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Symbolic Context Model for Resilience Engineering

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Resilience can be defined as the ability of a system to adapt to changing contexts. To develop a better understanding of the concept of resilience and describe system resilience, it is more important to focus on a context’s characteristics than to discuss the definition of resilience itself. This study proposes a model to comprehend and describe a context’s characteristics, consisting of six a priori concepts: space, time, entity, event, state, and modality. Based on the model, this study also presents a way to formalize context. To demonstrate the model’s utility and partial validity, this paper provides examples of the reinterpretation and formalization of existing key concepts relating to human factors and resilience engineering based on the proposed model.

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Acknowledgments

This work was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 19H02384. We would like to thank Editage (www.editage.com) for English language editing.

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  1. The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Daichi Mitsuhashi, Taro Kanno, Kimitaka Asatani & Kazuo Furuta

  2. Electronic Navigation Research Institute, 7-42-23 Jindaiji-higashi-machi, Chofu, Tokyo, 182-0012, Japan

    Satoru Inoue

  3. Tohoku University, 6-6-11 Aramaki Aza Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi, 980-8572, Japan

    Daisuke Karikawa

  4. Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry, 2-6-1 Nagasaka, Yokosuka-shi, Kanagawa, 240-0196, Japan

    Kohei Nonose

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Mitsuhashi, D. et al. (2021). Symbolic Context Model for Resilience Engineering. In: Arezes, P.M., Boring, R.L. (eds) Advances in Safety Management and Human Performance. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 262. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80288-2_5

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