My mistake, with due apologies if necessary. I now seem to recall that John
told me about the first segregation program implementation at an earlier
meeting, in Torino, Italy. It's acknowledged and published here:
Cioffi-Revilla, Claudio. 2009. "Gli approcci computazionali per la
comprensione della complessita' sociale [Computational Approaches for
Understanding Social Complexity]." In _Conoscere la complessita': viaggio
tra le scienze_ [_Understanding Complexity: A Journey Through the
Sciences_], edited by Agata Spaziante. Milan, Italy: Bruno Mondadori.
Claudio
on 11/28/11 4:58 PM, Claudio Cioffi at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> 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:
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>> Dear Colleagues,
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Does anyone know when it was first implemented as a computer simulation?
>>
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>> Regards.
>>
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>> Bruce Edmonds
>> Centre for Policy Modelling
>> Manchester Metropolitan University
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