Juho wrote:
On Aug 29, 2008, at 15:51 , Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
One more approach to semi-computerized voting. A computer displays
the personal alternatives and then prints a ballot. This solution
hides the personalized nature of the ballot and still avoids the
problem of voter voting
On Sep 1, 2008, at 7:28 AM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
A simpler algorithm, though one that doesn't give any worst-case
bounds, is Lloyd's algorithm. Start with random center points, then
calculate the centroids for the current Voronoi cells. Move the
center points towards the centroid
On 9/2/08, Brian Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have implemented essentially that, and it pretty quickly gets pretty good
results as measured by the distance per person to land-area-center test. I
added one thing to deal with variations in population density. Each district
center also has
On Sep 2, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm wrote:
Your reference to a Cd variable to get population proportionality is
interesting. I think part of the problem that you're trying to fix
here comes from that clustering (such as by Lloyd's algorithm)
optimizes for energy instead of
