Architecting Resilient Systems

Chapter 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
• • 1.14 What Is a Technique?
• • 1.15 How Statements of Resilience Techniques are Synthesized

Chapter 2: Resilience Literature

Chapter 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
• • 3.5 General features
• • 3.6 Glossary of Symbols and Mathematical Characters

Chapter 4: Resilience Abstractions

• • 4.1 Objective
• • 4.2 What Is System Resilience?
• • 4.3 Traditional Definitions of Resilience
• • 4.4 Encounter
• • 4.5 Abstraction Properties
• • 4.6 Concrete Entities

Chapter 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

Chapter 6: Techniques

• • 6.1 The Robustness Attribute
• • 6.2 The Absorption Design Technique
• • 6.3 The Physical Redundancy Design Technique
• • 6.4 The Functional Redundancy Resilience Technique
• • 6.5 The Drift Correction Resilience Technique
• • 6.6 The Restructuring Resilience Technique
• • 6.7 The Repairability Resilience Technique
• • 6.8 The Human Involvement Resilience Technique
• • 6.9 The Reduce Hidden Interactions Resilience Technique
• • 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
• • 6.14 The Internode Interaction Technique
• • 6.15 The Complexity Technique

Chapter 7: Case Studies

Chapter 8: State Model

Chapter 9: Organizational Factors

• • 9.1 Loose Coupling in Organizational Systems
• • 9.2 Observability Plus Decisions
• • 9.3 Organizational Decision-Making
• • 9.4 Informed Operator

Chapter 10: Culture

• • 10.1 The Culture Management Rule
• • 10.2 The Cultural Change Rule

Chapter 11: Executing Resilience

Chapter 12: Governance

• • 12.1 Inspecting in Quality
• • 12.2 Independent Reviews
• • 12.3 Governance and Culture
• • 12.4 A Three-Tiered View of Technical Reviews
• • 12.5 System-Level Review
• • 12.6 Foreign Object Debris (FOD)
• • 12.7 Responsibilities for Governance
• • 12.8 Resilience Node
• • 12.9 Program System Resilience Team
• • 12.10 Program Management

Chapter 13: Infrastructure

• • 13.1 The Architecture of an Infrastructure System
• • 13.2 Operational View
• • 13.3 Organizational View
• • 13.4 The Organization and Latent Conditions
• • 13.5 The Integrated Product Team (IPT) Concept
• • 13.6 Infrastructure Architecting
• • 13.7 The Infrastructure as a System of Systems
• • 13.8 Network-Based Infrastructures

Chapter 14: Cost

• • 14.1 Miracle on the Hudson
• • 14.2 Space Shuttle Flights
• • 14.3 New York Power Restoration
• • 14.4 Summary

Chapter 15: A Summary of Themes

• • References

Chapter 16: A Final Word

• • 16.1 The Challenges

Chapter Appendix A: Resilience of a Fire Protection System

Chapter Appendix B: Resilience of Metrolink 111

Chapter Appendix C: Resilience Architecting -- A Review