)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Applications and Case Studies
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book highlights recent advances in the field of districting, territory design, and zone design. Districting problems deal essentially with tactical decisions, and involve mainly dividing a set of geographic units into clusters or territories subject to some planning requirements. This book presents models, theory, algorithms (exact or heuristic), and applications that would bring research on districting systems up-to-date and define the state-of-the-art.
Although papers have addressed real-world problems that require districting or territory division decisions, this is the first comprehensive book that directly addresses these problems. The chapters capture the diverse nature of districting applications, as the book is divided into three different areas of research. Part I covers recent up-to-date surveys on important areas of districting such as police districting, health care districting, and districting algorithms based on computational geometry. Part II focuses on recent advances on theory, modeling, and algorithms including mathematical programming and heuristic approaches, and finally, Part III contains successful applications in real-world districting cases.Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Optimal Districting and Territory Design
Editors: Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado
Series Title: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34312-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34311-8Published: 05 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34314-9Published: 05 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34312-5Published: 04 February 2020
Series ISSN: 0884-8289
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7934
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 211
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour
Topics: Discrete Optimization, Operations Research/Decision Theory, Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics