Biologistics and the struggle for efficiency: Concepts and perspectives

Advances in Complex Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 533-548

  Helbing, Dirk ^a,b,c   Deutsch, Andreas ^d   Diez, Stefan ^e   Peters, Karsten ^d   Kalaidzidis, Yannis ^e   Padberg Gehle, Kathrin ^d   Lämmer, Stefan ^d   Johansson, Anders ^a   Breier, Georg ^d   Schulze, Frank ^d   Zerial, Marino ^e  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bio inspired solutions; Logistics; Modularity; Robustness; Self control; Transportation

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949155431     PISSN: 02195259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525909002374     Document Type: Article

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