This paper describes an approach to extend process modeling for engineering design applications with fault-tolerance and resilience capabilities. It is based on the requirements for application-level error handling, which is a requirement for petascale and exascale scientific computing. This complements the traditional fault-tolerance management features provided by the existing hardware and di...

Title of Document: ADVANCES IN SYSTEM RELIABILITY-BASED DESIGN AND PROGNOSTICS AND HEALTH MANAGEMENT (PHM) FOR SYSTEM RESILIENCE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN. Chao Hu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Dr. Byeng D. Youn, Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering. Failures of engineered systems can lead to significant economic and societal losses. Despite tremendous efforts (e.g., $...

Selection of acceptable seismic risk revolves around significant societal and engineering concerns. One approach relies on cost-effective quantitative enhancement of seismic resilience for critical structures and systems. A Center perspective can provide a coordinated research framework to develop the advanced knowledge and technologies needed to develop the integrated engineering tools, decisi...

Resilience engineering strives to build the adaptive capacity of systems that is essential to continue operations in the face of substantial challenges. The healthcare enterprise provides a compelling opportunity to consider resilience as a desirable trait of systems. Clinicians, from physicians to nurses and technicians, are a source of resilience and develop and rely on artifacts from status ...

The paper presents key findings from the research project “Building Safety”. Building Safety aims to generate knowledge for building resilient operational organizations for petroleum production in the northern regions. The results of the study should serve as input for Eni Norge, in their current preparation for petroleum production at the Goliat field in the Barents Sea. The paper presents how...

This research contributes to extend Business Process Management (BPM) systems with resilience support. We applied concepts derived from resilience engineering and the study of hazards in highly reliable organizations to characterize resilient BPM. We developed a resilience framework based on two criteria, control, which may be prescriptive, mixed or discretionary, and response, considering plan...

The Internet has become essential to all aspects of modern life, and thus the consequences of network disruption have become increasingly severe. It is widely recognised that the Internet is not sufficiently resilient, survivable, and dependable, and that significant research, development, and engineering is necessary to improve the situation. This paper provides an architectural framework for ...

A conceptual framework which defines the seismic resilience of communities and quantitative measures of resilience in a manner that can be useful for a coordinated research effort focusing on enhancing this resilience is one of the main themes at the Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering Research (MCEER). This framework relies on the complementary measures of resilience: “Reduced ...