Resilience analysis: a mathematical formulation to model resilience of engineering systems

Engineering Resilience versus Ecological Resilience

Ecological science has been shaped largely by the biological sciences. Environmental science, on the other hand, has been shaped largely by the physical sciences and engineering. With the beginning of interdisciplinary efforts between the two fields, some of the fundamental differences between them are generating conflicts caused more by misunderstanding of basic concepts than by any difference...

Engineering End-to-End IP Resilience Using Resilience-Differentiated QoS

Network resilience is becoming a key issue in the design of IP-based multimedia and multiservice networks. The current discussion about IP network resilience centers around MPLSbased recovery mechanisms. Any well designed recovery strategy has to take into account the different resilience requirements of the single traffic flows in order to avoid excessive usage of bandwidth for standby links. ...

Guidelines for Resilience Systems Analysis

Bridging Resilience Engineering and Human Reliability Analysis

There has been strong interest in the new and emerging field called resilience engineering. This field has been quick to align itself with many existing safety disciplines, but it has also distanced itself from the field of human reliability analysis. To date, the discussion has been somewhat onesided, with much discussion about the new insights afforded by resilience engineering. This paper pr...

Concurrent Optimization of Patients’ Trust and Integrated Resilience Engineering: A Z-Number Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

Background and Objectives: Emergency departments often encounter several risk and health issues which significantly impact on overall healthcare performance. Resilience engineering (RE) enables emergency departments to confront sudden changes and handling health risk issues. Patient trust (PT) is also one of the most effective factors which improve quality of care along with pa...