January 03, 2004
A term that comes up
A term that comes up quite a lot in the study of complex systems is 'robustness' - basically the propensity of a system not to fail. For example the north eastern American electricity grid showed it wasn't very robust when it failed in the summer of 2003. The Santa Fe Institute have got a programme up and running on what robustness means for social systems.
Posted by Paul Miller at January 3, 2004 12:54 PM
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