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Graph Regionalization with Clustering and Partitioning: an Application for Daily Commuting Flows in Albania
The paper presents an original application of the recently proposed spatial data mining
method named GraphRECAP on daily commuting flows using 2011 Albanian census data.
Its aim is to identify several clusters of Albanian municipalities/communes; propose a
classification of the Albanian territory based on daily commuting flows among
municipalities/communes. Starting from 373 local units, we first applied a spatial
clustering technique without imposing any constraining strategy. Based on the input
variables, we obtained 16 clusters. In the second step of our analysis, we impose a set of
constraining parameters to identify intermediate areas between the local level
(municipality/commune) and the national one. We have defined 12 derived regions (same
number as the actual Albanian prefectures but with different geographies). These derived
regions are quite different from the traditional ones in terms of both geographical
dimensions and boundarie