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Sectorization means dividing a set of basic units into sectors or parts, a procedure
that occurs in several contexts, such as political, health and school districting,
social networks and sales territory or airspace assignment, to achieve some goal
or to facilitate an activity. This presentation will focus on three main issues:
Measures, a new approach to sectorization problems and an application in waste
collection.
When designing or comparing sectors different characteristics are usually taken
into account. Some are commonly used, and they are related to the concepts
of contiguity, equilibrium and compactness. These fundamental characteristics
will be addressed, by defining new generic measures and by proposing a new
measure, desirability, connected with the idea of preference.
A new approach to sectorization inspired in Coulomb’s Law, which establishes a
relation of force between electrically charged points, will be proposed. A charged
point represents a small region with specific characteristics/values creating relations
of attraction/repulsion with the others (two by two), proportional to the
charges and inversely proportional to their distance. Finally, a real case about sectorization and vehicle routing in solid waste collection
will be mentioned.
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Sectorization Electromagnetism
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Dept. of Economic and Business, University of Catania