On Empirical Validation of Compactness Measures for Electoral Redistricting and Its Significance for Application of Models in the Social Sciences

• Main Authors: CHOU, Christine, KIMBROUGH, Steven O., MURPHY, Frederic H., SULLIVAN-FEDOCK, John, WOODARD, C. Jason
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: systems design; evolutionary design; emotive design; genetic algorithms; evolutionary computing; districting; zone design; compactness; redistricting; reapportionment; interactive evolutionary computing; Computer Sciences
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2476; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3475/viewcontent/EmpiricalValidation_CKMSW_SSCR_2014.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Use of optimization models in science and policy applications is often problematic because the best available models are very inaccurate representations of the originating problems. Such is the case with electoral districting models, for which there exist no generally accepted measures of compactnes...