Who: Vincenzo De Florio, University of Antwerpen – http://win.uantwerpen.be/~vincenz/
When: Friday November 14th 2014, 11:00 AM
Where: Meeting room B31, Building B (3rd floor), Inria Lille
Abstract: Vincenzo will discuss resilience as the behavior resulting from the coupling of a system and its environment(s). Depending on the interactions between these two “ends” and on the quality of the individual behaviors that they may exercise, different strategies may be chosen: elasticity (change masking); entelechism (change tolerance); and antifragility (adapting to & learning from change). When the environment is very simple and only capable of so-called “random behavior”, often the only effective strategy towards resilience is off-line dimensioning of redundancy as a result of a worst-case assessment of disturbances and/or threats. Much more complex and variegated is the case when both systems and environments are “intelligent” — or at least able to exercise complex teleological and extrapolatory behaviors. In this case both system and ambient may choose among a variety of strategies in what could be regarded as a complex evolutionary game theory setting.
