Analysis of a metaheuristic for redistricting

The project goal is to implement a metaheuristic for redistricting and analyze it.

Getting Started

Project overview

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├── common                  # includes code that can be later reused in other metaheuristics
├── data                    # contains data and optimal solutions for test cases    
├── entities                # contains data types that are used as a means of bundling geographic data  
├── experiments_output      # contains csv output files of run  
├── profiling               # contains profling info on code
├── script_parallel         # contains scripts that can be used to run the parallel version of SA
├── script_sequential       # contains scripts that can be used to run sequential version of SA
├── simulated_annealing     # contains an implemented version of simulated annealing 
├── slurm_output            # contains slurm ouput files fir test suite 1 and test suite 2 
├── utils                   # contains code to generate test cases and some other things
├── visualisation           # contains scripts/tools for visualization
└── visualisation_output_sa # contains visualization output files 

Running the algorithm

Simulated annealing can be run through scripts that are located in script_parallel and script_sequential