One common characteristics of a complex system is its ability to
withstand major disturbances and the capacity to rebuild itself.
Understanding how such systems demonstrate resilience by absorbing
or recovering from major external perturbations requires both
quantitative foundations and a multidisciplinary view on the
topic.
This book demonstrates how new methods can be used to identify the
actions favouring the recovery from perturbations. Examples
discussed include bacterial biofilms resisting detachment,
grassland savannahs recovering from fire, the dynamics of language
competition and Internet social networking sites overcoming
vandalism.
The reader is taken through an introduction to the idea of
resilience and viability and shown the mathematical basis of the
techniques used to analyse systems. The idea of individual or
agent-based modelling of complex systems is introduced and related
to analytically tractable approximations of such models. A set of
case studies illustrates the use of the techniques in real
applications, and the final section describes how one can use new
and elaborate software tools for carrying out the necessary
calculations.
The book is intended for a general scientific audience of readers
from the natural and social sciences, yet requires some mathematics
to gain a full understanding of the more theoretical
chapters.
It is an essential point of reference for those interested in the
practical application of the concepts of resilience and
viability
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