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Attack of the Rainbow Bots: Generating Diversity through Multi-Agent Systems

Attack of the Rainbow Bots: Generating Diversity through Multi-Agent Systems

Samuel G. Collins, Goran Trajkovski
Copyright: © 2006 |Pages: 46
ISBN13: 9781591407416|ISBN10: 1591407419|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781591407423|EISBN13: 9781591407430
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-741-6.ch010
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Collins, Samuel G., and Goran Trajkovski. "Attack of the Rainbow Bots: Generating Diversity through Multi-Agent Systems." Diversity in Information Technology Education: Issues and Controversies, edited by Goran Trajkovski, IGI Global, 2006, pp. 196-241. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-741-6.ch010

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Collins, S. G. & Trajkovski, G. (2006). Attack of the Rainbow Bots: Generating Diversity through Multi-Agent Systems. In G. Trajkovski (Ed.), Diversity in Information Technology Education: Issues and Controversies (pp. 196-241). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-741-6.ch010

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Collins, Samuel G., and Goran Trajkovski. "Attack of the Rainbow Bots: Generating Diversity through Multi-Agent Systems." In Diversity in Information Technology Education: Issues and Controversies, edited by Goran Trajkovski, 196-241. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2006. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-741-6.ch010

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Abstract

Many in IT education—following on more than twenty years of multicultural critique and theory—have integrated “diversity” into their curricula. But while this is certainly laudable, there is an irony to the course “multiculturalism” has taken in the sciences in general. By submitting to a canon originating in the humanities and social sciences—no matter how progressive or well-intentioned—much of the transgressive and revolutionary character of multicultural pedagogies is lost in translation, and the insights of radical theorists become, simply, one more module to graft onto existing curricula or, at the very least, another source of authority joining or supplanting existing canons. In this essay, we feel that introducing diversity into IT means generating this body of creative critique from within IT itself, in the same way multiculturalism originated in the critical, transgressive spaces between literature, cultural studies, anthropology and pedagogy. The following traces our efforts to develop isomorphic critiques from recent insights into multi-agent systems using a JAVA-based, software agent we’ve developed called “Izbushka.”

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