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Agent-based models of residential segregation have been of persistent interest to various research communities since their origin with James Sakoda and popularization by Thomas Schelling. Frequently, these models have sought to elucidate…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-05-14 Will Deter , Hiroki Sayama

Schelling's famous model of segregation assumes agents of different types who would like to be located in neighborhoods having at least a certain fraction of agents of the same type. We consider natural generalizations that allow for the…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Maria Kyropoulou , Alexandros A. Voudouris

In Schelling's segregation model, the successive moves of agents optimizing their own locations lead to a suboptimal segregated distribution of the population, even though all agents have the same preference for mixed neighborhoods. One of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-20 Nicolas Houy

Segregation is a growing concern around the world. One of its main manifestations is the creation of ghettos, whose inhabitants have difficult access to well-paid jobs, which are often located far from their homes. In order to study this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-12-23 D. Ortega , E. Korutcheva

Segregation affects millions of urban dwellers. The main expression of this reality is the creation of ghettos which are city parts characterized by a combination of features: low income, poor cultural level... Segregation models have been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-25 Diego Ortega , Elka Korutcheva

Schelling's model of segregation is one of the first and most influential models in the field of social simulation. There are many variations of the model which have been proposed and simulated over the last forty years, though the present…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-03-19 Tim Rogers , Alan J. McKane

We propose a metapopulation version of the Schelling model where two kinds of agents relocate themselves, with unconstrained destination, if their local fitness is lower than a tolerance threshold. We show that, for small values of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-05 Floriana Gargiulo , Yerali Gandica , Timoteo Carletti

The Schelling model of segregation between two groups of residential agents (Schelling 1971; Schelling 1978) reflects the most abstract view of the non-economic forces of residential migrations: be close to people of 'your own'. The model…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-10-14 Itzhak Benenson , Erez Hatna

Schelling's model of segregation, first described in 1969, has become one of the best known models of self-organising behaviour. While Schelling's explicit concern was to understand the mechanisms underlying racial segregation in large…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2016-09-12 George Barmpalias , Richard Elwes , Andy Lewis-Pye

We explore extensions of Schelling's model of social dynamics, in which two types of agents live on a checkerboard lattice and move in order to optimize their own satisfaction, which depends on how many agents among their neighbors are of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-24 A. P. Vieira , E. Goles , H. J. Herrmann

The collective behavior in a variant of Schelling's segregation model is characterized with methods borrowed from statistical physics, in a context where their relevance was not conspicuous. A measure of segregation based on cluster…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-02-22 Laetitia Gauvin , Jean Vannimenus , Jean-Pierre Nadal

The Schelling model of segregation was introduced in economics to show how micro-motives can influence macro-behavior. Agents on a lattice have two colors and try to move to a different location if the number of their neighbors with a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2022-10-11 Zhanzhan Zhao , Dana Randall

In this work, we propose and analyze a novel Schelling-type metapopulation model that examines how random relocations of families between neighborhoods can lead to segregation. The model consists of a large number of houses organized into…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-04-29 Fei Cao , Roberto Cortez

Schelling's model of segregation looks to explain the way in which particles or agents of two types may come to arrange themselves spatially into configurations consisting of large homogeneous clusters, i.e.\ connected regions consisting of…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-08-12 George Barmpalias , Richard Elwes , Andy Lewis-Pye

In this paper we study the effects of constraints on the dynamics of an adaptive segregation model introduced by Bischi and Merlone (2011). The model is described by a two dimensional piecewise smooth dynamical system in discrete time. It…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2015-06-19 D. Radi , L. Gardini , V. Avrutin

In the 70's Schelling introduced a multi-agent model to describe the segregation dynamics that may occur with individuals having only weak preferences for 'similar' neighbors. Recently variants of this model have been discussed, in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Gauvin , J. -P. Nadal , J. Vannimenus

Schelling's model is an influential model that reveals how individual perceptions and incentives can lead to residential segregation. Inspired by a recent stream of work, we study welfare guarantees and complexity in this model with respect…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Martin Bullinger , Warut Suksompong , Alexandros A. Voudouris

Since the development of the original Schelling model of urban segregation, several enhancements have been proposed, but none have considered the impact of mobility constraints on model dynamics. Recent studies have shown that human…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-09-26 Daniele Gambetta , Giovanni Mauro , Luca Pappalardo

We investigate the static and dynamic properties of a celebrated model of social segregation, providing a complete explanation of the mechanisms leading to segregation both in one- and two-dimensional systems. Standard statistical physics…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Luca Dall'Asta , Claudio Castellano , Matteo Marsili

Contrary to the widely believed hypothesis that larger, denser cities promote socioeconomic mixing, a recent study (Nilforoshan et al. 2023) reports the opposite behavior, i.e. more segregation. Here, we present a game-theoretic model that…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-08 Venkat Venkatasubramanian , Jessica Shi , Leo Goldman , Arun Sankar E. M. , Abhishek Sivaram