living markets

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living markets living agents

• Adaptive Execution in Business Networks

January 21st, 2002
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Agenda

• Business Applications with Agents
• Agent Paradigm Agent Design
• living markets Solution Platform

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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.
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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.
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Extract of Solutions since 1998
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living markets Solution Platform

living markets solution platform
living markets logistics
other solution
living markets finance
Transportation Logistics
Trading
Supply Net Management
Production Logistics
living agents agent server
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Real-time Adaptive Execution
MONTHLY NETWORK CAPACITY PLANNING
Number of trucks
Quality Problems
Capacity Utilization in
Actual Optimum
Planned Optimum
3 000
Cost inefficiency
100
Time
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
June
July
May
Aug.
Sept.
DAILY CAPACITY UTILIZATION PLAN vs. ACTUAL
Planned Actual Optimum
Capacity Utilization single truck/line
Return on Sales in
Daily actual capacity need
115
Actual
Average 100
Daily demandvariance greater 40
Planed
50
Planned Actual Optimum
0
Time
Example 3 improvement of Capacity Utilization
yields 75 improvement of ROS
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living markets Adaptive Execution
Adaptive Execution for Transportation (AET)

• Gives automated price quotes
• Supply-side driven yield management
• Identifies network options
• Prioritizes best options
• Deviation Implementation
• Online auctions for capacity
• eProcurement
• Security

BusinessNetwork
AET Modules
Shipper
Yield Optimizer
Other Terminals
Depot
Peer Depots
Capacity Optimizer
Peer Network
Capacity Procurement
Trucker
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Agenda

• Business Applications with Agents
• Agent Paradigm Agent Design
• living markets Solution Platform

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Paradigm Shifts
real world mapping (abstraction level)
time
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Agent Oriented Design
agent/role
capabilities
agent/role
agent/role
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Agenda

• Business Applications with Agents
• Agent Paradigm Agent Design
• living markets Solution Platform

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living markets Structure
living markets
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living markets Toolset
living markets
basics
finance
logistics
...
user interface
agents
capabilities
database
living agents
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Ready For Live Presentation ?
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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

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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