1Agent-Based Modeling of Residential Distribution

The multi-agent approach is the most promising among the modeling techniques developed in recent decade and applicable to demography and social science. Its development has revived old and raised new questions regarding the dynamics of complex human systems. This paper considers these questions with respect to the dynamics of urban residential distribution. The discussion is illustrated by several model examples, ranging from Schelling-type abstract agent-based models to real-world simulations of the population dynamics of an urban region having a population of 30,000