Typical Scenario: Logistics
A general has to ship troops and/or various material from L.A. to Washington DC:
- different kind of material: criteria for preferred transport differ
- not every airport equally suited
- congestion, prices
- actual weather
- certain due or ready dates
Today: calling different companies, looking up information on the web, reservations by hand
Tomorrow: system proposes possibilities that take into account various conditions
- hand-coded systems
- composition of processes