Resilience and Systems—A Review

Mayar, Khalilullah; Carmichael, David G.; Shen, Xuesong

doi:10.3390/su14148327

Cited by 19 publications

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“…Absorptive capacity refers to an organization's ability to identify, assimilate, and apply new knowledge. Another theoretical model rooted in systems theory is the resilience engineering framework (Mayar;Carmichael;Shen, 2022). This framework emphasizes the design of systems to be more resilient to disruptions and identifies four key resilience strategies: (1) prevention; (2) mitigation; (3) response; (4) Recovery.…”

Section: Port Resilience and Operationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a roadmap for implementing digital transformation to improve the resilience of port operations

Ferreira

2024

Inter. J. Sci. Manag. Tour.

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The aim of this study is to create a comprehensive guide for achieving operational resilience in port operations through digital transformation. Port activities face significant challenges on a global scale, stemming from the complexity of operations and the occurrence of undesirable events that can disrupt the continuity of operations. To understand the current practices of digital transformation for operational resilience, this study draws upon systems theory, resource-based theory, and dynamic capabilities theory as foundational frameworks. The "fit-for-purpose" methodology is employed to adapt the method (cross-referencing) and the approach (metanarrative) in order to align with the research objective. The findings reveal that a roadmap for digital transformation, with a focus on resilience, consists of three key narratives: (1) evaluation and planning, which involves identifying goals, strategies, acquiring resources, and establishing governance; (2) implementation, which includes testing and integrating new technologies, as well as training employees; and (3) monitoring and evaluation, which entails tracking and assessing progress, and making necessary adjustments. Furthermore, the effectiveness of these steps is contingent upon gradually scaling projects, prioritizing critical challenges, and obtaining support from stakeholders.

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Section: Port Resilience and Operationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing a roadmap for implementing digital transformation to improve the resilience of port operations

Ferreira

2024

Inter. J. Sci. Manag. Tour.

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“…This involved a crew member having to sprint across the deck in order to sound the much less powerful foghorn as close as possible to the approaching vessel [36] (pp. [1][2][3][4][5][6]. What this highly condensed summary of Hutchins example shows is that it is not only the material traits of affordances that are important to their functioning in social practices but, equally so, their functional traits and, further, how they connect with other elements of a practice.…”

Section: Resilience In Affordance-based Informationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The term resilience has gained prominence across various fields, including ecology [ 1 ], sociology [ 2 ], psychology and the material sciences (for a review, see [ 3 ]; the term traces its origins back to the Latin words resilientem and resilire , which mean ‘inclined to leap, spring or bounce back’ (cf. [ 3 ]). This characterization reflects a system’s ability to recover from an external disturbance and return to a stable state.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Informational Resilience in the Human Cognitive Ecology

Gahrn-Andersen

2023

Entropy

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Resilience is a basic trait of cognitive systems and fundamentally connected to their autopoietic organization. It plays a vital role in maintaining the identity of cognitive systems in the face of external threats and perturbances. However, when examining resilience in the context of autopoiesis, an overlooked issue arises: the autopoietic theory formulated by Maturana and Varela (1980) renders traditional Shannon information obsolete, highlighting that information should not be ascribed a role in cognitive systems in a general sense. This paper examines the current situation and suggests a possible way forward by exploring an affordance-based view on information, derived from radical cognitive science, which is exempted from Maturana and Varela’s critique. Specifically, it argues that the impact of social influence on affordance use is crucial when considering how resilience can manifest in informational relations pertaining to the human cognitive ecology.

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“…This underpins the lack of a unified and systematic treatment that addresses both perturbation and change under one umbrella. In this study, we apply our resilience system interpretation framework [31] to a building structure system. The framework advances a unified and cross-disciplinary resilience system interpretation that defines resilience in terms of adaptation and adaptive systems, where resilience can be obtained through both passive and active feedback structures demonstrated in the system state and form return abilities.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Resilience and Systems—A Building Structure Case Example

2023

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The resilience of building structures—as plain technical/physical/engineering systems or complex sociotechnical systems exposed to perturbations and change—has become increasingly important as natural disasters are on the rise and the world is changing rapidly. Existing resilience frameworks are focused mainly on the responses of building systems to perturbation events and their functional recovery, while change appears to be left out. This study applies the resilience system interpretation framework, which defines resilience in a cross-disciplinary environment as adaptation and adaptive systems, to analyze actual and conceptual building structure systems. The system framework, using modern control systems theory, defines resilience as the ability of the system state and form to return to their initial or other suitable states or forms through passive and active feedback mechanisms. A sample SMRF office building structure system is utilized to simulate the system state and form return abilities that are demonstrated by the system functional recovery time and functional recovery curve shape, respectively. This novel understanding of resilience accommodates a holistic and systematic integration of both perturbation and change in the portfolios of various building structures. The framework also provides a practical roadmap for resilience design and building of structures that effectively respond to perturbation while dynamically adapting to change in order to avoid obsolescence, as well as to increase the building’s useful life.

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Resilience and Systems—A Review

Cited by 19 publications

References 123 publications

Developing a roadmap for implementing digital transformation to improve the resilience of port operations

Developing a roadmap for implementing digital transformation to improve the resilience of port operations

Informational Resilience in the Human Cognitive Ecology

Resilience and Systems—A Building Structure Case Example

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