Solving the segmentation problem for the 2010 Argentine census with integer programming

Type Journal Article - Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
Title Solving the segmentation problem for the 2010 Argentine census with integer programming
Author(s)
Volume 37
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2011
Page numbers 279-284
URL http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1571065311000497
Abstract
One of the most challenging tasks within the planning of a demographic census is to partition each census track into sets of homes such that each census taker visits exactly one set from this partition. In this work we introduce the home segmentation problem, which consists in designing such a partition subject to specific constraints. We present an integer programming-based algorithm for this problem, and we report the application of this algorithm for the 2010 census in the main province in Argentina.

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