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Towards a Contemporary Design Framework for Systems-of-Systems Resilience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2022

K. M. Dreesbeimdiek ,
C.-M. von Behr ,
C. Brayne  and
P. J. Clarkson
K. M. Dreesbeimdiek*
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
C.-M. von Behr
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
C. Brayne
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
P. J. Clarkson
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
*
kmd46@cam.ac.uk

Abstract

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In an increasingly interconnected world, changes of uncertain nature and impact affect the functioning of human societies that depend on health, ecological, and economic systems. The proposed framework for systems-of-systems resilience explains ways of accommodating and responding to these challenges while encompassing the interfaces of the health, environment, and economy domains and their effect on communities. Resilience is defined as a continuous process and we distinguish between four system properties, five resilience capacities, and a variety of system activities.

Keywords

resiliencesystems engineering (SE)complex systemssocio-technical systemscharacteristics and properties

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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 2: DESIGN2022 , May 2022 , pp. 1835 - 1844
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