The philadelphia districting contest: Designing territories for city council based upon the 2010 census

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Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 477-489

  Gopalan, Ram ^a   Kimbrough, Steven O ^b   Murphy, Frederic H ^c   Quintus, Nicholas ^d  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Office of Watersheds   (United States)

Author keywords

Games; Genetic algorithms; Optimization; Political districting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888339652     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.2013.0697     Document Type: Article

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