From beringer@DB.Stanford.EDU Wed Aug 5 18:17:23 1998 Received: from db.stanford.edu (Seaotter.Stanford.EDU [171.64.75.89]) by DB.Stanford.EDU (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09743 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 18:17:19 -0700 Message-ID: <35C9047A.C7202C5@db.stanford.edu> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1998 18:18:50 -0700 From: Dorothea Beringer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chaims@DB.Stanford.EDU Subject: minutes Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 1352 Minutes weekly meeting 8/5/98 ============================== Agenda[ Application domains of CHAIMS: more precise examples Minutes[ Application domain: Supply Chain Management Examples: Vendors: a,b,c with megamodules a1, a2, a3 (mirror copies, accessible by different protocols),b,c Additional megmaodule: or (for finding best offers), mediator (for compatibility problems among data format) a,b,c offer methods: bid, offer (with results: cost, delivery dates, quality, quantity, percent success, size of drives), order Method of or: optimize_cost (input: product estimates, output product orders); this is a decision support module Megaprogram example (slightly enhanced by me): in a later mail. Certain optimization has to be coded into megaprogram. Invocation scheduling is done automatically. Estimate would be used for two kind of optimizations: - invocation scheduling - coded into megaprogram, .e.g. for method "bid" ==> megaprogram gets estimate for time to get binding offer, and gets bid, and based on that decides to wait for that provider or not. Laurence and Guido are going to describe an example for supply-chain-management into more detail. Ron: makes an example about numerical analysis. -- Dorothea Beringer Stanford University beringer@db.stanford.edu http://www-db.stanford.edu/people/beringer.html --