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Designing resilient and economically viable water distribution systems: a multi-dimensional approach

open access: yesResilient Cities and Structures, 2023
Enhancing the resilience of critical infrastructure systems requires substantial investment and entails trade-offs between environmental and economic benefits.
Beatrice Cassottana   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trust as a Metric for Resiliency in Signed Social Networks

open access: yesCoRR, 2021
Recent technological advancements have resulted in a surge in online trading, raising severe concerns about theft and fraud, especially on platforms like Bitcoin OTC (over-the-counter), where users' identities remain anonymous. To mitigate the risk, it has become essential to capture the reputation of users based on their trade histories.
Harsh M. Patel   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Integrating diversity and agency into social-ecological resilience metrics

open access: yesEcology and Society
Resilience is an increasingly popular concept in research and practice, but quantitative resilience analyses are often disconnected from resilience theory.
Vitor Hirata Sanches   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of diversity, reserve margin and system structure on retail electricity tariffs in Kenya

open access: yesHeliyon, 2020
Electricity bills in Kenya have been an issue of concern to electricity consumers in the recent past. Highly volatile oil prices and unprecedented weather fluctuations have acted as significant shocks for electricity generation, influencing electricity ...
Cohen Ang'u   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Algorithm Diversity for Resilient Systems

open access: yes, 2019
Diversity can significantly increase the resilience of systems, by reducing the prevalence of shared vulnerabilities and making vulnerabilities harder to exploit.
A Avizienis   +10 more
core   +1 more source

An approach to the multidimensional assessment of food security and environmental sustainability: a vulnerability framework for the Mediterranean region [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Poster presented at First International Conference on Global Food Security.
Prosperi, P.   +4 more
core   +5 more sources

The influence of resilience-based management on coral reef monitoring: A systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
With rapid changes taking place on coral reefs, managers and scientists are faced with prioritising interventions that might avoid undesirable losses in ecosystem health.
Vivian Y Y Lam   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Survey on Centrality Metrics and Their Implications in Network Resilience

open access: yesCoRR, 2020
Main paper: 36 pages, 2 figures.
Zelin Wan   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Quantifying Coral Reef Resilience to Climate Change and Human Development: An Evaluation of Multiple Empirical Frameworks

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2021
The integrity of coral reefs has increasingly been threatened by human development and climate change. As a result, the concept of ecological resilience – an ecosystem's capability to resist and recover from environmental stressors – has become an ...
Ashley H. Y. Bang   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

A conceptual framework for resilience: fundamental definitions, strategies and metrics [PDF]

open access: yesComputing, 2020
AbstractThe resilience system property has become more and more relevant, mainly because of the increasing dependance on a rapidly growing number of software-intensive, complex, socio-technical systems, which are facing uncertainty about changes they are expected to experience during their life-cycle and ways to deal with them.
Andersson, Jesper   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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