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An AZP-ACO Method for Region-Building
Angelos Mimis, Antonis Rovolis, and Marianthi Stamou
Panteion University, Department of Economic and Regional Development, Athens, Greece[email protected]
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Abstract. In this paper a regionalization algorithm which groups spatial areal objects into homogeneous zones is presented. The proposed method is based on Automatic Zoning Problem (AZP) procedure which is extended to use the Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) technique. The results produced are compared to the original AZP method. Both methods are applied into the classification of economic data in a post code level on the area of Athens.
Keywords: Region building, constrained clustering, Ant colony optimization, Automatic Zoning Problem
LNAI 7297, p. 81 ff.
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