To realize more sustainable and resilient urban social-ecological systems, there is great need for active engagement from diverse public agencies, non-profit organizations, businesses, natural resource managers, scientists, and other actors. Cities present unique challenges and opportunities for sustainability and resilience, as issues and organizations are frequently intertwined in networks of...

Humans are very capable of solving many scientific and engineering problems, but during the solution process they have a tendency to make mistakes. For example, humans without computer aided tools, would not be able to design VLSI chips larger than 100 transistors. This imperfection of humans make them very unreliable elements in resilient control systems. There is a tendency of replacing human...

This paper describes the results of applying artificial neural networks to the double dummy bridge problem. Several feedforward neural networks were trained using resilient backpropagation algorithm to estimate the number of tricks to take by players NS in fully revealed contract bridge deals. Training deals were the only data presented to the networks. The best networks were able to perfectly ...

A Resilient Transport System for Wireless Sensor Networks Chieh-Yih Wan This thesis contributes toward the design of a new resilient transport system for wireless sensor networks. Sensor networks have recently emerged as a vital new area in networking research, one that tightly marries sensing, computing, and wireless communications for the first time. Wireless sensors are embedded in the real ...

The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has had an impact on the relationships established between different actors in organisations. To deal with these changes, it is necessary to develop a resilience capacity that allows for establishment of patterns through new management model. application circularity principles implies radical change stakeholder relations, breaking “end-of-life” concept existing l...

This paper introduces the concept, theory of operation and applications soft open points for direct current networks (DCSOPs). The DCSOP is based on a bidirectional DC–DC converter actively controlled to behave like normal conductor. Unlike conductor, can transfer electric power between nodes at different voltage levels. With this advantage, effectively control flow direction. Thus, DCSOPs play...