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

2. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 2 Agenda  Business Applications with Agents  Agent Paradigm & Agent Design  living markets ® Solution Platform

3. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 3 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.

4. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 4 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.

5. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 5 Extract of Solutions since 1998:

6. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 6 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

7. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 7 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.JuneJulyMay 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

8. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 8 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

9. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 9 Agenda  Business Applications with Agents  Agent Paradigm & Agent Design  living markets ® Solution Platform

10. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 10 Paradigm Shifts real world mapping (abstraction level) time agents role/goal oriented C++, Java object oriented 3GL, C, Pascal,... function oriented 2GL, Assembler command oriented

11. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 11 Agent Oriented Design agent/role perception action goal capabilities agent/role

12. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 12 Agenda  Business Applications with Agents  Agent Paradigm & Agent Design  living markets ® Solution Platform

13. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 13 living markets Structure agent server middleware agent infrastructure living agents living markets database model object structure database function primitives system, database, monitoring, integration, finance, logistics, trading, pricing, content, catalog, user, company capabilities configured autonomous agents business logic agents customized HTML-pages or applets look & feel basicsfinancelogistics... user interface vertical solutions

14. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 14 living agents living markets database capabilities user interface agents basicsfinancelogistics... living markets Toolset Java

15. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 15 Ready For Live Presentation ?

16. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 16 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

17. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 17 Agent Server initial setup booting through run levels starting of system agents starting of application agents

18. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 18 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

19. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 19 Agent Management (GUI) select different sessions to connect select communication protocol other connection details

20. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 20 Agent Management (GUI) running agents preconfigured messages what you received visual command prompt as in living agents Cockpit what you sent

21. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 21 Agent Management (command line) detailed help list of running agents

22. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 22 Application Configuration  visual design of agent scenarios  create agents  visually implement or change agent strategies (business logic)  configure agents  designed for end users

23. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 23 Application Configuration scenarios to keep the overview highlights of each agent in one view goals services freetext description agent communication

24. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 24 Application Configuration list of goals of the agent strategy and possibilities to achieve the goal(s)

25. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 25 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

26. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 26 Application Management extensible administration menu rights/role oriented menu options online help

27. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 27 Application Management language to administer detailed roles and rights

28. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 28 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

29. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 29 Demo Application production units (factory) consumption units (store) transportation units (truck) connections with varying speed (road)

30. Adaptive Execution in Business Networks January 21 st, 2002 30 Demo Application trucks inform each other about slow traffic