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Theoretical models of populations and swarms typically start with the assumption that the motion of agents is governed by the local stimuli. However, an intelligent agent, with some understanding of the laws that govern its habitat, can…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2018-02-07 Nathaniel Rupprecht , Dervis Can Vural

Individual choices are either based on personal experience or on information provided by peers. The latter case, causes individuals to conform to the majority in their neighborhood. Such herding behavior may be very efficient in aggregating…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-11 Philippe Curty , Matteo Marsili

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

Half of the world population resides in cities and urban segregation is becoming a global issue. One of the best known attempts to understand it is the Schelling model, which considers two types of agents that relocate whenever a transfer…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-11-09 Diego Ortega , Javier Rodríguez-Laguna , Elka Korutcheva

We investigate the dependence of steady-state properties of Schelling's segregation model on the agents' activation order. Our basic formalism is the Pollicott-Weiss version of Schelling's segregation model. Our main result modifies this…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Gabriel Istrate

Schelling's model of segregation demonstrates that even in the absence of social or governmental interventions, individuals with mild in-group preferences can self-organize into strongly segregated neighborhoods. Many variants of this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-02-11 Fabio van Dissel , Tuan Minh Pham , Wout Merbis

Thomas Schelling proposed an influential simple spatial model to illustrate how, even with relatively mild assumptions on each individual's nearest neighbor preferences, an integrated city would likely unravel to a segregated city, even if…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-11-15 Abhinav Singh , Dmitri Vainchtein , Howard Weiss

Schelling games model the wide-spread phenomenon of residential segregation in metropolitan areas from a game-theoretic point of view. In these games agents of different types each strategically select a node on a given graph that models…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Tobias Friedrich , Pascal Lenzner , Louise Molitor , Lars Seifert

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

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

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

A simple queueing approach for segregation of agents in modified one dimensional Schelling segregation model is presented. The goal is to arrive at simple formula for the number of unhappy agents remaining after the segregation.

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-12-19 Pawel Sobkowicz

We derived the critical neighborhood demand in the Schelling's segregation model by studying the conditions for which a chain reaction of migrations of unsatisfied agents occurs. The essence of Schelling dynamics was approximated in two…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2014-02-07 Jae Kyun Shin , Hiroki Sayama

We introduce the class of modified Schelling games in which there are different types of agents who occupy the nodes of a location graph; agents of the same type are friends, and agents of different types are enemies. Every agent is…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Panagiotis Kanellopoulos , Maria Kyropoulou , Alexandros A. Voudouris

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 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

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

Thomas Schelling introduced his agent-based model of segregation in 1971 and concluded that even when there is a low amount of intolerance within society that segregation will develop if people follow their individual preferences. A large…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2024-03-05 Joseph D. Johnson , Marisa C. Eisenberg

Thomas Schelling developed an influential demographic model that illustrated how, even with relatively mild assumptions on each individual's nearest neighbor preferences, an integrated city would likely unravel to a segregated city, even if…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-19 Abhinav Singh , Dmitri Vainchtein , Howard Weiss

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