A practical optimization framework for political redistricting: A case study in Arizona

R Swamy, DM King, IG Ludden, KW Dobbs… - Socio-Economic …, 2024 - Elsevier
Following the decennial census, each state in the US redraws its congressional and state
legislative district boundaries, which must satisfy various legal criteria. For example …

Multiobjective optimization for politically fair districting: A scalable multilevel approach

R Swamy, DM King, SH Jacobson - Operations Research, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
Political districting in the United States is a decennial process of redrawing the boundaries
of congressional and state legislative districts. The notion of fairness in political districting …

Facilitating Compromise in Redistricting with Transfer Distance Midpoints

KW Dobbs, DM King, IG Ludden… - INFORMS Journal on …, 2024 - pubsonline.informs.org
States in the United States redraw their electoral district boundaries every 10 years. This
redistricting process can be contentious and has long-lasting consequences for political …

Optimization approaches for political districting and graph partitioning

R Swamy - 2023 - ideals.illinois.edu
Graph partitioning (GP) is the problem of dividing a graph into smaller subgraphs with
desired properties. GP is valuable in a variety of domains such as social, transportation and …

Highly Connected Graph Partitioning: Exact Formulation and Solution Methods

R Swamy, DM King, SH Jacobson - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08329, 2024 - arxiv.org
Graph partitioning (GP) and vertex connectivity have traditionally been two distinct fields of
study. This paper introduces the highly connected graph partitioning (HCGP) problem, which …

The Fairness of Redistricting Ghost

JW Liang, N Amenta - arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.07440, 2024 - arxiv.org
We explore the fairness of a redistricting game introduced by Mixon and Villar, which
provides a two-party protocol for dividing a state into electoral districts, without the …

Comparing voting districts with uncertain data envelopment analysis

A Holder, C Garner - Optimization Letters, 2023 - Springer
Delineating voting districts is one of the most salient concerns of contemporary American
society, and the creation of new voting maps, along with their subsequent legal challenges …

Simulation Analysis of the Distrix Protocol for Political Redistricting

C Fu - 2023 - search.proquest.com
This thesis explores the process of political redistricting, a crucial component of ensuring fair
representation in legislative bodies. The study first outlines the background and criteria of …