INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATION

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INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATION

• Sanat Kumar Bista
• S.K.Bista_at_Bradford.ac.uk
• M.Phil leading to PhD
• Supervisor(s)
• Dr. Keshav Dahal (UB)
• Prof. Bhadra Man Tuladhar (KU)
• Prof. Peter I Cowling (UB)

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Self Introduction

• Name Sanat Kumar Bista
• Qualification M.Tech (IT), magna cum laude
• B.Engg (Computer), First Class
• From Nepal
• Working as Lecturer,
• Computer Science Engg Dept.
  Kathmandu University, Nepal

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Self Introduction...

• Founder Member and Leader of
• InformatioN and Language Processing Research
  Lab(NLP).
• http//nlp.ku.edu.np
• Current and Significant Research Grants
• 1. PAN Asia ICT RD Grant, Competition Round
  November 2004
• Project English to Nepali Machine
  Translation
• Status Project Leader
• 2. Localization Project
• Funded by IDRC, Canada
• Participating Nations Afghanistan,
  Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Laos,
  Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka.
• Status Project Leader (KU)
• Project Localized Operating System and
  Desktop applications in Nepali

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Some Publications

• B. Keshari, J. Bhatta and S.K. Bista. Nepali
  Part-of-Speech Guesser and Its Application in
  Lexicon Building. Proceedings of the
  International Conference On Natural Language
  Processing, ICON-2005, IIT Kanpur, India, 2005.
• B. Keshari, J. Bhatta and S.K. Bista. Handling
  Honorification in Dobahse Online
  English-to-Nepali Machine Translation System.
  Proceedings of Third Asian Applied Computing
  Conference (AACC - 2005), Kathmandu, Nepal, 2005.
  
• Y.P. Yadava, G R Bhattarai, S. K. Bista,  B.
  Keshari and  J. Bhatta, Envisioning Machine
  Translation for the New Millennium Outlines of
  Preliminary Steps in Nepal. Contemporary Issues
  in Nepalese Linguistics, ed. by Yogendra P.
  Yadava et al., pages 429-439, Linguistics Society
  of Nepal, 2005. 
• S.K. Bista, B. Keshari, J. Bhatta and K.Parajuli,
  Dobhase online English to Nepali Machine
  Translation System, In the proceedings of the
  26th Annual conference of the Linguistic Society
  of Nepal, December 2005.
• B. Keshari and S.K. Bista, UNL Nepali
  Deconverter. International-CALIBER 2005, Kochi,
  India, 2005.
• Bhim Prasad Upadhyaya, Birendra Keshari and Sanat
  Kumar Bista, Morphological Analyser for Nepali
  Language. Reserch KU-CSE-1-20005, Dept. of CSE,
  Kathmandu University, Kathmandu, January 2005.
  (Internal Technical Report)
• S.K. Bista, and B.Keshari. Standardization issues
  in Localization, Proceedings of the 5th CAN ICT
  International Conference, January 2005, Nepal.
• S.K. Bista, and B. Keshari, Research Techniques
  for a new keyboard layout design, Workshop on
  Keyboard layout Design, Nepal.2004.

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Research Idea

• Inspired by my Masters Thesis work carried out
  at Fraunhofer-IPSI, Germany
• Supervisor Dr. Andreas Wombacher
• I worked in Business Processing Language,
• esp. Subsumption checking in Xpath string
  expressions for its use in Match Making.
• and, Unification under boolean rings and abelian
  groups.

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Research Idea...

• Key Words
• Supply Chain
• Supply Chain Management
• Supply Chain Integration and Collaboration
• Virtual Organizations
• Agent
• Grid
• P2P for knowledge Grid

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Supply Chain... definitions

• a supply chain is defined as a set of three or
  more entities (organizations or individuals)
  directly involved in the upstream and downstream
  flows of products, services, finances, and/or
  information from a source to a customer
• supply chain management is a systemic, strategic
  coordination of the traditional business
  functions and the tactics across these business
  functions within a particular company and across
  businesses within the supply chain, for the
  purposes of improving the long-term performance
  of the individual companies and the supply chain
  as a whole
• --Mentzer J.T et al (2001)

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Supply Chain...
Fig. Direct Supply Chain
Fig. Extended Supply Chain
Fig. Ultimate Supply chain
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SC Past, Present and Future
Morris Cohen, Matsuhita professor of
Manufacturing and Logistics Wharton Business
school
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SourceInternet Capital Group
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B2B to B2P A motivating Scenario

• Customer Design
• Customers might someday be able to go to a web
  site, put together their own car from a single
  manufacturer or even mix and match components
  from different manufacturers.

