Measures in Sectorization Problems

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

José Soeiro Ferreira (Author) FEUP; Ana Rodrigues (Author) Other

Book

Title: Operations Research and Big Data: IO2015-XVII Congress of Portuguese Association of Operational Research (APDIO)

Pages: 203-211

ISBN: 978-3-319-24152-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-331924154-8

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Authenticus ID: P-00K-3ZD

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-24154-8_24

Abstract (EN): Sectorization means dividing a whole into parts (sectors), a procedure that occurs in many contexts and applications, usually to achieve some goal or to facilitate an activity. The objective may be a better organization or simplification of a large problem into smaller sub-problems. Examples of applications are political districting and sales territory division. When designing/comparing sectors some characteristics such as contiguity, equilibrium and compactness are usually considered. This paper presents and describes new generic measures and proposes a new measure, desirability, connected with the idea of preference. © 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific