[agents] Please participate: Online Survey on Application Impact of Multiagent Systems and Technologies

["Jörg P. Müller"]

OPEN CALL TO PARTICIPATE IN AN ONLINE SURVEY ON APPLICATION IMPACT OF 
MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS AND TECHNOLOGIES (MAS&T)


While research on MAS&T is thriving, there are only few attempts to 
study the application impact this research and technology has had so far 
-- beyond publications in scientific journals and conferences (which 
usually do not select work on the grounds of application impact).

We are therefore currently carrying out a survey on application impact 
of MAS&T. As a first step, we are collecting pointers to important 
deployed work with practical impact in the area of MAS&T, academic as 
well as industrial, labeled "agents / MAS" or differently. Based on the 
input we receive, we are going to look in more detail at the most 
promising / often referred to work in a second stage.

To support the collection of data, we have prepared an online survey. 
Here we ask for the help of the community (i.e., YOU):

1. Please visit  http://winf.in.tu-clausthal.de/jpm/agent-survey

2. By using the web form, you can nominate up to three deployed 
applications of MAS&T (if you wish, you can nominate more by filling in 
the form multiple times).
    There is no ranking implied by the order in which you list the 
applications.
    You are encouraged to list own work too, including unpublished 
deployed work, e.g. with industrial partners.
    In this case, we may get back to you in the seond step and ask for 
additional information.

3. For each application, we kindly ask you for some meta-data including 
references in order to help us finding out more about it.

The criteria that define the scope of the survey are described at 
http://winf.in.tu-clausthal.de/jpm/agent-survey/impact.html

A plain-text version of the survey is attached to this mail.

We kindly ask you to fill in the online survey or return the plain-text 
survey no later than

SEPTEMBER 15, 2012.

It is our hope that this work will turn out useful for the agents/MAS 
community.

Best regards and thanks in advance for contributing,


Joerg P. Mueller and Klaus Fischer