Dear participants, very good papers on automatic districting are "Political District Determination Using Large-scale Optimization" (Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 11-28, 1997) by John A. George, Bruce W. Lamar and Chris A. Wallace and "Political Districting: A Tabu Search Algorithm and Geographical Interfaces" (PhD thesis, University of Alberta at Edmonton, 1999) by Burcin Bozkaya.
Markus Schulze
