living markets ® living agents ® adaptive execution in business networks january 21 st, 2002

living markets®

living agents®

Adaptive Execution in Business Networks

January 21st, 2002

January 21st, 2002 2Adaptive Execution in Business Networks

Agenda

Business Applications with Agents

Agent Paradigm & Agent Design

living markets® Solution Platform


Success Story: reway / reinsurance

Benefits Reduction of

transaction costs Optimized capacity

and price allocation Competitive

advantage

An e-commerce platform for the global reinsurance market: primary insurers place risks and re-insurers can bid simultaneously within a specified bid time.


Success Story: Clickwaste

Benefits Country wide market

access Competitive

advantage Easy-to-use Lower marketing and

sales cost

Marketplace for industrial waste and recyclable material. The challenge is to combine business know-how from the old and new economy.


Extract of Solutions since 1998:


living markets Solution Platform

living marketssolution platform

living agentsagent server

living marketslogistics

othersolution

living marketsfinance

Production Logistics

Transportation Logistics

Supply Net ManagementTrading

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Real-time Adaptive Execution

Capacity Utilization in %

Planned Actual Optimum

Return on Sales in %

Planned Actual Optimum

Example: 3% improvement of Capacity Utilization yields 75% improvement of ROS

7073

2

3,5

MONTHLY NETWORK CAPACITY PLANNING

Planned Optimum

Actual Optimum

Number of trucks

3 000

Jan.Feb.Mar.Apr. June JulyMay Aug.Time

Sept.

Quality Problems

Cost inefficiency

Daily demandvariance greater 40%

DAILY CAPACITY UTILIZATION PLAN vs. ACTUAL

100%

Capacity Utilization single truck/line

Time0%

50%

Average 100%

115%

Daily actual capacity needCapacity Utilization

Plan/ Actual

1 2 3 4 5 6 ... 27 28 29 30 31Truck

Depot 33

Actual

Planed


OtherTerminals

living markets Adaptive Execution

Gives automated price quotes

Supply-side driven yield management

Identifies network options

Prioritizes best options Deviation Implementation

Online auctions for capacity

eProcurement Security

Shipper

Trucker

DepotPeer

Depots

CapacityProcurement

Adaptive Execution for Transportation (AET)

AET Modules

CapacityOptimizer

Yield Optimizer

BusinessNetwork

Peer Network


Agenda





Paradigm Shifts

real world mapping(abstraction level)

time

agentsrole/goal oriented

C++, Javaobject oriented

3GL, C, Pascal, ...function oriented

2GL, Assemblercommand oriented


Agent Oriented Design

agent/role

perception

perceptionaction

actionaction

action

action

goal goal goal

capabilities

agent/role agent/role


Agenda





living markets Structure

agent server middleware

agent infrastructureliving agents

living markets

database model

object structuredatabase

function primitivessystem, database , monitoring, integration, finance, logistics, trading, pricing , content, catalog, user, company

capabilities

configured autonomous agents

business logic

agents

customized HTML-pages or applets

look & feelbasics finance logistics ...

user interface

vertical solutions


living agents

living markets

database

capabilities

user interface

agents

basics finance logistics ...

living markets Toolset

Java


Ready For Live Presentation ?


Agent Server

runtime environment for the agents

scalable middleware communication

infrastructure protocol support: TCP/IP,

Sockets, Secure Sockets, RMI, HTTP, HTTPS, JMS, Corba

application server integration


Agent Server

initial setup

booting through run levels

starting of system agents

starting of application agents


Agent Management

management tool to control and manage the living agents runtime system and the agents running on it

control center for visual management

cockpit for command line based management

provides complete set of commands to monitor, debug and manage the system

configurable command list


Agent Management (GUI)

select different sessions to connect

select communication protocol

other connection details


Agent Management (GUI)

running agents

preconfigured messages

what you received

visual command prompt as in living agents Cockpit

what you sent


Agent Management (command line)

detailed help

list of running agents


Application Configuration

visual design of agent scenarios

create agents visually implement or change

agent strategies (business logic)

configure agents designed for end users



scenarios to keep the overview

highlights of each agent in one view

goals

services

freetext description

agent communication



list of goals of the agent

strategy and possibilities to achieve the goal(s)


Application Management

management of the business solution

management of daily operation

used by the backoffice team HTTP based web interface access controlled through

separate administration rights configurable menu structure



extensible administration menu

rights/role oriented menu options

online help



language to administer

detailed roles and rights


Demo Application

demonstrates the power and tools of living markets

shows the robustness of agent solutions

shows reactiveness, proactiveness, autonomy, peer-to-peer

achieves optimization through goal-orientation of autonomous instances

visual generation of logistics scenarios and agents

seamless collaboration between workflow- and behavior controlled agents


Demo Application

production units (factory)

consumption units (store)

transportation units (truck)

connections with varying speed (road)


Demo Application

trucks inform each other about slow traffic

living markets ® living agents ® adaptive execution in business networks january 21 st, 2002

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