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cs.DS2021
Scheduling Appointments Online:\\ The Power of Deferred Decision-Making
Devin Smedira, David B. Shmoys
The recently introduced online Minimum Peak Appointment Scheduling (MPAS) problem is a variant of the online bin-packing problem that allows for deferred decision making. Specifica…
cs.GT2021★ 3 cited
Combatting Gerrymandering with Ranked Choice Voting: An Experimental Analysis of Multi-member Districts in the United States
Nikhil Garg, Wes Gurnee, David Rothschild +1
Every representative democracy must specify a mechanism under which voters choose their representatives. The most common mechanism in the United States -- Winner takes all single-m…
cs.CY2021
Fairmandering: A column generation heuristic for fairness-optimized political districting
Wes Gurnee, David B. Shmoys
The American winner-take-all congressional district system empowers politicians to engineer electoral outcomes by manipulating district boundaries. Existing computational solutions…