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Modeling Program - Schelling Model

This model illustrates how an emergent property, in this case segregation, can result from individual choices. In this model, there are two kinds of actors: blue and maize. Each actor is content if 35% or more of its immediate neighbors are of the same type. If it is not content, it moves to a random empty location. The model illustrates how even this relative tolerance for diversity can result in segretation.

The model is based on one of the first agent-based simulations. See Thomas Schelling (Nobel, Economics, 2005), Micromotives and Macrobehavior (New York: Norton, 1978, pp. 147-157). Source code and suggested exercises are also available at <http://www.pscs.umich.edu/Software/CC/CCAB.html>.

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