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Suppose you are on the advisory board for the planning of a supermarket chain, and there are plans to open a new branch at a certain location. To predict whether the new branch will be profitable, you must estimate the number of customers it will attract. For this you have to model the behavior of your potential customers: how do people decide where to do their shopping? A similar question arises in social geography, when studying the economic activities in a country: what is the trading area of certain cities
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de Berg, M., van Kreveld, M., Overmars, M., Schwarzkopf, O. (1997). Voronoi Diagrams. In: Computational Geometry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03427-9_7
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