Turtles, termites, and traffic jams : explorations in massively parallel microworlds
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Turtles, termites, and traffic jams : explorations in massively parallel microworlds
（Complex adaptive systems）
MIT Press, 1997, c1994
1st MIT Press pbk. ed
- : pbk
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"A Bradford book."
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-163)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
How does a bird flock keep its movements so graceful and synchronized? Most people assume that the bird in front leads and the others follow. In fact, bird flocks don't have leaders: they are organized without an organizer, coordinated without a coordinator. And a surprising number of other systems, from termite colonies to traffic jams to economic systems, work the same decentralized way. Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams describes innovative new computational tools that can qhelp people (even young children) explore the workings of such systems-and help them move beyond the centralized mindset.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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