Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface or How This Book Came Into Being -- Acknowledgment -- 1 Introduction - On Resilience -- 1.1 The Multidisciplinary Challenge -- 1.2 The Concept of the System -- 1.3 The Paradox of Humans in the System -- 1.4 The Infrastructure as a System -- 1.5 The Architecture of a System -- 1.6 Disruptions -- 1.7 Adaptability -- 1.8 Culture -- 1.9 Measuring Resilience -- 1.10 The Challenges -- 1.11 Identification of Resilience Techniques -- 1.12 Evaluation of Resilience Techniques Through Case Studies -- 1.13 Evaluation of the Techniques -- 1.13.1 Reasoning -- 1.13.2 Case Studies -- 1.13.3 Usefulness -- 1.14 What Is a Technique? -- 1.15 How Statements of Resilience Techniques are Synthesized -- References -- 2 Resilience Literature -- 3 Terms and Definitions -- 3.1 Objective -- 3.2 What Is an Adversity? -- 3.3 Traditional Definitions of Resilience -- 3.4 A Brief Lesson in Abstractions -- 3.4.1 Definitions -- 3.4.2 Why Use Abstractions? -- 3.5 General features -- 3.5.1 Rules for Conversion from Concrete Entity to Abstraction or Vice Versa -- 3.5.2 Example: The Functional Redundancy Technique -- 3.6 Glossary of Symbols and Mathematical Characters -- References -- 4 Resilience Abstractions -- 4.1 Objective -- 4.2 What Is System Resilience? -- 4.3 Traditional Definitions of Resilience -- 4.4 Encounter -- 4.4.1 Definitions -- 4.5 Abstraction Properties -- 4.6 Concrete Entities -- 4.6.1 Example: The Functional Redundancy Technique -- 4.6.2 What Have We Learned in this Section? -- Reference -- 5 Methodology -- 5.1 Overview of Methodology -- 5.2 Qualitative Research -- 5.3 Qualitative Interpretation of Solutions Proposed by Domain Experts -- 5.4 Qualitative Judgments of Dependencies Among Resilience Techniques -- 5.5 Qualitative Judgments of Grouping of Resilience Techniques.

5.6 Interpretation of Historical Events -- 5.7 Objectives of System Resilience -- Reference -- 6 Techniques -- 6.1 The Robustness Attribute -- 6.2 The Absorption Design Technique -- 6.2.1 Context Spanning -- 6.2.2 Dictionary Definitions -- 6.2.3 Reasoning Supporting the Absorption Design Technique -- 6.2.4 The Absorption Design Technique, Support Techniques, and Their Sources -- 6.2.5 The Acceptability of the Absorption Design Technique -- 6.2.6 Substantiation of the Absorption Design Technique by Case Studies -- 6.2.7 Usefulness of the Absorption Design Technique in the State Analysis -- 6.2.8 General Evaluation of the Absorption Design Technique -- 6.3 The Physical Redundancy Design Technique -- 6.3.1 Physical Redundancy Definition -- 6.3.2 Reasoning Supporting the Physical Redundancy Technique -- 6.3.3 The Physical Redundancy Design Technique and its Sources -- 6.3.4 Acceptability of the Physical Redundancy Design Technique -- 6.3.5 Substantiation of the Physical Redundancy Design Technique by Case Studies -- 6.3.6 Usefulness of the Physical Redundancy Design Technique -- 6.3.7 Usefulness of the Physical Redundancy Design Technique in Combination with Other Resilience Techniques -- 6.3.8 Dependency of the Physical Redundancy Technique on Other Resilience Techniques -- 6.3.9 Usefulness of the Physical Redundancy Technique in the State Analysis -- 6.3.10 General Evaluation of the Physical Redundancy (Knight and Leveson, 1986) Design Technique -- 6.4 The Functional Redundancy Resilience Technique -- 6.4.1 Functional Redundancy Statement -- 6.4.2 Reasoning Supporting the Functional Redundancy Resilience Technique -- 6.4.3 Functional Redundancy Statement and Sources -- 6.4.4 Acceptability of the Functional Redundancy Resilience Technique -- 6.4.5 Substantiation of the Functional Redundancy Resilience Technique by Case Studies.

6.4.6 Usefulness of the Functional Redundancy Resilience Technique -- 6.4.7 Usefulness of the Functional Redundancy Resilience Technique in Combination with Other Resilience Techniques -- 6.4.8 The Functional Redundancy Resilience Technique in the State Analysis -- 6.4.9 General Evaluation of the Functional Redundancy Resilience Technique -- 6.4.10 The Adaptability Attribute -- 6.4.11 Disruptions -- 6.5 The Drift Correction Resilience Technique -- 6.5.1 Dictionary Sources -- 6.5.2 Organizational Context -- 6.5.3 Physical Systems -- 6.5.4 Real-Time and Latent Drift Correction -- 6.5.5 Synthesized Statement -- 6.5.6 Reasoning Supporting the Drift Correction Resilience Technique -- 6.5.7 The Drift Correction Resilience Technique and its Sources -- 6.5.8 The Acceptability of the Drift Correction Resilience Technique -- 6.5.9 Substantiation of the Drift Correction Resilience Technique by Case Studies -- 6.5.10 Usefulness of the Drift Correction Resilience Technique -- 6.5.11 Usefulness of the Drift Correction Resilience Technique in Combination with Other Techniques -- 6.5.12 The Drift Correction Resilience Technique in the State Analysis -- 6.5.13 General Evaluation of the Drift Correction Resilience Technique -- 6.6 The Restructuring Resilience Technique -- 6.6.1 Dictionary Definition of Restructuring -- 6.6.2 Restructuring in the Literature -- 6.6.3 Restructuring Technique in the Adaptability Grouping -- 6.6.4 Restructuring in the Engineering Community -- 6.6.5 Synthesized Statement of the Restructuring Resilience Technique -- 6.6.6 Reasoning Supporting the Restructuring Resilience Technique -- 6.6.7 Summary of Sources of the Restructuring Resilience Technique -- 6.6.8 The Restructuring Resilience Technique Acceptability -- 6.6.9 Substantiation of the Restructuring Resilience Technique by Case Studies.

6.6.10 Usefulness of the Restructuring Resilience Technique -- 6.6.11 Dependency of the Restructuring Resilience Technique on Other Resilience Techniques -- 6.6.12 The Restructuring Resilience Technique in the State Analysis -- 6.6.13 General Evaluation of the Restructuring Resilience Technique -- 6.7 The Repairability Resilience Technique -- 6.7.1 Dictionary Definition -- 6.7.2 The Richards Definition -- 6.7.3 Synthesized Technique -- 6.7.4 Treatment of the Wounded as a Type of Repair -- 6.7.5 Repairability as an Adaptability Resilience Technique -- 6.7.6 Reasoning of the Repairability Resilience Technique -- 6.7.7 The Repairability Resilience Technique and its Sources -- 6.7.8 The Acceptability of the Repairability Resilience Technique -- 6.7.9 Substantiation of the Repairability Resilience Technique by Case Studies -- 6.7.10 Usefulness of the Repairability Resilience Technique -- 6.7.11 Dependency of the Repairability Resilience Technique on Other Techniques -- 6.7.12 The Repairability Resilience Technique in the State Model -- 6.7.13 General Evaluation of the Repairability Resilience Technique -- 6.8 The Human Involvement Resilience Technique -- 6.8.1 Dictionary Definitions -- 6.8.2 Billings on the Human Involvement Technique -- 6.8.3 The Human Involvement Resilience Technique in Case Studies -- 6.8.4 Synthesized Statement of the Human Involvement Resilience Technique -- 6.8.5 Reasoning Supporting the Human Involvement Resilience Technique -- 6.8.6 The Human Involvement Resilience Technique and its Sources -- 6.8.7 The Acceptability of the Human Involvement Resilience Technique -- 6.8.8 Substantiation of the Human Involvement Technique by Case Studies -- 6.8.9 Usefulness of the Human Involvement Resilience Technique -- 6.8.10 Usefulness of the Human Involvement Resilience Technique in Combination with Other Resilience Techniques.

6.8.11 Usefulness of the Human Involvement Resilience Technique in the State Analysis -- 6.8.12 General Evaluation of the Human Involvement Resilience Technique -- 6.9 The Reduce Hidden Interactions Resilience Technique -- 6.9.1 The Concept of Hidden Interactions -- 6.9.2 Synthesized Statement of the Reduce Hidden Interactions Resilience Technique -- 6.9.3 Reasoning Supporting the Reduce Hidden Interactions Resilience Technique -- 6.9.4 The Reduce Hidden Interactions Resilience Technique and its Sources -- 6.9.5 The Acceptability of the Reduce Hidden Interactions Technique -- 6.9.6 Substantiation of the Reduce Hidden Interactions Technique by Case Studies -- 6.9.7 Usefulness of the Reduce Hidden Interactions Resilience Technique -- 6.9.8 Dependency of the Reduce Hidden Interactions Resilience Technique on Other Techniques -- 6.9.9 The Reduce Hidden Interactions Resilience Technique in the State Analysis -- 6.9.10 General Evaluation of the Reduce Hidden Interactions Technique -- 6.9.11 The Tolerance Attribute -- 6.10 The Distributed Capacity Technique -- 6.11 The Neutral State Technique -- 6.12 The Loose Coupling Technique -- 6.13 The Layered Defense Resilience Technique -- 6.13.1 The Concept of Layered Defense -- 6.13.2 Synthesized Statement of the Layered Defense Resilience Technique -- 6.13.3 Reasoning Supporting the Layered Defense Resilience Technique -- 6.13.4 The Layered Defense Resilience Technique and the Tolerance Grouping -- 6.13.5 The Layered Defense Resilience Technique and its Sources -- 6.13.6 The Acceptability of the Layered Defense Resilience Technique -- 6.13.7 Substantiation of the Layered Defense Technique by Case Studies -- 6.13.8 Usefulness of the Layered Defense Resilience Technique -- 6.13.9 Dependency of Layered Defense on Other Resilience Techniques.