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Modeling Social Resilience: Questions, Answers, Open Problems

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  • FRANK SCHWEITZER

    (Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland†Complexity Science Hub, Vienna, Austria)

  • GEORGES ANDRES

    (Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

  • GIONA CASIRAGHI

    (Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

  • CHRISTOPH GOTE

    (Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland‡Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

  • RAMONA ROLLER

    (Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

  • INGO SCHOLTES

    (��Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland§Chair of Computer Science XV, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany)

  • GIACOMO VACCARIO

    (Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

  • CHRISTIAN ZINGG

    (Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Abstract

Resilience denotes the capacity of a system to withstand shocks and its ability to recover from them. We develop a framework to quantify the resilience of highly volatile, non-equilibrium social organizations, such as collectives or collaborating teams. It consists of four steps: (i) delimitation, i.e. narrowing down the target systems, (ii) conceptualization, i.e. identifying how to approach social organizations, (iii) formal representation using a combination of agent-based and network models, (iv) operationalization, i.e. specifying measures and demonstrating how they enter the calculation of resilience. Our framework quantifies two dimensions of resilience, the robustness of social organizations and their adaptivity, and combines them in a novel resilience measure. It allows monitoring resilience instantaneously using longitudinal data instead of an ex-post evaluation.

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  • Frank Schweitzer & Georges Andres & Giona Casiraghi & Christoph Gote & Ramona Roller & Ingo Scholtes & Giacomo Vaccario & Christian Zingg, 2022. "Modeling Social Resilience: Questions, Answers, Open Problems," Advances in Complex Systems (ACS), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 25(08), pages 1-50, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:wsi:acsxxx:v:25:y:2022:i:08:n:s021952592250014x
    DOI: 10.1142/S021952592250014X
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    Cited by:

    1. Ambra Amico & Luca Verginer & Giona Casiraghi & Giacomo Vaccario & Frank Schweitzer, 2023. "Adapting to Disruptions: Flexibility as a Pillar of Supply Chain Resilience," Papers 2304.05290, arXiv.org.
    2. Huiping Wang & Qi Ge, 2023. "Spatial association network of economic resilience and its influencing factors: evidence from 31 Chinese provinces," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-14, December.

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