63rd ESReDA Seminar: Resilience assessment

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Research in the resilience of infrastructure systems has constantly been increasing during the past decade and is expected to continue to grow. Although the term resilience was not uncommon in 19th-century material science, the current meaning of “system resilience” is rooted in 1970s research in ecology.

Self-repairable computer systems, developed in the same decade for space and defence applications, are examples of resilience applications in engineering. Following the significant evolution of resilience applications in the domain of technical systems in the past two decades, the term resilience entered the policy domain in January 2023, when the Directive on the Resilience of Critical Entities (CER Directive) went into force replacing the 2008 Critical Infrastructure Directive.

The 63^rd ESReDA seminar (European Safety, Reliability & Data Association) addresses two fundamental elements:

• The methodological development of resilience assessment from a conceptual framework to modelling approaches
• The metrics for resilience assessment and development of quantitative tools for decision making

The seminar offers a forum for exploring the above points, stimulating discussions on theories, concepts and experiences of resilience assessment methodologies and applications.

The aim is to encourage new ideas, scientific and conceptual papers, case studies and cross-sectoral research on the topic with examples and applications of infrastructures exposed to both technological and natural hazards and threats, such as:

• Disruptions of infrastructures due to ageing or random failures
• Natural disasters
• Intentional attacks or man-made hazards
• Emerging threats (e.g. hybrid)