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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

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

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

A version of the Schelling model on $\mathbb{Z}$ is defined, where two types of agents are allocated on the sites. An agent prefers to be surrounded by other agents of its own type, and may choose to move if this is not the case. It then…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Maria Deijfen , Timo Hirscher

Schelling segregation is a well-established model used to investigate the dynamics of segregation in agent-based models. Since we consider segregation to be key for the development of political polarisation, we are interested in what…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Sage Anastasi , Giulio Dalla Riva

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

We consider a Schelling-like segregation model, in which the behavior of individual agents is determined by a mixed individual and global utility. With a high ratio of global utility being incorporated, the agents are cooperative in order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Akihisa Okada , Daisuke Inoue , Shihori Koyama , Tadayoshi Matsumori , Hiroaki Yoshida

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

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

This paper generalizes the original Schelling (1969, 1971a,b, 2006) model of racial and residential segregation to a context of variable externalities due to social linkages. In a setting in which individuals' utility function is a convex…

General Economics · Economics 2023-01-24 Roy Cerqueti , Luca De Benedictis , Valerio Leone Sciabolazza

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

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

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

A model of the urban agglomeration and segregation is formulated, in which two types of agents move around on the square-lattice aligned cells. The model is shown to exhibit, when the density of agents are varied as the control parameter,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-07-24 Taksu Cheon , Michikazu Kobayashi

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

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

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

The similarities between phase separation in physics and residential segregation by preference in the Schelling model of 1971 are reviewed. Also, new computer simulations of asymmetric interactions different from the usual Ising model are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Stauffer , S. Solomon