The robustness of outcomes to the parameterization of behavioral rules is a crucial property of any model aimed at simulating complex human systems. Schelling model of residential segregation satisfies this criterion. Based on the recently available high-resolution census GIS, we apply Schelling...

The Schelling model of segregation is an agent-based model that illustrates how individual tendencies regarding neighbors can lead to segregation. The model is especially useful for the study of residential segregation of ethnic groups where agents represent householders who relocate in the...

All current urban models accept the ‘first-order recursion’ view, namely, that the state of an urban system at time <i>t</i> is sufficient for predicting its state at <i>t+1</i>. This assumption is not at all evident in the case of urban development, where the behavior of developers and planners is...

This paper deals with the influence of the organization of an agent’s ethnic identities on ethnic residential patterns by extending the Schelling model to include a further hierarchical level; that is, the agents’ ethnic identities are organized in a two-level hierarchy (each agent belongs...

The socio-economic inferiority of the Arab minority compared to the Jewish majority and the unequal distribution of resources between Jewish and Arab towns in Israel are well known facts. However, so far there has been no evidence establishing whether unequal resource allocation also occurs...

The paper presents agent-based model and simulations of the evolution of land developers' industry in a city regulated by a land use plan. We start with developers who are homogeneous in terms of wealth and simulate their economic growth as they make investments in lands and accumulate profits...