One crucial contributor to the resilience and reliability of interactions with technical and sociotechnical systems is the resilience of users themselves. While the study of human factors has traditionally focused on the negative aspects or frailties of human performance, attention is increasingly turning to also consider the proactive and positive contributions human performance can make acros...

In this paper, we seek to explain the fundamental vulnerability of global value chains (GVCs) sudden shocks, as revealed by COVID-19 pandemic crisis, and outline ways for enhancing their adaptability increased uncertainty at both conceptual policy levels. We consider concept a typical multi-structural model GVCs, highlighting network complexity system distributed production trade in added. Not ...

Our modern life has grown to depend on many and nearly ubiquitous large complex engineering systems. Many disciplines now seemingly ask the same question: “In the face of assumed disruption, to what degree will these systems continue to perform and when will they bounce back to normal operation”. This presentation argues that multi-agent systems (MAS), as decentralized and intelligent control s...

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...

BACKGROUND Recent epidemiologic studies have found an increased risk of suicide among Veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom (OEF-OIF) with psychiatric disorders. However, little is known about whether variables other than psychiatric conditions, such as coping strategies, resilience, and social support, may be related to suicidality in this population. METHODS A total of 1...

Across U.S. regions, the idea that the resilient region of the future is an economically diverse one has gained increasing popularity. To diversify and adapt to change, many regional plans propose supporting knowledge-based sectors, such as biotechnology, and using livable, walkable (re)development to boost economic activity. This concern for resilience and its perceived connection to economic ...

We consider optimal execution strategies for block market orders placed in a limit order book (LOB). We build on the resilience model proposed by Obizhaeva and Wang (2005) but allow for a general shape of the LOB defined via a given density function. Thus, we can allow for empirically observed LOB shapes and obtain a nonlinear price impact of market orders. We distinguish two possibilities for ...