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

DS 116: Proceedings of the DESIGN2022 17th International Design Conference

Year: 2022
Editor: Mario Štorga, Stanko Škec, Tomislav Martinec, Dorian Marjanović
Author: Kaya M. Dreesbeimdiek, Carl-Magnus Von Behr, Carol Brayne, P. John Clarkson
Series: DESIGN
Institution: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Section: Systems Engineering and Design
Page(s): 1835-1844
DOI number: https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2022.186
ISSN: 2732-527X (Online)

Abstract

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: resilience, systems engineering (SE), complex systems, socio-technical systems, characteristics and properties