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Human Systems-of-Systems, a Methodology and Measurement Framework for Community Resilience

Authors:
Tom McDermott

Keywords: community resilience; resilience measurement; human analytics; systems-of-systems; sociotechnical systems

Abstract:
Community resilience, which focuses in on combined social and technical measures of resilience, continues to receive a great deal of attention in literature. A large number of frameworks have been developed that attempt to combine physical measures of place with measures reflecting social interaction as the basis for predictive measurement of the resilience of a community, including one from the authors. These frameworks form the basis for development of human analytics, particularly to help understand community resilience in the mitigation and preparation phases prior to disruptive events. However, very few examples of actual measurement programs are in place, and even fewer that use dynamic measures of human and social resilience. This paper builds on a methodology for characterizing human communities as systems-of-systems (SoS), and proposes the development of active community resilience analytics that track the continuing resilience of a community. This is a multi-scale problem, and the SoS framework is critical to development of a measurement architecture that reflects both long-term and short-term human resilience measures.

Pages: 49 to 53

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2018

Publication date: June 24, 2018

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2519-8351

ISBN: 978-1-61208-648-4

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2018 to June 28, 2018