CSIRO's Decision technologies research group.

Decision technologies for the services economy

CSIRO’s decision technologies for the services economy help diverse businesses and industries to make more informed decisions.

• 1 February 2009 | Updated 14 October 2011

• Current research
• Disciplines 
• Working with industry

CSIRO’s research in this area enables decision makers in business and industry to understand their data in order to make reliable, productive, informed decisions.

The benefits we deliver include:

• substantially reduced business costs
• improvements to manufacturing or business processes
• smarter use of data
• enhanced operational decision-making.

Current research

We are addressing challenging problems in key projects including:

• Adaptive Supply Networks - using modelling and analytics to make complex multi-party decisions easier for participants in supply chains; using applied mathematics, operations research and statistical analysis to solve complex business optimisation problems such as rostering and materials design
  
  
• Computational Modelling - developing particle-based computational modelling methods for predicting the behaviour of solid, fluid and particle systems with applications ranging from movie animations to mineral processing
  
  
• Critical Infrastructure Protection - assessing the consequence of events that could impact Australia’s critical infrastructure and developing recovery plans
  
  
• Quantitative Risk Management - developing mathematical and statistical models to assess and manage risk in areas such as finance, banking, infrastructure protection and aerospace.

We conduct research in the following National Research Flagships including:

• Energy Transformed Flagship - optimising battery use for wind farms
• Light Metals Flagship- improving process control of aluminium production

Disciplines

We create analytical tools and technologies based on our expertise in:

• computational fluid dynamics
• mathematical modelling
• discrete event simulation
• optimisation
• statistical analysis
• operations research
• options pricing
• quantitative risk management.

With our experience in software engineering, the results of our research can be embedded in software designed to complement clients’ existing information systems.

Working with industry

We work with a wide variety of industries including:

• mineral processing
• finance
• manufacturing
• infrastructure
• aerospace
• defence
• animation.

Working with such diverse industries lets us leverage what we learn from one industry to solve problems for another.

Find out more about how CSIRO is supporting smarter information use, one of the Australian Government’s National Research Priorities at CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences.