Resilience

Date = January 23, 2014
tags <ESM102>

Resiliency is the ability of a system to adjust to and cope with stresses and return to normal functioning.

• not just resistance to stress
• doesn't have to return to exactly the same condition

A measure of resilience is how far the system can be stressed and still return to normal functioning. A "ball and cup" metaphor is often used for this.

Resiliency would be the distance that the ball can move and still return to it's original spot.

stable
metastable
edge of threshold