TY - JOUR
T1 - A unified framework for Schelling's model of segregation
AU - Rogers, Tim
AU - McKane, Alan J
PY - 2011/7
Y1 - 2011/7
N2 - 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 state of the literature on the subject is somewhat fragmented and lacking comprehensive analytical treatments. In this article a unified mathematical framework for Schelling's model and its many variants is developed. This methodology is useful in two regards: firstly, it provides a tool with which to understand the differences observed between models; secondly, phenomena which appear in several model variations may be understood in more depth through analytic studies of simpler versions.
AB - 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 state of the literature on the subject is somewhat fragmented and lacking comprehensive analytical treatments. In this article a unified mathematical framework for Schelling's model and its many variants is developed. This methodology is useful in two regards: firstly, it provides a tool with which to understand the differences observed between models; secondly, phenomena which appear in several model variations may be understood in more depth through analytic studies of simpler versions.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80051487570&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-5468/2011/07/P07006
UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1971
U2 - 10.1088/1742-5468/2011/07/P07006
DO - 10.1088/1742-5468/2011/07/P07006
M3 - Article
SN - 1742-5468
VL - 2011
JO - Journal of Statistical Mechanics-Theory and Experiment
JF - Journal of Statistical Mechanics-Theory and Experiment
IS - July
M1 - P07006
ER -