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We study an agent-based model of evolution of wealth distribution in a macro-economic system. The evolution is driven by multiplicative stochastic fluctuations governed by the law of proportionate growth and interactions between agents. We…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-11-22 Zdzislaw Burda , Pawel Wojcieszak , Konrad Zuchniak

We initiate the study of the heterogeneous facility location problem with limited resources. We mainly focus on the fundamental case where a set of agents are positioned in the line segment [0,1] and have approval preferences over two…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Argyrios Deligkas , Aris Filos-Ratsikas , Alexandros A. Voudouris

We analyze the Schelling model of segregation in which a society of n individuals live in a ring. Each individual is one of two races and is only satisfied with his location so long as at least half his 2w nearest neighbors are of the same…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-30 Christina Brandt , Nicole Immorlica , Gautam Kamath , Robert Kleinberg

Growth is a multi-layered phenomenon in human societies, composed of socioeconomic and demographic change at many different scales. Yet, standard macroeconomic indicators average over most of these processes, blurring the spatial and…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-11-11 Jordan T Kemp , Laura Fürsich , Luís M A Bettencourt

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 encodes information about society, such as social cohesion, mixing, and inequality. However, most past and current studies tackled socioeconomic (SE) segregation by analyzing static aggregated mobility networks, often without…

We extend our model of wealth segregation to incorporate migration and study the tendencies towards dual segregation - segregation due to identity (migrants vs. residents) and segregation due to wealth. We find a sharp, non-linear…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-11 Anand Sahasranaman , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen

We represent the functioning of the housing market and study the relation between income segregation, income inequality and house prices by introducing a spatial Agent-Based Model (ABM). Differently from traditional models in urban…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2018-10-23 Marco Pangallo , Jean Pierre Nadal , Annick Vignes

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

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

Urban areas serve as melting pots of people with diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, who may not only be segregated but have characteristic mobility patterns in the city. While mobility is driven by individual needs and preferences, the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-26 Rafiazka Millanida Hilman , Gerardo Iñiguez , Márton Karsai

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

Over the past decades, breakthroughs such as Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Agent-based modeling (ABM) have made simulations of economic models feasible. Recently, there has been increasing interest in applying ABM to study the impact of…

General Economics · Economics 2022-11-23 Xinyu Li

The kinetic exchange model has gained popularity in the field of statistical mechanics for investigating wealth interaction. Traditionally, kinetic exchange models have been studied without considering preferential interactions. However, in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-26 Suchismita Banerjee

The phenomenon of gentrification of an urban area is characterized by the displacement of lower-income residents due to rising living costs and an influx of wealthier individuals. This study presents an agent-based model that simulates…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-08-07 Giovanni Mauro , Nicola Pedreschi , Renaud Lambiotte , Luca Pappalardo

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

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

The uneven distribution of wealth and individual economic capacities are among the main forces which shape modern societies and arguably bias the emerging social structures. However, the study of correlations between the social network and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-12-15 Yannick Leo , Eric Fleury , J. Ignacio Alvarez-Hamelin , Carlos Sarraute , Márton Karsai

Endogenous, ideas-led, growth theory and agent based modelling with neighbourhood effects literature are crossed. In an economic overlapping generations framework, it is shown how social interactions and neighbourhood effects are of vital…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Tanya Araujo , Miguel St. Aubyn

We significantly extend our earlier variant of the Schelling model, incorporating a neighborhood Potential function as well as an agent wealth gain function to study the long term evolution of the economic status of neighborhoods in cities.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-09-11 Anand Sahasranaman , Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen