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Detecting and characterizing community structure plays a crucial role in the study of networked systems. However, there is still a lack of understanding of how community structure affects the systems' resilience and stability. Here, we…

Resilience in coupled systems is increasingly critical in addressing global challenges such as climate change and pandemics. These systems show unpredictable behaviour due to dynamic complexity and deep uncertainty across spatiotemporal…

Just like power, water and transportation systems, wireless networks are a crucial societal infrastructure. As natural and human-induced disruptions continue to grow, wireless networks must be resilient to unforeseen events, able to…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Mehdi Bennis

Networks are at the core of modeling many engineering contexts, mainly in the case of infrastructures and communication systems. The resilience of a network, which is the property of the system capable of absorbing external shocks, is then…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Roy Cerqueti , Giovanna Ferraro , Antonio Iovanella

Resilience engineering studies the ability of a system to survive and recover from disruptive events, which finds applications in several domains. Most studies emphasize resilience metrics to quantify system performance, whereas recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-15 Karen da Mata , Priscila Silva , Lance Fiondella

Desirable system performance in the face of threats and disruptions has been characterized by various management concepts. Through semi-structured interviews with editors of journals in the fields of emergency response and systems…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-25 Stephanie Galaitsi , Benjamin D. Trump , Jeffrey M. Keisler , Igor Linkov

To enable integrating social equity considerations in infrastructure resilience assessments, this study created a new computational multi-agent simulation model which enables integrated assessment of hazard, infrastructure system, and…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Amir Esmalian , Wanqiu Wang , Ali Mostafavi

Engineering projects are the result of the combined effort of their members. Yet, it has been documented that labor division withing projects is unevenly distributed: some project members are specialists undertaking only few tasks, whereas…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Sebastiano A. Piccolo , Giorgio Terracina

Large scale power failures induced by severe weather have become frequent and damaging in recent years, causing millions of people to be without electricity service for days. Although the power industry has been battling weather-induced…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Chuanyi Ji , Yun Wei , H. Vincent Poor

The objective of this study is to propose a system-level framework with quantitative measures to assess the resilience of road networks. The framework proposed in this paper can help transportation agencies incorporate resilience…

Together with the spread of DevOps practices and container technologies, Microserivce Architecture has become a mainstream architecture style in recent years. Resilience is a key characteristic in Microservice Architecture Systems(MSA…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Kanglin Yin , Qingfeng Du

In studying resilience in temporal human networks, relying solely on global network measures would be inadequate; latent sub-structural network mechanisms need to be examined to determine the extent of impact and recovery of these networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Akhil Anil Rajput , Ali Mostafavi

Lifeline infrastructure underpins the continuity of daily life, yet conventional criticality assessments remain largely asset-centric, inferring importance from physical capacity or network topology rather than actual behavioral reliance.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Junwei Ma , Bo Li , Xiangpeng Li , Chenyue Liu , Ali Mostafavi

Demands on the disaster response capacity of the European Union are likely to increase, as the impacts of disasters continue to grow both in size and frequency. This has resulted in intensive research on issues concerning spatially-explicit…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-09-30 Dario Rodriguez-Aseretto , Christian Schaerer , Daniele de Rigo

Diverse sociocultural influences in rapidly growing dense urban areas may induce strain on civil services and reduce the resilience of those areas to exogenous and endogenous shocks. We present a novel approach with foundations in computer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Anthony Palladino , Elisa J. Bienenstock , Bradley M. West , Jake R. Nelson , Tony H. Grubesic

Street networks allow people and goods to move through cities, but they are vulnerable to disasters like floods, earthquakes, and terrorist attacks. Well-planned network design can make a city more resilient and robust to such disruptions,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-03-19 Geoff Boeing , Jaehyun Ha

Resilience is a system's ability to maintain its function when perturbations and errors occur. Whilst we understand low-dimensional networked systems' behavior well, our understanding of systems consisting of a large number of components is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-08 Giannis Moutsinas , Mengbang Zou , Weisi Guo

This paper presents a comprehensive review of community-centric power system resilience, emphasizing the integration of community-level resilience considerations and techno-legal governance frameworks with engineering-based resilience…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Masoud H. Nazari , Hamid Varmazyari , Antar Kumar Biswas , Umit Cali , Hollis Belnap , Masood Parvania

A key feature in self-adaptive systems is resilience, which is an ongoing research topic. Recently, the community started to explore antifragility, which describes the improvement of resilience over time. While there are model-agnostic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Ferdinand Koenig , Marc Carwehl , Calum Imrie

Many studies in economics deal with the non-reliability cost to assess insurance fees or investment analyses, but none takes into consideration the mechanical aspect of reliability analysis. Other studies in mechanics give some tools and…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2019-12-16 P-J. Tisserand , M. Ragueneau