Political Districting for Elections to the German Bundestag: An Optimization-Based Multi-stage Heuristic Respecting Administrative Boundaries

Sebastian Goderbauer ()
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Sebastian Goderbauer: RWTH Aachen University, Operations Research

A chapter in Operations Research Proceedings 2014, 2016, pp 181-187 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract According to the legal requirements for Elections to the German Bundestag the problem of partitioning Germany into electoral districts can be formulated as a multi-criteria graph partition problem. To solve this regularly current problem, an optimization-based heuristic is introduced and successfully applied to German population data.

Keywords: German Bundestag; Respective Heuristics; Electoral Districts; Germany's Partition; Graphic Populations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-28697-6_26

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