The Informational Assumptions of Schelling Segregation: An Agent-Based Decomposition of Cue Inference, Cultural Schemas, and Residential Sorting (1.0.0)
This computational model accompanies the article “The Informational Assumptions of Schelling Segregation: An Agent-Based Decomposition of Cue Inference, Cultural Schemas, and Residential Sorting.” It implements an agent-based model in which agents infer latent neighborhood-type classes from noisy non-demographic cues through schema-specific diagnostic mappings, update beliefs, and relocate when satisfaction on a preferred latent class falls below a threshold.
The model serves as a mechanism-isolation device for studying the informational architecture underlying Schelling-style residential sorting. It includes the principal sweep configuration (14,400 runs across a seven-parameter grid), a disagreement-metric sub-sweep with permutation-minimized Jensen-Shannon divergence recorded natively, controls (positive, negative, and frozen-belief), a paired-seed cue-channel perturbation experiment, and selected-cell sensitivity sweeps for cue persistence and home-biased mobility.
The full ODD protocol, parameter manifests, deterministic seed schedules, processed outputs, regenerable figure scripts, the verification test suite, and the satisfaction-mapping audit document are included. Every reported run is deterministic given a (config, seed) pair, and an included audit script verifies bit-for-bit replay on sampled runs.
Release Notes
Initial release accompanying the manuscript submission to JASSS. Includes the principal sweep (14,400 runs, 7-parameter grid, 20 replicates per cell), the disagreement-metric sub-sweep (4,800 runs with permutation-minimized Jensen-Shannon divergence recorded natively), the Stage 2.5 broader replication (900 runs), three control conditions (positive, negative, frozen-belief), the paired-seed cue-channel perturbation experiment, and cue-persistence and home-biased mobility sensitivity sweeps. The full ODD protocol, methods archive, parameter manifests, deterministic seed schedules, regenerable figure scripts, verification test suite, and satisfaction-mapping audit are included. Every reported run is deterministic given a (config, seed) pair, and the included audit script verifies bit-for-bit replay on sampled runs. Restricted-for-review access at submission; will be made public on acceptance.
Associated Publications
Gladstone, E. (under review). The Informational Assumptions of Schelling Segregation: An Agent-Based Decomposition of Cue Inference, Cultural Schemas, and Residential Sorting. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.comses.net/codebases/f6d99823-3e27-4c8d-8ab1-296f2fcd1c47/releases/1.0.0