WP 8: Real Case Studies

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WP 8 Real Case Studies
www.agreement-technologies.org
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WP8 Real Case Studies (Leader Vicent Botti
UPV)
CSIC URJ UPV Total
WP8 Real Case Studies (Leader Vicent Botti UPV) WP8 Real Case Studies (Leader Vicent Botti UPV) 57 84 36 204
Task 8.1. eProcurement Demonstrator (Leader Juan Antonio Rodriguez) 45 6 78
Task 8.2 mWater Demonstrator (Leader V.Botti) 6 6 36 48
Task 8.3 mHealth demonstrator (Leader Holger Billhardt) 6 72 78
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WP8 Real Case Studies

• Goal
• Test beds for the research results and algorithms
  developed in the theoretical work packages.
• Central to this work package shall be the common
  methodology and tools produced in WP6.
• Method
• develop all demonstrators as evolutionary
  prototypes
• develop the demonstrators through several
  iterations
• involve the Demonstration Advisory Boards as
  reviewers.
• Guides
• (i) to help team members to join the developers
  team or show the demonstrator at any time
• (ii) ease technology transfer (from the software
  development and commercial perspectives).
• We defend that this strategy is compulsory if we
  intend to exploit our demonstrators as part of
  our technology transfer strategy

Requirements
Design
Implementation
Review
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Schedule
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Juan A. Rodriguez-Aguilar jar_at_iiia.csic.es
Task 8.3 eProcurement demonstrator WP8 Real
case studies AT-kickoff meeting Barcelona,
February 4-5, 2008
www.agreement-technologies.org
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eProcurement demonstrator
Overview

• Motivation and goals
• Proposed scenario
• Why agreement technologies?
• Planning

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Motivation

• The organisational structure of enterprises is
  changing
• Increment of outsourced activity
• From monolithic to collaborative structures that
  tend to reduce their size

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Chinese Motorbike Industry

• Small companies collaborate and self-organise
• They meet in online places and coffee shops
• A self-organising system of design and production

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Motivation

• Business partners are moving from the roles of
  suppliers, manufacturers, and customers to the
  role of collaborators
• In this environment, the choice of the best
  business partners is critical

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Goals

• Companies are in need for
• Support to swiftly create business collaborations
  that allow them to readily respond to chaning
  market needs
• Tools that allow them to quickly react to
  exceptions so that their goals can still be
  achieved.

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Proposed scenario

• Supply chain automation

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Why agreement technologies?

• Negotiation
• Supply chain formation and reconfiguration
  require agreements among self-interested partners
• Trust
• Fundamental to achieve robust supply chains that
  prevent failures
• Norms and organisations
• The result of agreements take the shape of norms
  or organisations

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eProcurement Advisory Board

• Javier Aróstegui, Director General of iSOCO,
  S.A., and President of the B2B Committee of the
  Asociación Española de Comercio Electrónico
• Mariano Tristán, Procurement Manager at Lilly
  Group
• Xavier Salrà, Consulting Manager for the Public
  Sector at Hewlett-Packard
• Rafel Bernadas, ITC Coordinator, Economy and
  Finance Departament, Generalitat de Catalunya

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V.Botti
Task 8.2 mWater Demonstrator
www.agreement-technologies.org
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Task 8.2 mWater Demonstrator
Motivation. The mWater demonstrator addresses
scenarios where there are conflicts over
different basin waters, in many cases, caused by
potential or actual water scarcity.
Objectives. The mWater demonstrator has the
goal of providing an efficient allocation of
water resources based on a system of voluntary
trade in water, which brings potentially large
benefits to all parties involved.
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Why agreement technologies?

