Resilience is widely accepted by research communities, industry and politics as a desirable system property for cyber-physical systems. However, there exist no scalable and flexible metrics for resilience that are specific to cyber-physical systems (CPS) and consider the multi-dimensional nature of performance in these systems. In this work, we present first results towards a framework to design such a resilience metric. The key values of this framework are threefold: First, it allows to evaluate resilience with respect to different performance dimensions. Further, unnecessary complexities of the system can be deliberately left out of the metric to answer specific questions about the system. Finally, it supports the identification of causes for low resilience to improve the system design.
resilience, metric, CPS, cyber-physical system, recovery potential, absorbing potential