Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140103643

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140103643

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Risky Business: Using biological systems to mitigate risk in supply chains and transportation networks. In an uncertain world, resilient supply chains are crucial for getting products and services to consumers. However, the algorithms used to design and manage supply chains are inadequate to deal with the increasingly complex and self-organised nature of modern supply chains. This project will look to nature for new solutions to supply chain design and management problems. Natural systems are highly resilient against perturbations and damage. They have had millions of years to evolve efficient solutions to the same problems currently facing supply chains. Using experiments on ants and slime moulds. This project will uncover the secrets of biological resilience, and use this insight to develop new algorithms for supply chain design and management.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 06-06-2014

End Date: 31-12-2018

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $490,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Road Transportation and Freight Services | Ecology | Behavioural Ecology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural Ecology | Ecology | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Road Transportation and Freight Services

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