• Politic Level
• Behavior Simulation
• Evaluation of different estrategies
• Agreement (Decision) Support System?
• Norms, Organizations, Trust, Negotiation
• Water distribution management
• Water flow negotiation
• Time Schedule
• Cost
• Water Flow Management System?
• Norms, Organizations, Trust, Negotiation

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mWater Advisory Board

• Joaquín Andreu Álvarez, Technical Director of the
  Confederación Hidrográfica del Júcar.
• Emeritus Professor Uri Shamir, President,
  International Union of Geodesy and
  Geophysics(IUGG), Stephen and Nancy Grand Water
  Research Institute, Technion - Israel Institute
  of Technology.
• Luís Garrote de Marco, Catedrático de
  Universidad. Departamento de Ingeniería Civil
  Hidráulica y Energética. Universidad Politécnica
  de Madrid.
• Manuel Echeberría, subdirector general de
  programación técnica y científica, Centro de
  Estudio y experimentación de obras públicas.

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Holger Billhardt holger.billhardt_at_urjc.es
Task 8.3 mHealth demonstrator WP8 Real case
studies AT-kickoff meeting Barcelona, February
4-5, 2008
www.agreement-technologies.org
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mHealth demonstrator
Overview

• Introduction Aims and scope
• Proposed scenario
• Why agreement technologies?
• Planning

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Introduction

• WP8 Real case studies
• Objectives
• Test beds for the research results and algorithms
  developed in the theoretical work packages
• Apply the common methodology and the tools
  produced in WP6 (Tool suite).
• Based on the software architecture and the
  Multiagent system platform developed in WP7
• Methodology
• Evolutionary prototypes through several
  iterations
• Demonstration Advisory board
• Expected outcome
• Usable software (technology transfer)
• Programmers and demonstrators guide

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Introduction

• mHealth demonstrator
• Medical emergency assistance for people on the
  move
• Motivation
• Requires on-the-fly agreements among
  heterogeneous organizations
• Practical relevance
• Bias towards health applications
• Added value for tourist services

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Proposed Scenario

1. Alice and Bob are tourists from Germany. They
   carry a PDA, already equipped with the mHealth
   agent suite. Suddenly, Alice is seriously
   suffering from pain in the upper part of her body
   which is unknown to her.

1. After activation of the PDA, Alice uses the
   device to quickly find the nearest hospital next
   to them. The agent on the PDA also supplies them
   with information on how to get there.

1. The physician may require some data from Alice
   medical record. Bob contacts Alice home
   hospital, directly or through some Emergency
   Medical Assistance service (EMA), in order to
   obtain the data.

1. The physician is not sure about the diagnosis and
   wants to obtain a second opinion. He accesses a
   second opinion service by forwarding all
   information available so far.

1. The second opinion service provider asks some
   details to the local physician. They all come to
   the conclusion that Alice needs an urgent
   surgical operation. The hospital doesnt have the
   required equipment, so they decide to transfer
   Alice to another hospital in Spain.

1. Bob contacts Alice health insurance company to
   inform them about the proposed treatment and to
   ask for the corresponding authorization.

1. The hospital agent contacts other hospitals in
   the area in order to find a suitable hospital for
   Alice treatment. Furthermore, it passes Alice
   medical data to the new hospital and arranges her
   transfer with a local ambulance company.

1. Finally, Alice is transferred and operated. After
   two weeks of recovery Alice uses her PDA to send
   a Thank you to all the people involved with her
   medical case .

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Why agreement technologies?

• Semantics
• Ad-hoc communication between different
  organizations
• Heterogeneous representation
• languages for data and services
• Heterogeneous descriptions of
• services and data

E.g. medical record data exchange
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Why agreement technologies?

• Argumentation and negotiation
• Requires agreements among
• independent organizations

E.g. find a hospital for a Alice treatment
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Why agreement technologies?

• Trust
• Health is a trust sensitive domain

E.g. ask for a second opinion
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Why agreement technologies?

• Norms and Organizations
• To define the relationships among participating
  organizations
• Efficient teamwork among participants
• Agreement planning

E.g. arrange Alice transfer to
another hospital
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Planning

• First steps
• To define the concrete application scenario
• Basically in cooperation with Fuenlabrada Public
  Hospital
• Comments/questions
• The envisioned international scenario is
  interesting but difficult to implement
• Maybe we should concentrate on a smaller rather
  local scenario
• Closer to real world
• Higher possibility for technology transfer
  (commercial perspective)
• Team
• Holger Billhardt (Leader)
• PhD student
• URJC team