Two years ago, at the Paris conference on quality, John Casti told me it was he who wrote the first program for Schelling. Back in the Rand days.
Claudio
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On Nov 28, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Bruce Edmonds <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Colleagues,
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> Although Schelling's 1976 model of segregation is often cited as an
> early individual-based social simulation, he did not use a computer at
> the time, but rather "simulated" it manually using a checkerboard.
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> Does anyone know when it was first implemented as a computer simulation?
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