Abstract
Resilience is the ability to prepare for, absorb, and recover rapidly from
naturally occurring and intentional events. Over the past decade, a
substantial body of research worldwide has been accumulated that ranges
from modeling of individual facilities for better performance to network
models with interdependencies across nodes; and even inter-sector
dependencies that provide dependencies across physical systems. More
recently full community- and regional-level models have been realized that
contain interacting physical, social, and economic systems to enable
risk-informed decision support. In this mini-symposium, a series of (at
least) three sessions is proposed that explore the application of
resilience models for decision support at different scales. Presentations
are invited that focus on individual networks and systems such as water
networks, transportation systems, and building clusters including how a
decision is informed; cross-dependent models; full community- and
regional-level modeling; and interdisciplinary analyses that encompass
social and economic theory and data. The presentations will be organized
to begin the symposium at the detailed and complex-model level of the
individual systems to inform decisions, followed by increasing levels of
scale with (presumably) decreased levels of resolution or complexity until
the entire community and regions are modeled and provide risk-informed
decision support. Presentations focusing on all hazards are welcome
including (but not limited to) climate change, earthquake, tornado, flood,
hurricane/typhoon, wildfire, and human-induced events; all approaches from
physics- and processed-based (e.g. discrete event simulation) to
data-driven (e.g. machine learning) are welcome.