Biologistics and the struggle for efficiency: Concepts and perspectives
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In: Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 12, No. 6, 12.2009, p. 533-548.
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T1 - Biologistics and the struggle for efficiency
T2 - Concepts and perspectives
AU - Helbing, Dirk
AU - Deutsch, Andreas
AU - Diez, Stefan
AU - Peters, Karsten
AU - Kalaidzidis, Yannis
AU - Padberg-Gehle, Kathrin
AU - Lämmer, Stefan
AU - Johansson, Anders
AU - Breier, Georg
AU - Schulze, Frank
AU - Zerial, Marino
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - The growth of world population, limitation of resources, economic problems, and environmental issues force engineers to develop increasingly efficient solutions for logistic systems. Pure optimization for efficiency, however, has often led to technical solutions that are vulnerable to variations in supply and demand, and to perturbations. In contrast, nature already provides a large variety of efficient, flexible, and robust logistic solutions. Can we utilize biological principles to design systems, which can flexibly adapt to hardly predictable, fluctuating conditions? We propose a bio-inspired "BioLogistics" approach to deduce dynamic organization processes and principles of adaptive self-control from biological systems, and to transfer them to man-made logistics (including nanologistics), using principles of modularity, self-assembly, self-organization, and decentralized coordination. Conversely, logistic models can help revealing the logic of biological processes at the systems level.
AB - The growth of world population, limitation of resources, economic problems, and environmental issues force engineers to develop increasingly efficient solutions for logistic systems. Pure optimization for efficiency, however, has often led to technical solutions that are vulnerable to variations in supply and demand, and to perturbations. In contrast, nature already provides a large variety of efficient, flexible, and robust logistic solutions. Can we utilize biological principles to design systems, which can flexibly adapt to hardly predictable, fluctuating conditions? We propose a bio-inspired "BioLogistics" approach to deduce dynamic organization processes and principles of adaptive self-control from biological systems, and to transfer them to man-made logistics (including nanologistics), using principles of modularity, self-assembly, self-organization, and decentralized coordination. Conversely, logistic models can help revealing the logic of biological processes at the systems level.
KW - Bio-inspired solutions
KW - Logistics
KW - Modularity
KW - Robustness
KW - Self-control
KW - Transportation
KW - Didactics of Mathematics
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U2 - 10.1142/S0219525909002374
DO - 10.1142/S0219525909002374
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:73949155431
VL - 12
SP - 533
EP - 548
JO - Advances in Complex Systems
JF - Advances in Complex Systems
SN - 0219-5259
IS - 6
ER -