Technological Resilience Deconstructed

doi:10.1109/TTS.2025.3578873

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Technological Resilience Deconstructed

2025-12-01

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Lindsay Robertson *

DOI：10.1109/TTS.2025.3578873

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Within the context of a technology-dependent society, the importance of concepts of resilience is well-accepted. The original definition of resilience was very simple and it is unsurprising that, as the term has been applied to progressively more complex fields, the original definition has expanded. Within the many and complex fields in which resilience has been considered, expanded definitions of resilience and metrics of resilience have been proposed by several authors, yet other authors have noted that none of these definitions are widely accepted. This analysis does not propose an alternative definition nor an alternative metric. Rather, this paper identifies and codifies several concepts that are commonly entangled within the concept of resilience. The significance of a particular capability, described as that which is sufficient and necessary to repair/replace failed subsystems, has been identified as an embedded but poorly-studied concept. The study of such a capability including the study of its scope-overlap with operational systems, its distinct vulnerabilities and its effect on the actual resilience of technological systems, is evaluated and shown to be both essential and inadequately studied.

Keywords:

Resilience

Robustness

Systematic literature review

System performance

Sociotechnical systems

Redundancy

Measurement

Training

Supply chains

Springs

Resilience system