Description:
This book covers new methods of identifying ways to help complex systems recover from perturbations. Examples discussed include bacterial biofilms resisting detachment, savannahs recovering from fire, and Internet social networking sites overcoming vandalism.
Review Quotes:
From the reviews:
"In this book, a consortium of researchers ... suggested measures to formalize the concept of resilience by following viability theory, which can also be extremely useful to design management policies in different environments. ... To sum up, this book is highly recommended to scientists from a wide range of disciplines dealing with complex agent-based systems, where some of the main issues are the calculation of stability of the non-equilibrium states and the robustness under some disturbances." (Albert Diaz-Guilera, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, April, 2012)