TY  - BOOK
AU  - Resnick,Mitchel
TI  - Turtles, termites, and traffic jams: explorations in massively parallel microworlds 
T2  - Complex adaptative systems
SN  - 0262680939
AV  - QA 76.58 R434t  1997
U1  - 003.7 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Cambridge, MA, London
PB  - MIT
KW  - Programación en paralelo (Informática)
KW  - CSICAUL
KW  - Inteligencia artificial
KW  - StarLogo (Lenguaje de programación)
N1  - Un libro Bradford; Bibliografía; 	Part 1 Foundations: introduction; the era of decentralization. Part 2 Constructions: constructionism; LEGO/logo; StarLogo; objects and parallelism. Part 3 Explorations: simulations and stimulations; slime mould; artificial ants; traffic jams; termites; turtles and frogs; turtle ecology; new turtle geometry; forest fire; recursive trees. Part 4 Reflections: the centralized mindset; beyond the centralized mindset. Part 5 Projections: growing up. Appendices: student participants; StarLogo overview
N2  - This text examines the concept of decentralization and its effects in everday culture. It considers the reasons behind resistance to decentralization, and describes computational methods - such as modelling and simulation - and activities that can help develop new perspectives on decentralization
ER  -