Title
A Dimensionless Graceful Degradation Metric for Quantifying Resilience
Abstract
Many self-* properties are variations on the same theme: resilience of a system to changes in itself or the conditions under which it operates. Quantifying resilience is difficult, however: there are no metrics of resilience that are readily comparable across systems, and the space of possible changes is typically prohibitively large. To address this problem, I propose a quantitative measure of graceful degradation that is independent of the units, scales, and number of system parameters. Although this metric is typically intractable to compute precisely, it can be approximated by perturbation surveys, and the quality of approximation is likely to be improved by a random perturbation approach based on recent advances in manifold learning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/SASOW.2012.24
Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
dimensionless graceful degradation metric,manifold learning,system parameter,recent advance,graceful degradation,possible change,quantitative measure,quantifying resilience,random perturbation approach,perturbation survey,perturbation analysis,learning artificial intelligence,random processes
Psychological resilience,Perturbation theory,Computer science,Stochastic process,Theoretical computer science,Fault tolerance,Artificial intelligence,Nonlinear dimensionality reduction,Perturbation (astronomy),Dimensionless quantity,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1949-3673
978-1-4673-5153-9
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
4
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jacob Beal1474.39