MODELLING SEGREGATION THROUGH CELLULAR AUTOMATA: A THEORETICAL ANSWER

Juan Benito Ostolaza and Penelope Hernandez ()

Working Papers. Serie AD from Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie)

Abstract: This paper is a note in which we prove that Cellular Automata are suitable tools to model multi-agent interactive procedures. In particular, we apply the argument to validate results from simulation tools obtained for the classical model of segregation of Thomas Schelling (1971a).

Keywords: Cellular Automata; segregation; local information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C61 C73 D82 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 11 pages
Date: 2007-07
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