Chapter 6
Toward City Resilience: Complex Systems’ Resilience, Interdependence, and Simulation
Publication: Objective Resilience: Objective Processes
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This chapter investigates the importance and characteristics of system resilience. Literature on the topic of infrastructure systems interdependence and resilience is reviewed to establish meaningful definitions, classifications, and metrics that guide the research of complex systems modeling and resilience. The distinctions among resilience, risk, and vulnerability are detailed. Various resilience metrics are introduced to accurately quantify system resilience. Infrastructure systems interdependence is also discussed, and the different classifications of these systems are detailed. This chapter also introduces infrastructure systems simulation techniques and discusses tools for systems assessment and control.
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