This paper explains the fundamental concepts of resilience proposing a unified terminology and establishing a common frame of reference for quantitative evaluation of such seismic resilience. The evaluation is based on a non-dimensional analytical function based on loss recovery within a “recovery period”. Distinction is made between direct and indirect losses. The path to recovery is expressed...

The purpose of this paper is to apply network science to the field of resilience engineering. Starting with the trade-off between prepared versus deliberated knowledge, I argue that socio-technical systems are first and foremost networked systems that need to connect modules of prepared knowledge or instances of deliberated knowledge by means of protocols. I hypothesize that particular framewor...

Resilience is a challenging concept that is given many definitions and perspectives in the engineering infrastructure, systems engineering, and economic literatures. An emerging understanding of resilient systems is as a management principle or framework allowing for reconfiguration or adaptation in the face of threats or shocks. This is in contrast to the prevailing approach to engineered syst...

abstract nowadays, cities and communities have been established in places where are exposed to different disasters or due to technological progress are exposed to man-made incidents. the view to disaster management and urban management has been changed from response and mitigation to resilience and bounce back. resilience is a new concept which was introduced by hollings (1979) in ecology. this...

Software-intensive systems are becoming widely used in such critical infrastructures as railway, airand road traffic, power management, health care and banking. In spite of drastically increased complexity and need to operate in unpredictable volatile environment, high dependability remains a must for such systems. Resilience – the ability to deliver services that can be justifiably trusted des...

As the Internet becomes increasingly important to all aspects of society, the consequences of disruption become increasingly severe. Thus it is critical to increase the resilience and survivability of future networks. We define resilience as the ability of the network to provide desired service even when challenged by attacks, large-scale disasters, and other failures. This paper describes a co...

Resilience engineering concepts can complement proceduralization of complex sociotechnical systems (STS). Proceduralization aims at defining precise and quantified system objectives, and at defining a process that describes and prescribes how to achieve those objectives. Although proceduralization has been successfully implemented to capture knowledge and experience, it is limited when the unex...

As the Internet becomes increasingly important to all aspects of society, the consequences of disruption become increasingly severe. Thus it is critical to increase the resilience and survivability of future networks. We define resilience as the ability of the network to provide desired service even when challenged by attacks, large-scale disasters, and other failures. This paper describes a co...

Building resilience into today's complex infrastructures is critical to the daily functioning of society and its ability to withstand and recover from natural disasters, epidemics, and cyber-threats. This study proposes quantitative measures that capture and implement the definition of engineering resilience advanced by the National Academy of Sciences. The approach is applicable across physica...

"Resilience" in psychology is the positive capacity of people to cope with stress and adversity. This coping may result in the individual “bouncing back” to a previous state of normal functioning, or using the experience of exposure to adversity to produce a “steeling effect” and function better than expected (much like an inoculation gives one the capacity to cope well with future exposure to ...