The current emphasis on Resilience Week and the International Symposium on Resilient Cognitive Systems highlights a growing awareness of the importance of designing and operating engineering systems under a variety of environmental conditions and in response to dynamic events. Although there has been considerable confusion and drift in the use of the term, ‘‘resilience’’ as a concept dates back...

The main objective of a water distribution network (WDN) is to deliver the required amount of water to the customer under a certain threshold of the desired pressure and quality. These networks are critical infrastructures that should face multiple and continuous changes and even abnormal events that alter their normal service provision. Water utility managers require modelling tools to be able...

The demand for multimedia applications along with rapid growth, the need for quality of service, reliability, and resilience have made traffic engineering an essential consideration in the design and operation of large public Internet backbone networks. In order for carriers to minimize the financial impact of inevitable link and network component failures, backbone protection solutions must be...

An important challenge for human societies is that of mastering the complexity of Community Resilience, namely “the sustained ability of a community to utilize available resources to respond to, withstand, and recover from adverse situations”. The above concise definition puts the accent on an important requirement: a community’s ability to make use in an intelligent way of the available resour...

Resilience is becoming a prevalent agenda in safety research and organisational practice. In this study we examine how the peer-reviewed safety science literature (a) formulates the rationale behind the study of resilience; (b) constructs resilience as a scientific object; and (c) constructs and locates the resilient subject. The results suggest that resilience engineering scholars typically mo...

Rising interest in the resilience of ecological systems has spawned diverse interpretations of the term's precise meaning. This paper classifies and explores definitions of resilience from the ecological literature using a dynamical systems framework. A model consisting of ordinary differential equations is assumed to represent the ecological system. The question " resilience of what to what? "...

Over the past decade, the concept of resilience has gained momentum in climate change and disaster research. Although the relevance of resilience in dealing with environmental changes has been acknowledged by these communities, an impasse in research occurs when trying to extract the crux of resilience and transform it into an implementable entity in vulnerability assessments and information sy...