Title
Multi-region electoral districting using computational geometry
Abstract
Electoral Districting has received much attention recently due to electoral regulations changes. Traditionally, these process were done manually which generally require huge human resources and may introduce controversies. We have developed the two-partitioning algorithm that solved the simple electoral districting problems intelligently. However, this algorithm can not be used directly to solve the multi-region electoral districting problems. In this paper, we present a new computational geometry based two-partitioning algorithm and use it to solve the multi-region electoral districting problems through recursively applying of this algorithm. The problem of huge amount of feasible solutions can be reduced substantially by introducing the concept of "indivisible region". Using this concept, the new partitioning algorithm, and the simple bricklayer method, we developed a mechanism for solving the multi-region districting problems. We choose a local city to illustrate the entire mechanism. The experimental results show that our mechanism solves the multi-region electoral districting problems successfully.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/ICMLC.2013.6890774
ICMLC
Keywords
Field
DocType
geographical information system,politics,artificial intelligence,two-partitioning algorithm,computational geometry,dynamic programming,local city,electoral regulation,local government,multiregion electoral districting,electoral districting,geographic information systems
Dynamic programming,Geographic information system,Computer science,Computational geometry,Artificial intelligence
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
03
2160-133X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
1
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
mawkae hor100.34
Kai-Hsuan Chan2103.23
yi fan peng300.34
hung min hsu443.12
何瑁鎧500.34
詹凱軒600.34
彭逸帆700.34
許宏敏800.34