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Some Questions???

• Given the challenges of fit and feel in complex
  products such as autos, is this scenario likely
  to happen at all?
• How quickly might this happen?
• What factors will influence how it evolves? And
  what impact will it have on the design and
  production of commodities?
• ________________
• some success stories are already there (eg. DELL
  Custom Factory Integration)

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How to... philosophy

• Cross the boundary of organisation.
• ? Think Globally, Manufacture Locally
• ?Contract Manufacturing

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How to... the problem

• Globalisation, contract manufacturing, new
  small-scale manufacturing technologies and better
  information flows are creating opportunities to
  bring manufacturing out of the large centers and
  closer to home.
• But how will it evolve?
• What technology will this rely on?
• How can companies choose suppliers quickly or
  even transport manufacturing facilities across
  borders to new locations in the supply chain?

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How to... technology

• VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS

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Virtual Oraganisations (VO)

• Definition
• VO refers to both the members of a switchable
  interorganizational electronic network and to the
  network itself that delivers non-standard
  products
• B. Travica(2005)

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Virtual Organisations
Virtual Oraganisations (VO)

• Virtual organisations (VOs) are composed of a
  number of autonomous entities (representing
  different individuals, departments and
  organisations) each of which has a range of
  problem solving capabilities and resources at
  their disposal.
• These entities co-exist and sometimes compete
  with one another in a ubiquitous virtual market
  place.
• Each entity attempts to attract the attention of
  potential customers and ultimately tries to sell
  them its services by describing the cost and
  quality of the service.

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VO... how

• Key concepts and Technology
• Peer to Peer Communication
• Agents
• Grid

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Grid

• Grid computing is a computing model that provides
  the ability to perform higher throughput
  computing by taking advantage of many networked
  computers to model a virtual computer
  architecture that is able to distribute process
  execution across a parallel infrastructure.
• Source Wikipedia
• Grids use the resources of many separate
  computers connected by a network (usually the
  Internet) to solve large-scale computation
  problems.
• The Grid concept
• coordinated resource sharing and problem solving
  in dynamic, multi-institutional virtual
  organisations
• Foster et al 2001

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Agents

• An agent can be defined as a computer system that
  is suited in some environment, and that is
  capable of autonomous action in this environment
  in order to meet its design objective.
• -M. Wooldrige et al (1995)

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Agent and Grid

• Brain Meets Brawn
• -Foster et al (2004)

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Virtual Organizations
Virtual Oraganisations (VO)
Source Agents at Aberdeen
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Source CONOISE-G
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Sanya et al (2003)
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Questions guiding future work

• ARCHITECTURE
• How to design and develop agents?
• i.e Whats the agent internal acrchitecture?
• How to manage agents?
• i.e Whats the Run Time Infrastructure?

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Questions guiding future work

• MODELING
• How to abstract Supply Chain System and model it
  through agent(s)?

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Questions guiding future work

• COORDINATION
• How to coordinate, cooperate and even compete
  among these agents to achieve common and
  respective objectives of a Supply Chain in a
  Virtual Organization?

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Questions guiding future work

• APPLICATION
• How to design a solution package based on Gird
  and Agents that is scalable enough to suit the
  industrial need?

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Future Work... architecture
Application Specific Services SCIC
High Level
Generic Agent Services
Agent Interoperability Infrastructure
Middle Level
ResourceService Agents
Connectivity Protocols and API
Low Level
Fabric Protocols and API
Based on Grid Anatomy Foster et al (2001)
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Future Work... prototype
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Thank You!!!