Towards resilient structures

Towards Lean and Resilient Production

This paper presents issues and tradeoffs in attempting to achieve lean production by increasing productivity and reducing costs and waste while at the same time operating with resilience in the face of disruptions. A simple mathematical model of the operation of a production system is proposed, which incorporates two types of disruptive events: resource breakdowns and quality loss. The model is...

Towards Fault Resilient Global Arrays

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Towards Sybil-resilient P2P Networks

Recently, Sybil attack has become one of the most visible security problems in the peer to peer networks where it is not possible to depend on trusted authorities for admission control or maintenance. In such networks or in any open distributed systems, an adversary creates many fake identities in order to increase its influence and deny service to honest participants. Defending against this at...

Towards Time-resilient MIR Processes

In experimental sciences, under which we may likely subsume most research areas in MIR, repeatability is one of the key cornerstones of validating research and measuring progress. Yet, due to the complexity of typical MIR experiments, ensuring the capability of re-running any experiment, achieving exactly identical outputs is challenging at best. Performance differences observed may be attribut...

Towards a resilient political system