Districting Talks at INFORMS
Over the past few years, I’ve become increasingly interested in districting problems, so I was pleased to see a dozen talks on the subject at this year’s INFORMS. They span multiple application areas: political districting, police zone districting, and liver transplant districting.
- Sunday, October 20
- Atlanta Police Zone Redesign via Data-Driven Optimization, Shixiang Zhu (SA32)
- Multi-objective Optimization for Political Districting: A Scalable Multilevel Approach, Sheldon H. Jacobson (SB26)
- Monday, October 21
- Stochastic Districting Models, Stefan Nickel (MA57)
- Redistricting in Virginia, Robert Hildebrand (MD58)
- Contiguity Constraints in Geographic Districting, Douglas M. King (MD58)
- Using Simulated Annealing to Maximize Compactness of Congressional Districts in South Carolina, Blake Splitter (MD58)
- Transparency Vs Fairness in Political Redistricting, Rahul Swamy (MD58)
- Tuesday, October 22
- None.
- Wednesday, October 23
- Redistricting Liver Allocation: a Simulation-optimization Approach, Theodore Papalexopoulos (WA57)
- Planning Relief Distribution After Disasters Considering Social Costs, Ruben Yie (WA21)
- A Bisection Protocol for Political Redistricting, Ian G. Ludden (WC43)
- Defining and Finding Impartial Districtings, Gerdus Benade (WC43)
- Imposing Contiguity Constraints in Political Districting Models, Hamidreza Validi (WC43)