2011/04/30 by Tim Rogers, Alan J. McKane · 43 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2011/07/p07006
published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment 2011(07), P07006 (Institute of Physics) · 21 pages, 3 figures
arxiv created 2011/05/24 · openalex publication_date 2011/07/12 · arxiv updated 2015/03/18 · openalex created_date 2020/11/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Schelling's model of segregation is one of the first and most influential\nmodels in the field of social simulation. There are many variations of the\nmodel which have been proposed and simulated over the last forty years, though\nthe present state of the literature on the subject is somewhat fragmented and\nlacking comprehensive analytical treatments. In this article a unified\nmathematical framework for Schelling's model and its many variants is\ndeveloped. This methodology is useful in two regards: firstly, it provides a\ntool with which to understand the differences observed between models;\nsecondly, phenomena which appear in several model variations may be understood\nin more depth through analytic studies of simpler versions.\n