I've been calling a similar concept in my head "intertribes" for the way they resemble Venn diagrams interpenetrating each other, and thinking about simulations to see how much overlap would be needed to keep them from segregating the way current tribes always seem to.
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Great term. I think of them as "tribes" in my head too, modeled after the various circumpolar tribespeople who establish recurring familial connections to loosely ink their separated tribes (BTW, apparently this has happened so much over millennia that the locii of the Saami, the Siberians and the Northern Plains tribes are all noticeably genetically inter-related to this day. Some of the traditions and tools show this (pentatonic music, beaded artwork, tipi construction, etc)).
As for interrelation, I agree with @sycochica that the military has worked out a lot of this already, they may even have some open data available. I've been working within a concept of complete integration by "six degrees of separation" type links (requiring multidimensional venn diagrams). I may not be in your housing affiliation group since you own a home and I'm in an apartment co-op, but since I am in a housing affiliation group, I am probably connected to you by yard care groups and/or insurance groups and/or roof repair groups, etc.
One of the papers in this colloquium lays out how complete integration (at least of a spatial kind, the way we think of real estate markets) is kind of impossible as long as the individual agents show any preferences for their own tribes. Even small preferences will lead to segregation over time. In other words, if individual agents are unwilling to be completely surrounded by people not of their own tribe, then segregation is inevitable, unless there are also larger disturbances that re-mix the system.
http://www.pnas.org/content/99/suppl_3#ColloquiumPaper
Great resource, I'll have to take some time to go through it all, I didn't see the one you're referring to yet. I was immediately struck by this one though
http://www.pnas.org/content/99/suppl_3/7257.full
Which claims that entities composed of active agents can be considered active agents themselves.
If I remember which one it was I'll post a direct link.
A quick search also shows that business has accumulated a lot of data and research on the topic