Preface
What I consider to be the strongest point of this work, indeed its main advantage is
the extension of the winning strategy of military pilots to a multimodal complex: “If
your action leads to the unexpected, step back and play anew.” To recognize that
there is a hierarchy of response options and then choose the least obvious sequence,
yet the one leading to survival is a human miracle. To apply this consistently to an
array of systems run by different algorithms is new engineering. Contrary to our
experiences with autonomous and semi-autonomous multimodular systems, we can
avoid creating irreconcilable paradoxes (shutdowns or tonal failures.) In fact, they
can be resisted if our causational design logic is augmented (or replaced) with an
interactive-transformation-interactive approach. This changes our thinking from
compensating for some top-down hierarchy of (event) causes to enabling response
“negotiation” across and between all system modules. One way to view the
Resilient System Theory is to recognize that it can resist unacceptable outcomes by
negotiating multiple options to resolve multiple conflicts at multiple levels. The
introduction of “system resilience” requires nonlinear logic and redistributed
capacity for flexible coordination and re-coordination of internal regime conditions
and parameters. From this perspective, the survival of a multimodal complex is
achieved not by insisting on the maximum recovery from losses in or of its key
component(s) but on achieving a total system response and behavior with at least
minimally optimal integration and recovery under a variety of disorienting, disabling, or dysfunctional conditions. The resilience theory of Prof. Schagaev and his
colleagues promises to integrate this conceptual framework into a radically purposeful engineering-design framework. Boris Gorbis Los Angeles.
Stevenage, UK
Igor Schagaev
Kazan, Russia
Eugene Zouev
Kaegi Thomas
v
What I consider to be the strongest point of this work, indeed its main advantage is
the extension of the winning strategy of military pilots to a multimodal complex: “If
your action leads to the unexpected, step back and play anew.” To recognize that
there is a hierarchy of response options and then choose the least obvious sequence,
yet the one leading to survival is a human miracle. To apply this consistently to an
array of systems run by different algorithms is new engineering. Contrary to our
experiences with autonomous and semi-autonomous multimodular systems, we can
avoid creating irreconcilable paradoxes (shutdowns or tonal failures.) In fact, they
can be resisted if our causational design logic is augmented (or replaced) with an
interactive-transformation-interactive approach. This changes our thinking from
compensating for some top-down hierarchy of (event) causes to enabling response
“negotiation” across and between all system modules. One way to view the
Resilient System Theory is to recognize that it can resist unacceptable outcomes by
negotiating multiple options to resolve multiple conflicts at multiple levels. The
introduction of “system resilience” requires nonlinear logic and redistributed
capacity for flexible coordination and re-coordination of internal regime conditions
and parameters. From this perspective, the survival of a multimodal complex is
achieved not by insisting on the maximum recovery from losses in or of its key
component(s) but on achieving a total system response and behavior with at least
minimally optimal integration and recovery under a variety of disorienting, disabling, or dysfunctional conditions. The resilience theory of Prof. Schagaev and his
colleagues promises to integrate this conceptual framework into a radically purposeful engineering-design framework. Boris Gorbis Los Angeles.
Stevenage, UK
Igor Schagaev
Kazan, Russia
Eugene Zouev
Kaegi Thomas
v