On the role of structured initial conditions in the Schelling model

Abstract

Despite the ubiquity of hierarchical structures found in every complex system, randominitial conditions are preestablished in several Sociophysics models. In this work, weshow the remarkable differences between both assumptions applied to the case of therenowned segregation Schelling model for minorities.It is found that, under a simple quasi non parametric Schelling model with structuredinitial conditions, the segregation phenomenon shows a local or short-range behavior,developing at the borders of the minority?majority agent pattern and leaving themacroscopic agent structure mostly unaltered. Besides, it is found that the highestuncontrollability regime pointed out in a previous article, perfectly corresponds to wheresystem segregation blows up.