livingsystems AgentLink 2002 01 21

living markets® living agents®: 

living markets® living agents® Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21st, 2002

Agenda: 

Agenda Business Applications with Agents Agent Paradigm & Agent Design living markets® Solution Platform

Success Story: reway / reinsurance: 

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: 

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:: 

Extract of Solutions since 1998:

living markets Solution Platform: 

living markets Solution Platform living markets solution platform living agents agent server living markets logistics other solution living markets finance Production Logistics Transportation Logistics Supply Net Management Trading

Real-time Adaptive Execution: 

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 MONTHLY NETWORK CAPACITY PLANNING Planned Optimum Actual Optimum Number of trucks 3 000 Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. June July May Aug. Time Sept. Quality Problems Cost inefficiency Daily demand variance greater 40% DAILY CAPACITY UTILIZATION PLAN vs. ACTUAL 100% Capacity Utilization single truck/line Time 0% 50% Average 100% 115% Daily actual capacity need Actual Planed

living markets Adaptive Execution: 

Other Terminals 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 Depot Peer Depots Capacity Procurement Adaptive Execution for Transportation (AET) AET Modules Capacity Optimizer Yield Optimizer Business Network Peer Network

Agenda: 

Agenda Business Applications with Agents Agent Paradigm & Agent Design living markets® Solution Platform

Paradigm Shifts: 

Paradigm Shifts real world mapping (abstraction level) time

Agent Oriented Design: 

Agent Oriented Design agent/role capabilities agent/role agent/role

Agenda: 

Agenda Business Applications with Agents Agent Paradigm & Agent Design living markets® Solution Platform

living markets Structure: 

living markets Structure living markets

living markets Toolset: 

living agents living markets database capabilities user interface agents basics finance logistics ... living markets Toolset

Ready For Live Presentation ?: 

Ready For Live Presentation ?

Agent Server: 

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: 

Agent Server initial setup booting through run levels starting of system agents starting of application agents

Agent Management: 

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): 

Agent Management (GUI) select different sessions to connect select communication protocol other connection details

Agent Management (GUI): 

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): 

Agent Management (command line) detailed help list of running agents

Application Configuration: 

Application Configuration visual design of agent scenarios create agents visually implement or change agent strategies (business logic) configure agents designed for end users

Application Configuration: 

Application Configuration scenarios to keep the overview highlights of each agent in one view goals services freetext description agent communication

Application Configuration: 

Application Configuration list of goals of the agent strategy and possibilities to achieve the goal(s)

Application Management: 

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

Application Management: 

Application Management extensible administration menu rights/role oriented menu options online help

Application Management: 

Application Management language to administer detailed roles and rights

Demo Application: 

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: 

Demo Application production units (factory) consumption units (store) transportation units (truck) connections with varying speed (road)

Demo Application: 

Demo Application trucks inform each other about slow traffic