Hot DAML: Electronic Commerce Gateway

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Hot DAML Electronic Commerce Gateway

• David E. Anyiwo
• Bowie State University
• July 18, 2001

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The DAML EC Gateway

• The DAML EC Gateway provides consolidated access
  to all the business content that employees,
  trading partners, customers, and other
  stakeholders in computer manufacturing need to
  consummate their transactions

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Challenges in Intelligent Manufacturing

• Modern manufacturing enterprises constantly
  handle thousands of different-size parts and
  products in various stages of production, and are
  often confronted with the complex logistical
  challenge of determining the best path in the
  supply chain for each part.
• This challenge is further complicated by the
  unpredictable behavior of the supply chain as
  participants interact in a rapidly changing
  environment.

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The Hot DAML Concept

• The intent of proposed Hot DAML effort is to
  build an open, dynamic electronic commerce
  architecture and develop advanced e-business
  tools that provide unified access to fully
  described business content and also facilitate
  the derivation of the optimum paths for various
  components in the supply chain.
• Agent technology will be used to develop such
  tools.

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The Hot DAML Thrust

• The central thrust of the effort is on the
  design, development, and deployment of
  agent-based tools that offer several layers of
  seamless service and enable distributed agile
  manufacturing processes in the computer and other
  industries.

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Scheduling Coordination

• The DAML tools on the EC Gateway will apply agent
  technology in the coordination of production
  schedules with shipment logistics in the computer
  industry value chain.
• These agents will require a dynamic knowledge
  base (KB) to support rapid market responsiveness.

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Integrated Knowledge Base

• To build the required integrated KB, agents
  will be trained to apply appropriate Decision
  Support Systems (DSS) and Distributed Artificial
  Intelligence (DAI) techniques to production
  planning, supply chain integration, as well as
  concurrent scheduling and execution control in a
  dynamic manufacturing environment.

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Anticipated Benefits

• It is expected that the enhanced DAML EC Gateway
  will enable businesses to apply more efficient
  production methods and save more than 25 percent
  of their current logistical costs.