John explained th origin of Schelling's model first implementation in
his book "Complexification" (1994), pp. 213-215. It was the summer of
1967 and Schelling contacted Rand from Harvard for a help.
Flaminio
> 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
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> on 11/28/11 4:58 PM, Claudio Cioffi at [log in to unmask] wrote:
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>> 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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>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>
>> On Nov 28, 2011, at 3:00 PM, Bruce Edmonds <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Regards.
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>> Bruce Edmonds
>>> Centre for Policy Modelling
>>> Manchester Metropolitan University
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>>> http://bruce.edmonds.name
>
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