It has been realized that resilience as a concept involves several contradictory definitions, both for instance resilience as agile adjustment and as robust resistance to situations. Our analysis of resilience concepts and models suggest that beyond simplistic definitions, it is possible to draw up a systemic resilience model (SyRes) that maintains these opposing characteristics without contrad...

Disruption is an inevitable factor in business and society, while inability to mitigate manage risk can cause irreparable damage business, the economy, our ways of life. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened interest standards-based strategies for management crisis preparedness enhance organizational societal resilience. University curricula that integrate national international standards offer ...

Our research focuses on developing System Importance Measures (SIMs) to characterize resilience. Our measures are applicable to systems and systems-of-systems that are characterized by diversity in nodes and functions. The system importance measures help identify and rank components or systems that have the most impact on different aspects of the overall resilience. Because systems-of-systems (...

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...

Suicide prevention efforts in reducing risk factors have been found to be more beneficial to older women than men, suggesting potential gender differences in effective prevention. The study aimed to examine gender difference in resilience for suicidal behavior in a community sample of older adults in Korea. A community-based survey was conducted to investigate resilience and risk factors of sui...

Disruption to routines is an increasingly common part of everyday life. With the roots some disruptions in interconnectedness world and environmental socio-political instability, there good reason believe that conditions cause widespread disruption will persist. Individuals, communities, systems are thus challenged engage resilience practices deal with both acute chronic disruption. Our interes...