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Biologistics And The Struggle For Efficiency: Concepts And Perspectives

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  • DIRK HELBING

    (ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland;
    Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA;
    Collegium Budapest — Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary)

  • ANDREAS DEUTSCH

    (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

  • STEFAN DIEZ

    (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

  • KARSTEN PETERS

    (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

  • YANNIS KALAIDZIDIS

    (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

  • KATHRIN PADBERG-GEHLE

    (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

  • STEFAN LÄMMER

    (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

  • ANDERS JOHANSSON

    (ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland)

  • GEORG BREIER

    (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

  • FRANK SCHULZE

    (Dresden University of Technology, Germany)

  • MARINO ZERIAL

    (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)

Abstract

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.

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  • Dirk Helbing & Andreas Deutsch & Stefan Diez & Karsten Peters & Yannis Kalaidzidis & Kathrin Padberg-Gehle & Stefan Lämmer & Anders Johansson & Georg Breier & Frank Schulze & Marino Zerial, 2009. "Biologistics And The Struggle For Efficiency: Concepts And Perspectives," Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 12(06), pages 533-548.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:acsxxx:v:12:y:2009:i:06:n:s0219525909002374
    DOI: 10.1142/S0219525909002374
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