Rodrigues, Ana MariaSoeiro Ferreira, José2016-01-262016-01-262015Chapter Operations Research and Big Data Volume 15 of the series Studies in Big Data pp 203-211978-3-319-24154-8http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/7508Sectorization means dividing a whole into parts (sectors), a procedure that occurs in many contexts and applications, usually to achieve some goal or to facilitate an activity. The objective may be a better organization or simplification of a large problem into smaller sub-problems. Examples of applications are political districting and sales territory division. When designing/comparing sectors some characteristics such as contiguity, equilibrium and compactness are usually considered. This paper presents and describes new generic measures and proposes a new measure, desirability, connected with the idea of preference.engSectorizationMeasures to evaluate sectorsbook part10.1007/978-3-319-24154-8_24