Resilience is an Emergent System Property: A Partial Argument
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چکیده
Systems are collections of objects exhibiting joint behaviour. Sometimes this behaviour is anticipated, sometimes not. We have studied a number of types of complex systems and their failures, including electricity supply grids, motorways, the financial system, and air traffic control. We argue that the resilience properties of such systems are largely emergent. We illustrate the thesis through analysis of three electricity blackout events. We consider one event in detail and two others summarily.
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