Development of a validated tool to help manage the risk of human fatigue in the workplace. Our world has embraced many benefits of the 24-hour society. However, these benefits can not be delivered without the costs: one significant cost is human fatigue. A recent federal parliamentary inquiry recommended that a fatigue risk management approach be applied to the regulation of working hours within industry. A key requirement of such an approach, and the aim of the proposed project, is to develo ....Development of a validated tool to help manage the risk of human fatigue in the workplace. Our world has embraced many benefits of the 24-hour society. However, these benefits can not be delivered without the costs: one significant cost is human fatigue. A recent federal parliamentary inquiry recommended that a fatigue risk management approach be applied to the regulation of working hours within industry. A key requirement of such an approach, and the aim of the proposed project, is to develop a scientifically validated tool to help manage the work-related fatigue associated with hours-of-work. Ultimately, this will reduce the costs of our 24-hour society on employees, their families, organisations and the wider community.Read moreRead less
Modelling the Development and Evolution of Business Relations and Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems using Agent Based Models. This research develops models that will allow managers and policy makers to play more effective roles in the development and evolution of collaborative business relations and networks that lead to greater efficiency, industry innovation, and firm competitiveness, which is a key focus of corporate management and government trade and industry policy. It will also enhance ....Modelling the Development and Evolution of Business Relations and Networks as Complex Adaptive Systems using Agent Based Models. This research develops models that will allow managers and policy makers to play more effective roles in the development and evolution of collaborative business relations and networks that lead to greater efficiency, industry innovation, and firm competitiveness, which is a key focus of corporate management and government trade and industry policy. It will also enhance Australia's resources and expertise in understanding and modelling complex adaptive systems, help develop education resources and training programs for practitioners and researchers in this fast growing area of theory and research, strengthen links with leading researchers and centres, and produce a doctorate in the area.Read moreRead less
Applying the Lessons of the Virtual Battlefield to Financial Modelling - Investigating Innovative use of Distributed Simulation. The development of Distributed Simulations is recognised as an increasingly important part of training, scientific modelling and acquisitions in the defense community. While the benefits of simulation are well understood the actual development costs and complexity remain prohibitive, requiring expert programming skills and training. These limitations are greatly impedi ....Applying the Lessons of the Virtual Battlefield to Financial Modelling - Investigating Innovative use of Distributed Simulation. The development of Distributed Simulations is recognised as an increasingly important part of training, scientific modelling and acquisitions in the defense community. While the benefits of simulation are well understood the actual development costs and complexity remain prohibitive, requiring expert programming skills and training. These limitations are greatly impeding the wider adoption of simulation in the broader business community.
To address these issues this proposal investigates the means of applying simulation technologies to a domain in which user-configurable desktop tools, such as spreadsheets and word processors, are more the norm - for example financial modelling.
We aim to extend the development of tools and techniques that support the desktop use of simulation and to assess the relative merits of these approaches. Our eventual goal is to provide approachable simulation services, without adversely compromising their inherent power, to a far wider range of application domains.
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