Transcript livingsystems_AgentLink_2002-01

living markets®
living agents®
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Agenda
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Business Applications with
Agents
Agent Paradigm &
Agent Design
living markets®
Solution Platform
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Success Story: reway / reinsurance
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Benefits
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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.
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Success Story: Clickwaste
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Benefits
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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.
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Extract of Solutions since 1998:
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living markets Solution Platform
living markets
solution platform
living markets
logistics
living markets
finance
other
solution
Transportation Logistics
Supply Net Management
Trading
Production Logistics
living agents
agent server
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Real-time Adaptive Execution
MONTHLY NETWORK CAPACITY PLANNING
Number
of trucks
Quality
Problems
Actual
Optimum
Planned
Optimum
3 000
Cost
inefficiency
Capacity Utilization in %
70
73
100%
Time
Jan.Feb.Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept.
DAILY CAPACITY UTILIZATION PLAN vs. ACTUAL
Capacity
Utilization
single
truck/line
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Planned
Actual
Optimum
Return on Sales in %
Capacity Utilization
Plan/Actual
Daily actual capacity need
3,5
115%
Actual
Average 100%
Daily demand
variance
greater 40%
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Planed
50%
0%
Time
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Truck
Planned
Actual
Optimum
Example: 3% improvement of Capacity Utilization yields 75% improvement of ROS
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living markets Adaptive Execution
Adaptive Execution for Transportation (AET)
Business
Network
AET Modules
Shipper
Gives automated price
quotes
 Supply-side driven
yield management
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Yield
Optimizer
Identifies network
options
 Prioritizes best options
 Deviation
Implementation
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Other
Peer
Terminals
Depots
Depot
Capacity
Optimizer
Peer Network
Online auctions for
capacity
 eProcurement
 Security
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Trucker
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Capacity
Procurement
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Agenda
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Business Applications with
Agents
Agent Paradigm &
Agent Design
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Solution Platform
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Paradigm Shifts
real world mapping
(abstraction level)
role/goal oriented
object oriented
function oriented
command oriented
agents
C++, Java
3GL, C, Pascal, ...
2GL, Assembler
time
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Agent Oriented Design
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Agenda
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Business Applications with
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Agent Paradigm &
Agent Design
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Solution Platform
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living markets Structure
vertical solutions
living markets
look & feel
basics
finance
logistics
...
user interface
customized HTML-pages or applets
business logic
agents
configured autonomous agents
capabilities
system, database , monitoring,
integration, finance, logistics,
trading, pricing , content,
catalog, user, company
function primitives
database model
agent server
middleware
database
living agents
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object structure
agent infrastructure
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living markets Toolset
living markets
basics
finance
logistics
...
user interface
agents
capabilities
database
living agents
Java
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Ready For Live Presentation ?
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Agent Server
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runtime environment for the
agents
scalable middleware
communication
infrastructure
protocol support: TCP/IP,
Sockets, Secure Sockets,
RMI, HTTP, HTTPS, JMS,
Corba
application server
integration
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Agent Server
initial setup
booting through
run levels
starting of
system agents
starting of
application agents
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Agent Management
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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
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Agent Management (GUI)
other
connection
details
select different
sessions to
connect
select
communication
protocol
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Agent Management (GUI)
running agents
preconfigured
messages
what you
received
what you sent
visual command
prompt as in
living agents Cockpit
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Agent Management (command line)
detailed help
list of running
agents
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Application Configuration
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visual design of agent
scenarios
create agents
visually implement or change
agent strategies (business
logic)
configure agents
designed for end users
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Application Configuration
scenarios to
keep the
overview
highlights of
each agent in
one view
goals
services
freetext
description
agent
communication
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Application Configuration
list of goals of
the agent
strategy and
possibilities to
achieve the goal(s)
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Application Management
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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
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Application Management
extensible
administration
menu
rights/role
oriented menu
options
online help
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Application Management
language to
administer
detailed roles
and rights
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Demo Application
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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
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Demo Application
consumption
units (store)
connections
with varying
speed (road)
transportation
units (truck)
production
units (factory)
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Demo Application
trucks inform
each other
about slow
traffic
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